• The winter ants -- named for their unusual ability to function in cold weather, rather than grind to a halt like most insects -- manufacture a poison in a gland in their abdomen that they dispense when under extreme duress. (sciencedaily.com)
  • He has dedicated his laboratory to investigating the molecular basis underlying complex social behavior among insects. (rockefeller.edu)
  • Ants are useful for the study of the behavior of social insects. (carolina.com)
  • Ants are some of the most fascinating and complex insects in the world. (knowitall.org)
  • Modifying genes essential for sensing pheromones in ants resulted in the insects' displaying deficiencies in social behaviors and reduced ability to survive within a colony. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Creepy-cool description of emergent behavior in ant colonies - complex survival strategies that develop when relatively dumb individual insects interact with each other in surprisingly complex ways. (setonhill.edu)
  • During these past weeks of lockdown, I have been rediscovering some books dedicated to the social insects and their organizations with clearly defined roles and rules for each individual. (metricstream.com)
  • The parallel with our human organizations and societies is far too complex and different, but the social insects' responses to crisis situations has some aspects that, I think, deserve attention. (metricstream.com)
  • Some positive learnings can be shared by the social insects, and especially by the colonies' behavior of ants, bees and termites. (metricstream.com)
  • Unfortunately, our global reaction was not strictly coordinated and fast like the one social insects are able to apply. (metricstream.com)
  • The second common strategy of social insects could be defined as "restoring" that contributes to creating a real sanitary cordon around the colony is that of the disposal of waste and corpses. (metricstream.com)
  • In the future, I want to explore more deeply the foraging, searching, and cooperation strategies used by different social insects evolved in different ecological niches, develop more automated tools to study behavior, understand the quantitative rules of behavior, and expand my study to other social animals, especially dogs. (harvard.edu)
  • Wilson draws parallels between the ants and other social insects with which he's intimately familiar and cooperative behavior in humans. (the-scientist.com)
  • Some Insects Are Very Social. (motherjones.com)
  • As with humans, fending off disease can be a tall order for social insects-a category that includes termites, ants, and many species of bees and wasps. (motherjones.com)
  • The insects are "living in very confined environments where there's a lot of microbial load," said Rebeca Rosengaus, a behavioral ecologist who studies social insect behavior at Northeastern University in Boston. (motherjones.com)
  • While social insects have been the subject of intense scientific scrutiny for more than a century, the threat of pathogens and other parasites, researchers say, was long overlooked. (motherjones.com)
  • Observers of social insects have long known that the animals keep their homes meticulously clean. (motherjones.com)
  • Social insects groom each other, and often themselves, frequently. (motherjones.com)
  • In future studies, the researchers aim to refine their theoretical model by interfering with more parameters - such as tempering the level of pheromones in the ants' enclosures or creating genetically altered ants with different abilities to detect temperature changes - and observing how the insects respond. (earth.com)
  • Like many other social insects living in colonies , turtle ants specialize for different functions, often evolving exaggerated features suited to their job. (futurity.org)
  • This new insight into the behavior of social insects is the latest discovery to emerge from a 20-year field study of red harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) in the southern Arizona desert - a project designed and led by Deborah M. Gordon. (straddle3.net)
  • From insects to mammals, the creatures that inhabit gardens engage in a variety of social interactions that range from cooperation to competition, communication, and even symbiosis. (kenamea.com)
  • Ants are social insects, living in highly organized colonies with specific roles and responsibilities. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Our controlling algorithm is based on the pheromone communication of social insects such as ants. (intechopen.com)
  • Social insects demonstrate remarkable behavioral flexibility in response to complex external and social environments. (bvsalud.org)
  • Neuropeptides, the brain's most diverse group of messenger molecules, play an essential role in modulating this phenotypic plasticity related to labor division in social insects. (bvsalud.org)
  • This review summarizes recent advances in the characterization, expression, distribution, and functions of neuropeptides in controlling behavioral plasticity in social insects, particularly bees and ants. (bvsalud.org)
  • Colonies of real army ants always have only one queen, while some other ant species can have several queens. (wikipedia.org)
  • These tiny creatures are known for their remarkable social behavior and their ability to build intricate underground colonies. (knowitall.org)
  • Back in the lab, Mlot deposited colonies of 500 to 8,000 ants in large beakers. (setonhill.edu)
  • From their extraordinary social behavior to their intricate underground colonies, ants never cease to amaze. (scetv.org)
  • Their capacity to adapt and create sustainable colonies in the most disparate environments has demonstrated a major differentiator among other species where the social collaboration has not been developed. (metricstream.com)
  • Given that she infects ant colonies with deadly pathogens and then studies how they respond, one might say that Nathalie Stroeymeyt, a senior lecturer in the school of biological sciences at the University of Bristol in the UK, specializes in miniature pandemics. (motherjones.com)
  • The high-performance computers she uses to track ant behavior sat idle, and only a lab technician-deemed an essential worker-was permitted to tend to the lab's hundreds of black garden ant colonies, each housed in its own plastic tub. (motherjones.com)
  • Some ant colonies are as populous as New York City. (motherjones.com)
  • That rarely happens, social insect researchers say, and vast colonies of such species are somehow able to limit the spread of contagions. (motherjones.com)
  • To what extent were things like ant colonies and beehives actually tiny epidemic states? (motherjones.com)
  • When temperatures are rising, ant colonies need to make collective decisions . (earth.com)
  • By developing a new experimental setup to rigorously analyze decision-making in ant colonies, the researchers discovered that when a colony evacuates its nest due to rising temperatures, its decision is a function of both the magnitude of the heat increase and the size of the colony. (earth.com)
  • The scientists exposed ant colonies of 36 workers and 18 larvae to rising temperatures, and found that, when the temperature exceeded 34 degrees Celsius, the ants evacuated their nest. (earth.com)
  • This paper reports the main results of a research project about the division of labour in laboratory colonies of the fungus-growing ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa . (bvsalud.org)
  • Implications of these results to the understanding of the mechanisms of labour organization in ant colonies are discussed, and directions for further experimental investigations on the topic are suggested. (bvsalud.org)
  • I will further show how colonies amplify the limited cognitive capacity of single ants and how they evade certain irrational consequences of individual choice. (colostate.edu)
  • an army ant colony moves almost incessantly over the time it exists. (wikipedia.org)
  • Spatial distribution of ant workers and, notably their aggregation/segregation behaviour, is a key-element of the colony social organization contributing to the efficiency of task performance and division of labour. (researchgate.net)
  • Within Formica , the capacity for dependent colony foundation and temporary social parasitism arose once from a facultatively polygynous, independently colony founding ancestor. (biorxiv.org)
  • Within this parasitic clade, dulotic social parasitism evolved once from a facultatively temporary parasitic ancestor that likely practiced colony budding frequently. (biorxiv.org)
  • Permanent social parasitism evolved twice from temporary social parasitic ancestors that rarely practiced colony budding, demonstrating that obligate social parasitism can originate from different facultative parasitic backgrounds in socially polymorphic organisms. (biorxiv.org)
  • These social immune defenses include both mechanisms that increase the prevention of disease transmission, and mechanisms that are activated when pathogens have already invaded the colony. (metricstream.com)
  • In any case, the common feature of all these defense mechanisms is that they are based on altruistic behavior or collective actions that provide advantages at the colony level and, only rarely, for the individual. (metricstream.com)
  • We pioneered an approach to understand the ant colony as a cognitive-like system that perceives inputs and then translates them into behavioral outputs," said study senior author Daniel Kronauer, an expert in Social Evolution and Behavior at Rockefeller. (earth.com)
  • Surprisingly though, if the size of the colony was larger - about 200 individuals - the ants only evacuated the nest when temperatures rose to 36. (earth.com)
  • Peer into the deep recesses of an ant colony and you'll discover an extremely well organized community with thousands of workers quietly going about their jobs. (straddle3.net)
  • The waxy outer surface of an ant's body contains about 25 different hydrocarbons, which emit slightly different odors that are imperceptible to people, but to an ant provide important information about life in the colony. (straddle3.net)
  • Much like a single animal, a colony of ants can evaluate its surroundings, process information, and make decisions. (colostate.edu)
  • Find out what it's like to be part of an ant colony or survive in the chilly ocean waters of a tide pool and the scorching sun. (sdnhm.org)
  • Hymenoptera are social creatures that typically sting to protect their colony, nest, or hive. (medscape.com)
  • They've spread into Mediterranean and subtropical climates across the globe in sugar shipments from Argentina, and no native ant species has been known to withstand their onslaught -- until now. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A group of Stanford University undergraduate students working on a class project have discovered that a native species, the plucky winter ant, has been using chemical warfare to combat the Argentine tide. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This is the first well-documented case where a native species is successfully resisting the Argentine ant," said Deborah M. Gordon, a biology professor at Stanford who specializes in studying ants and taught the three-week summer class in which the students first saw the winter ants wielding their poison. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Some native ant species that eat seeds have coevolved with certain native grasses and other plants to become a crucial part of the plant's propagation by carrying the seeds to new areas. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Without the native ant species to spread their seeds, the grasses can't flourish. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The name army ant (or legionary ant or marabunta) is applied to over 200 ant species in different lineages. (wikipedia.org)
  • All species are members of the true ant family, Formicidae, but several groups have independently evolved the same basic behavioural and ecological syndrome. (wikipedia.org)
  • its common name "army ant" is considered to be the archetype of the species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aenictini contains more than 50 species of army ants in the single genus, Aenictus. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2003, though, genetic analysis of various species suggests that several of these groups evolved from a single common ancestor, which lived approximately 100 million years ago at the time of the separation of the continents of Africa and South America, while other army ant lineages (Leptanillinae, plus members of Ponerinae, Amblyoponinae, and Myrmicinae) are still considered to represent independent evolutionary events. (wikipedia.org)
  • These three traits are found in all army ant species and are the defining traits of army ants. (wikipedia.org)
  • We investigated the ability of the tropical social wasp Polybia occidentalis to recognize local species of scouting-and-recruiting ants by their odor. (bioone.org)
  • Following contact with these ants, however, some of the individuals responded defensively to the odor of these ant species, showing that wasps can learn the odor of ants. (bioone.org)
  • Some ant species may go about this with more sophistication than others. (flowingdata.com)
  • The Holarctic ant genus Formica is ideally suited for studying the evolution of social parasitism because half of its 176 species are confirmed or suspected social parasites, which includes all three major classes of social parasitism known in ants. (biorxiv.org)
  • In contrast to inquiline ant species in other genera, the high social parasite diversity in Formica likely originated via allopatric speciation, highlighting the diversity of convergent evolutionary trajectories resulting in nearly identical parasitic life history syndromes. (biorxiv.org)
  • In doing so, he suggests that social evolution, not just natural selection, was key to humans becoming the rapacious, ubiquitous, contemplative, introspective species we are today. (the-scientist.com)
  • Usually, you would think that once a species is specialized, it's stuck in that very narrow niche," says Daniel Kronauer, head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior at Rockefeller University. (futurity.org)
  • The shape and size of a turtle-ant soldier's head is dictated by the type of tunnel the species in question occupies. (futurity.org)
  • To examine the evolutionary journey of various head shapes, the researchers grouped 89 species of turtle ants based on whether soldiers sported a square-, dome-, disc-, or dish-shaped head. (futurity.org)
  • They also included a group of turtle-ant species that don't have soldiers. (futurity.org)
  • Some species, such as the gregarious German cockroach , have an elaborate social structure involving common shelter, social dependence, information transfer and kin recognition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers used Camponotus fellah (carpenter ants) as a model species to perform behavioral tracking and ribonucleic acid-sequencing (RNA-seq) to study the transcriptome-level differences between socially isolated workers versus workers in groups. (news-medical.net)
  • The life cycle duration varies depending on the ant species and environmental conditions. (knockoutpest.com)
  • New York is home to various ant species, each with its own distinct characteristics and behaviors. (knockoutpest.com)
  • The army ant syndrome refers to behavioral and reproductive traits such as obligate collective foraging, nomadism and highly specialized queens that allow these organisms to become the most ferocious social hunters. (wikipedia.org)
  • While my broad interest lies in the behavior of social animals in general, my main research interests are centered around the basic rules and evolutionary basis of decision-making on an individual and collective level. (harvard.edu)
  • Some ants, for example, harvest antimicrobial tree resins and spread them around their nests, a process researchers have described as " collective medication . (motherjones.com)
  • To me it seemed like the luminescent bacteria were using chemical signals to communicate and coordinate light production, an expensive collective behavior. (shawprize.org)
  • Thus, ants combine sensory information with the parameters of their group in order to arrive at a collective response - a process similar to how neural networks in the brain give rise to decisions. (earth.com)
  • According to the scientists, pheromones - the invisible chemical messengers that pass information among ants - play a crucial role in structuring this collective behavior. (earth.com)
  • Insect societies are the leading examples of collective cognition by social groups. (colostate.edu)
  • In this talk I will show how individual behavioral rules and communication networks allow many poorly informed ants to make effective collective decisions. (colostate.edu)
  • My work consists of developing differential equations based models for biosystems and materials that predict the emergence of collective behavior and result in dramatic changes in the system's effective properties. (csuohio.edu)
  • A new study illuminates the biology that guides behavior across different stages of life in worms, and suggests how variations in specific neuromodulators in the developing nervous system may lead to occasional variations. (rockefeller.edu)
  • In this week's blog post, we're going to dive into the fascinating world of ants, shed light on their biology, and explore the behavior patterns that make them common household pests. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Studying the behavioral and life history transitions from a cooperative, eusocial life history to exploitative social parasitism allows for deciphering the conditions under which changes in behavior and social organization lead to diversification. (biorxiv.org)
  • Subtle changes in the concentration of these relatively simple chemicals can produce very important and profound behavioral changes in ants," Greene noted. (straddle3.net)
  • A team of researchers from the Rockefeller University has found that, in such situations, ants as a group behave similar to networks of neurons in the brain. (earth.com)
  • citation needed] Originally, some of the Old World and New World lineages of army ants were thought to have evolved independently, in an example of convergent evolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the life-history transitions associated with the evolution of social parasitism in this genus are largely unexplored. (biorxiv.org)
  • To test competing hypotheses regarding the origins and evolution of social parasitism, we reconstructed the first global phylogeny of Formica ants and representative formicine outgroups. (biorxiv.org)
  • By incorporating social and biological science in his theory of humanity's evolution, Wilson also inches closer to his El Dorado, his Holy Grail-the realization of consilience, that grand unifying of knowledge to arrive at the ultimate truth of our existence. (the-scientist.com)
  • If evolution was a one-way path, the first turtle ants that appeared some 45 million years ago should have lacked soldiers altogether, then gradually evolved toward specialization-starting with the generalist, square-headed soldiers, all the way to those with highly-tailored dish heads. (futurity.org)
  • Reference: "Trait evolution is reversible, repeatable, and decoupled in the soldier caste of turtle ants" by Scott Powell, Shauna L. Price and Daniel J. C. Kronauer, 9 March 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . (scitechdaily.com)
  • Here, we design an agent-based model (ABM) to explore the temporal evolution of agents' objective knowledge and perceived competence in a social setting allowing for knowledge exchange. (santafe.edu)
  • We were able to find clear evidence that joining groups, and coming to identify with them, can alleviate depression," says Haslam, a member of CIFAR's Social Interactions, Identity & Well-Being (SIIWB) program. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Even complex behavior may be coordinated by relatively simple interactions," he says. (flowingdata.com)
  • Ants do not tell each other what to do when they meet, she emphasized: "What seems to matter to an ant is the pattern of interactions it experiences rather than a particular message or signal transferred at each interaction. (straddle3.net)
  • Cognition emerges from a network of interacting ants, just as individual cognition emerges from interactions among neurons in the brain. (colostate.edu)
  • While this phenomenon has been studied across several diverse domains of knowledge in individual independent settings, relatively few studies have examined how people's abilities and perceived competence may vary over time and with social interactions. (santafe.edu)
  • In the seemingly tranquil setting of a garden, a bustling ecosystem of animal interactions unfolds, revealing intricate social behaviors that contribute to the balance and dynamics of the natural world. (kenamea.com)
  • Communication is a cornerstone of social interactions in gardens. (kenamea.com)
  • Predator-prey interactions add an element of both tension and ecological balance to garden animal behavior. (kenamea.com)
  • Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50 million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. (nature.com)
  • One of the most striking examples of this adaptability is the context-dependent division of labor among workers of bees and ants. (bvsalud.org)
  • Leah Kuritzky marks the trail of some of the winter ants she and her fellow student researchers studied on the Stanford campus. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Bees are helping researchers to uncover genes responsible for social behaviors, including social deficits associated with ASD. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Researchers have identified 200 new gene variations linked to social behaviors, with 21 clustered in or nearby 6 genes implicated in autism. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • University sophomores studying ants in a summer course discovered that the local ants were using poison to kill invading Argentine ants. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Karen B. London and Robert L. Jeanne "Wasps Learn to Recognize the Odor of Local Ants," Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 78(2), 134-141, (1 April 2005). (bioone.org)
  • Get ready to delve into the fascinating world of ants and gain a deeper understanding of their importance in maintaining a healthy and vibrant environment. (scetv.org)
  • But turtle ants are an interesting case of a very dynamic evolutionary trajectory, with a lot of back and forth. (futurity.org)
  • Growing up surrounded by several domestic and wild animals on a rural farm in India (where electricity used to be a luxury), I got hooked on animal behavior early on in my life - a free, never-ending source of amazement. (harvard.edu)
  • My interest in animal behavior led me to get my undergraduate and master's degrees in zoology, and eventually my Ph.D. in animal behavior. (harvard.edu)
  • We were looking at the nest openings of the winter ants and one day it was just winter ants going about their business foraging for food and making trails -- just typical ant behavior," said Leah Kuritzky, a student in the class and one of the coauthors of the PLoS ONE paper. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Army ants do not have a permanent nest but instead form many bivouacs as they travel. (wikipedia.org)
  • An ant scout (in black) which has found a food source (a), lays a pheromone odor trail on its way back to the nest (b). (researchgate.net)
  • The mechanism of social immunity develops mainly at two different levels, the first, which we could define as "preventive", includes all those strategies that tend to keep any parasites and pathogens out of the nest. (metricstream.com)
  • While each ant feels the heat rising beneath its feet, they carry along as usual, until they suddenly reverse course, with the whole group evacuating their nest. (earth.com)
  • The scientists found that, when a parade of patroller ants returns to the nest, their distinctive body odor cues other workers to go out and forage for food. (straddle3.net)
  • Turtle ant soldiers defend the entrance of their nests with elaborate armors: their heads. (futurity.org)
  • These larger ants tunnel through wood to create nests, potentially weakening the integrity of wooden structures. (knockoutpest.com)
  • If you suspect you have a carpenter ant infestation, be sure to look for sawdust-like frass near nests and the presence of winged swarmers near the wooden components of your home. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Such communication mechanisms enhance the cohesion of social groups and ensure efficient information sharing. (kenamea.com)
  • This Handbook explores the complex relationship between marketing and social responsibility, with a focus on marketing as a driver for CSR initiatives. (e-elgar.com)
  • Complexity science aims to quantitatively describe and understand the adaptive, evolvable and thus hard-to-predict behaviors of complex systems. (santafe.edu)
  • Odorous house ants are attracted to sugary and greasy substances, often found in kitchens and food storage areas. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Pavement ants are attracted to a wide range of food sources, including crumbs, grease, and sugary substances, which is why they are often found in kitchens and pantries. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Because of their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as "raids", a huge number of ants forage simultaneously over a limited area. (wikipedia.org)
  • There's a whopping four-fold difference between the smallest and largest turtle ant soldier heads," says lead author Scott Powell, a biologist at George Washington University. (futurity.org)
  • It is hard to identify the behavior of creatures just from their fossils. (icr.org)
  • Turtle ant soldiers look like real-life creatures straight out of a Japanese anime film. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The discovery provides new insight into the war between the local "winter ants" and the South American invaders who have shown up everywhere from California to South Africa. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The relationship between turtle-ant heads and tunnels can hence offer a uniquely clear insight into natural selection. (futurity.org)
  • however, army ants dispatch a cooperative, leaderless group of foragers to detect and overwhelm the prey at once. (wikipedia.org)
  • The focus of the sociology major is to prepare students with the methodological background and analytical skills necessary for working in today's world, while allowing students to gain a basic understanding of a variety of areas within sociology such as social stratification, criminology, social psychology and comparative sociology. (uwlax.edu)
  • Observing and understanding these behaviors not only enhances our appreciation for the natural world but also underscores the importance of preserving these ecosystems for future generations to enjoy and learn from. (kenamea.com)
  • If you're a homeowner battling with these persistent pests, understanding their life cycle and behavior can help you combat their infestations effectively. (knockoutpest.com)
  • The article concludes with a discussion of future directions and challenges in understanding the regulation of social behavior by neuropeptides. (bvsalud.org)
  • A protein transferred from male to female mosquitoes during sex influences female mating behavior-a phenomenon that could be exploited to limit the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like Zika and dengue. (rockefeller.edu)
  • Sociology is the study of human groups and how the group influences social behavior. (uwlax.edu)
  • They instead apply their knowledge to nearly limitless career opportunities where empathy, insights about social influences, and research and analytical skills are valued. (uwlax.edu)
  • We used 3- social and community influences (4). (cdc.gov)
  • Ants use chemicals the way we human beings use sight and sound. (straddle3.net)
  • The next sections provide a brief survey of ant patterns showing strong analogies and properties with that of SO patterns in physico-chemical systems. (researchgate.net)
  • Likewise, ant patterns may change abruptly and orient spontaneously to one of them depending on fluctuations and initial conditions. (researchgate.net)
  • Table 1 lists all ant patterns in which a strong self-organizing component was identified-or at least highly suspected to occur-and indicates the presumed mode of interaction responsible for the emergence of such structures. (researchgate.net)
  • Patterns of social interaction in society can influence lives both positively and negatively. (uwlax.edu)
  • They have been demonstrated and are recognized as the more resilient social organisms, able to adapt to extremely hard environments and to react to disruptive crisis situations. (metricstream.com)
  • Educational programs that promote mental and physical health can help young people - particularly in environments of chronic stress and trauma exposure - learn healthy coping strategies, avoid risky behaviors, and succeed in school. (news-medical.net)
  • Argentine ants have been declared agricultural pests in California because of the damage they do to citrus crops. (sciencedaily.com)
  • To effectively control ant infestations, it's crucial to understand how they gain access to your home. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Since many individuals in these countries remain at risk of infection, post-exposure healthcare-seeking behaviors are crucial in preventing infection and warrant examination. (cdc.gov)
  • Building a strong connection to a social group helps clinically depressed patients recover and helps prevent relapse, according to a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This paper proposes a model for the qualitative adaptation of psychometric instruments in developing-country settings and presents a case study of the adaptation of 3 internationally recognized instruments in Pakistan: the Child Behavior Checklist, the Youth Self-Report and the Teacher's Report Form. (who.int)
  • If you live in a Mediterranean climate, the Argentine ant is the ant in your kitchen," Gordon said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The ants, in turn, feed on the sugar-rich liquid that the aphids excrete, "quaintly called honeydew," Gordon said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The Stanford students began observing the native ants as part of a 2008 short summer class for sophomores called Ecology of Invasions , taught by Gordon. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The soldiers of army ants are larger than the workers, and they have much larger mandibles than the worker class of ants, with older soldiers possessing larger heads and stronger mandibles than the younger ones. (wikipedia.org)
  • Turtle ant soldiers scuttle around sporting shiny, adorably oversized heads. (futurity.org)
  • At Knockout Pest Control, we offer comprehensive residential ant control services tailored to the unique needs of New York homeowners. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Contact Knockout Pest Control today to schedule a professional ant control estimate. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Embedded in the existence of a highly structured organization is the common-but erroneous-belief of a social leader such as the queen centralizing information and issuing commands to workers. (researchgate.net)
  • While past research has looked at the importance of social connections for preventing and treating depression, it has tended to emphasize interpersonal relationships rather than the importance of a sense of group identity. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The mainstream social insect research has ignored parasites for a very long time," said Paul Schmid-Hempel, an experimental ecologist at the Swiss public research university ETH Zurich. (motherjones.com)
  • Tracy Dennison's research examines the intersection of social, economic, and political history through a focus on serfdom in pre-modern eastern Europe. (caltech.edu)
  • Research on the determin- level hierarchical linear models with child as level 1, household as ants of overweight and obesity has evolved from conceptual mod- level 2, and municipality as level 3. (cdc.gov)
  • Ants, for example, are renowned for their highly organized social structures. (kenamea.com)
  • I also came under the spell of EO Wilson the famous social ant biologist. (shawprize.org)
  • One pheromone, isoamylacetate, has been isolated as a mediator of aggressive group-defensive behaviors in Africanized bees. (medscape.com)
  • Sociology helps us understand how society works and exposes hidden structures of authority and power that can change social outcomes. (uwlax.edu)
  • That yummy honeydew is what brings the Argentine invaders and the winter ants into conflict, as winter ants also tend aphids. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We show that all agents tend to overestimate their social rankings but that the strength of this effect depends on individuals' objective skills. (santafe.edu)
  • The incredible floating fire ant -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. (setonhill.edu)
  • via The incredible floating fire ant - The Washington Post . (setonhill.edu)
  • Simple Summary The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) is a highly invasive pest that causes significant damage to human health, agriculture, and biodiversity. (researchgate.net)
  • And since a hand-me-down tunnel might be too big or too small, Kronauer says, the ants diversify rapidly to be able to occupy it. (futurity.org)
  • From a practical point of view, the identification of self-organizing processes in ant societies ideally requires a two-ways approach coupling behavioural experiments and modelling. (researchgate.net)
  • Similar bifurcation phenomena are observed in ant societies which may abruptly shift from a disordered to an ordered pheromone-based foraging [9] or from a random exploration to a well-defined exploratory trail [42]. (researchgate.net)
  • A distinguished scholar of European demography and Russian serfdom, she examines the rules and norms that shaped people's decisions in pre-modern societies, from marriage and household formation to economic and social behavior. (caltech.edu)
  • Once the ant agent detects an idle robot, it occupies that robot and generates the pheromone agent to attract other ant agents to the location for neighbor robots. (intechopen.com)
  • currently, I am exploring how ants find food (and back home) using olfactory cues. (harvard.edu)
  • It's also the reason why ant infestations seemingly pop up out of nowhere over the tiniest crumb or kitchen counter spill. (knockoutpest.com)
  • Male birds, like the vibrant peacock, showcase extravagant displays to attract females, a behavior driven by sexual selection. (kenamea.com)