Cuticular Hydrocarbon Pheromones for Social Behavior and Their Coding in the Ant Antenna

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Ants make their own ant-ibiotic for infected wounds

Arstechnica, 15 Jan 2024

Help me out here Ants have a gland that makes an antibiotic, and use it in response to pheromones.

Smells Like Queen Spirit

Technology.org, 18 Aug 2017

Queen ants spend most of their time having babies. To reign supreme in a colony, they exude a special scent, or pheromone, on…

La importancia del olfato en la capacidad de las hormigas para distinguir entre compañeras e intrusas — Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (Amazings® / NCYT®)

NCYT - Noticias de la Ciencia y la Technologia, 30 Nov 2015

Las hormigas han intrigado a los científicos desde hace mucho tiempo, por ser un fascinante ejemplo de cooperación estrecha y…

Absurd Creatures: The Caterpillar That Freaks Out if You Yell at It

Wired.com, 02 Oct 2015

In the rainforests of Peru there lurks a caterpillar that doesn’t appreciate people yelling at it.

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