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[soulsynapse]

Fascinating read.

 

 

http://www.nature.co...icles/srep29828

 

Edit: nature.com seems to be down, article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm...les/PMC4964563/

 

What this means as ant keepers, for species that are known to by polygyne within certain areas, the evolutionary pressure is that cofounding increases success of the founding stage, and successful founding + double or more reproduction capacity allows them to outcompete other ants

 

So the ants of a specific species that isn't always polygyne, that are likely to be polygyne, will live in areas with very high density of the same species.

Edited by soulsynapse, February 22 2017 - 10:12 AM.

[antgenius123]

Wow, cool I had a Monomorium colony a few years ago and I noticed that more queens were wandering about the same area I had placed my colony. I suspect they were atteacted by the pheremones the colony was giving off.

[soulsynapse]

Updated with an unbroken link to the article, nature.com seems to be down or something