Evidence of intercolonial food exchange in fire ants and other Myrmicinae,using radioactive phosphorus |
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| Authors: | A. P. Bhatkar |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, 32611 Gainesville, Florida, USA;(2) Present address: Institut für Angewandte Zoologie der Universität Bonn, An der Immenburg I, D-5300 Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Abstract: | Summary Food exchange occurred as an appeasement response in distant ant colonies ofSolenopsis invicta, S. geminata, andPheidole dentata. More regurgitated radioactive fluid was given to major workers than to minors by the donors from the alien colonies of these species. |
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