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Interspecific Eavesdropping on Ant Chemical Communication

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Chemical communication is a fundamental, highly complex component of social insect societies. Ants in particular employ a remarkable diversity of chemical signals to maintain social cohesion among nestmates, gain essential resources through coordinated ...
Rachelle M. M. Adams   +6 more
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Six new species of ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
uploaded from antbase via ...
Sharaf, Mostafa R.   +3 more
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Contribution of a DNA barcode to an assessment of the specificity of ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Corsica

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2020
We used the COI marker, the most popular DNA barcode for the animal kingdom, to assess the taxonomic status of Corsican populations of eight groups of species of ants that occur both on Corsica and the European mainland. (i) In two groups, we detected no
Rumsaïs BLATRIX   +5 more
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Taxonomy of the Crematogaster degeeri-species-assemblage in the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We revise the species-level taxonomy of the Crematogaster (Crematogaster) degeerispecies-assemblage, a group of related ants occuring in Madagascar and the wider Malagasy region, and further provide an identification key to all species-groups of the ...
Bonnie B. Blaimer   +4 more
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All sugars ain't sweet: selection of particular mono-, di- and trisaccharides by western carpenter ants and European fire ants

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
Ants select sustained carbohydrate resources, such as aphid honeydew, based on many factors including sugar type, volume and concentration. We tested the hypotheses (H1–H3) that western carpenter ants, Camponotus modoc, seek honeydew excretions from ...
Asim Renyard   +6 more
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Ants as shell collectors: notes on land snail shells found around ant nests [PDF]

open access: yesMalacologica Bohemoslovaca, 2009
We investigated the shell collecting activities of harvester ants (Messor spp.) in semi-arid grasslands and shrubs in Turkey. We found eleven species of snails in the area, two of them were not collected by ants.
Barna Páll-Gergely, Péter Sólymos
doaj   +1 more source

Distribution of Finnish mound-building Formica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on using a citizen science approach

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2021
The distance from southern Italy to Denmark is about the same as the length of Finland from south to north. A study of the biogeography of insects, such as ants, would take a lot of effort and funding to sample the whole area.
Jouni SORVARI
doaj   +1 more source

Ants of the genus Protalaridris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), more than just deadly mandibles

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2018
The ants of the genus Protalaridris are revised based upon their morphology. Seven species are recognized; the type species (P. armata Brown, 1980) and six species described as new: P. aculeata Lattke & Alpert, sp. n., P.
John E. LATTKE   +3 more
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Ants of Greece – additions and corrections (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
uploaded by Plazi / http://www.biologia.uni.wroc.pl ...
Salata, Sebastian, Borowiec, Lech
core   +1 more source

Establishment of ant communities in forests growing on former agricultural fields: Colonisation and 25 years of management are not enough (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2008
Ants are often considered as good indicators of change of management in different habitats. They have been used sporadically to evaluate large scale transformations involving reafforestation.
Wouter DEKONINCK   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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