Interactions Increase Forager Availability and Activity in Harvester Ants

Interactions Increase Forager Availability and Activity in Harvester Ants

Social insect colonies use interactions among workers to regulate collective behavior. Harvester ant foragers interact in a chamber just inside the nest entrance, here called the 'entrance chamber'. Previous studies of the activation of foragers in red harvester ants show that an outgoing...

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Main Authors: Pless, Evlyn (Author), Queirolo, Jovel (Author), Pinter-Wollman, Noa (Author), Crow, Sam (Author), Mathur, Maya B. (Author), Gordon, Deborah M. (Author), Allen, Kelsey Rebecca (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2016-01-04T14:45:36Z.
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