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Ants Sense, and Follow, Trail Pheromones of Ant Community Members

Ants deposit trail pheromones that guide nestmates to food sources. We tested the hypotheses that ant community members (Western carpenter ants, Camponotus modoc; black garden ants, Lasius niger; European fire ants, Myrmica rubra) (1) sense, and follow, each other’s trail pheromones, and (2) fail to...

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Autores principales: Chalissery, Jaime M., Renyard, Asim, Gries, Regine, Hoefele, Danielle, Alamsetti, Santosh Kumar, Gries, Gerhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6921000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31683791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects10110383