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M C Cammaerts1, J C Verhaeghe1, R Cammaerts1
1Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et Cellulaire, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue F. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Behavioural Processes
|June 14, 2014
Abstract:
In Tetramorium impurum, an ethological factor can be found on workers' last visible abdominal sternite. For a short time, it attracts ants, increases their linear speed and enhances the efficiency of the trail pheromone. This factor is not colony-specific but may play a role in the foraging and recruiting systems of the species.
