Sentences with word «nestmates»
Entomologists from the University of California, Riverside, found that Argentine ants could detect dead nestmates before decomposition could have taken hold.
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One possibility, Rudolph says, is that fighting changes the odors ants use to distinguish nestmates from potential invaders.
Ants: «I'm Not Dead Yet» Ants are notoriously efficient undertakers, carrying off dead nestmates before the corpses can infect the colony with their pathogens.
Those include: the presence of different castes, including queen ants and workers; groups of worker ants in single pieces of amber, probably nestmates foraging together; and two workers of different ant species engaging in combat.
One kind of buccaneering ant carries its wounded nestmates home — so they can live to fight another day
Honeybees pick up dead or diseased nestmates and drag them out of the hive.
«For global invasion, Argentine ants use chemical weapons: Compounds produced by Argentine ants are used to recruit nestmates and incapacitate opponents.»
They use these compounds not only for incapacitating the opponent, but also for calling more nestmates from nearby locations for their help in combat,» Choe said.
As soon as a bee ball was formed in the hive, we placed the bee ball in a beaker to separate the workers forming the bee ball from the other nestmates.
Undertaker honeybees get rid of the bodies of dead nestmates, but only those with a good sense of smell are able to do it
To the casual observer, most songbirds appear monogamous; DNA testing, however, reveals that anywhere from 10 % to 75 % of females cheat on their nestmates, depending on the species.
In the other 6, however, the sperm count spiked in at least one egg, showing that the females had received sperm from males other than their nestmates.
Because this route is the first to be doubly marked with pheromone, nestmates are attracted to it.
They then perform what we have termed «destructive disinfection,» the killing of the sick animal and the fungus, to prevent the pathogen becoming contagious and spreading to nestmates,» explains Sylvia Cremer.
She also found that wasps appear to use facial patterns to distinguish among their nestmates.