Sentences with phrase «types of worker ants»
Meet the supersoldiers The species collected in New York, Pheidole morrisi, normally has two types of worker ants, according to Abouheif: minor workers, which are responsible for foraging, nursing, feeding eggs and larvae, and taking care of the queen; and soldier ants, which defend the nest and use their big mandibles to crack seeds harvested by the minor workers.
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But these previous studies looked at average levels of methylation within a sample of each insect type — taking, for instance, a group of worker ants, mixing their DNA together, and measuring the average amount of methylation among all their brains.
That means that nurse ants must be selectively feeding larvae the hormone, depending on what type of adult workers the colony needs, LeBoeuf says.