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Study - Sanitary care by social ants shapes disease outcome

Started By StopSpazzing , Jan 17 2020 2:13 PM

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#1 Offline StopSpazzing - Posted January 17 2020 - 2:13 PM

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https://phys.org/new...se-outcome.html

What do you guys think?

> Ant Keeping Wiki is back up! Currently being migrated from old wiki.

Looking to adopt out: Crematogaster sp. (Acrobat Ants) colonies

#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 17 2020 - 4:19 PM

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The pic says Linepithema humile but its L. inqiuum...

#3 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted January 17 2020 - 10:43 PM

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Wish it described what ants do with the stuff they groom off each other. Do they spit it out? Digest it? Anyone know?

Formiculture Journals::

Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale; Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#4 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 18 2020 - 4:22 PM

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I always thought the debris just 'fell to the floor', but I could most certainly be wrong.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

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