It was a relaxing antidote to the hyperstimulating theme park experience: no crowds, no merchandise booths, no imitation castles, and the only mouse ears in sight belong to
Podomys floridanus, the Florida mouse.
Sundews (Drosera capillaris) cover their leaves in a sticky mucous to trap insects and consume them with digestive enzymes, whereas the spiders (
Sosippus floridanus) weave dense webs.
In Florida carpenter ants (
Camponotus floridanus), most workers are either big, brawny majors (right) or small, active minors (left).
Camponotus
floridanus, the Florida carpenter ants fighting here — one has locked its mandibles on the other's antenna — share something else with humans: their homes.
To see whether trophallaxis plays a role in ant communication, LeBoeuf and her colleagues collected the trophallactic fluid of Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus
floridanus).