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Do your ants post door guards at night?

Started By futurebird , Jul 4 2021 10:01 PM

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#1 Offline futurebird - Posted July 4 2021 - 10:01 PM

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I find this behaviour fascinating. How do they manage it with pheromones? 

 


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#2 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 4 2021 - 11:40 PM

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I find this behaviour fascinating. How do they manage it with pheromones?

Yes mine do! I assume it's by marking an alarm pheromone on the entrance of the nest. However only my Pheidole parva do this and quite seldom.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.
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