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Waste of leaf-cutting ants: disposal, nest structure, and abiotic soil factors around internal waste chambers
(2017-06-01)
Leaf-cutting ants produce large quantities of waste that harbor bacteria and fungi that are harmful to the colony. To be protected from these pathogens, the workers of Atta species present a sophisticated organization to ...
Nest Architecture Development of Grass-Cutting Ants, Atta capiguara (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
(Soc Brasileira Entomologia, 2020-01-01)
Atta capiguara grass-cutting ants are commonly found in the Cerrado biome, in open fields. Although grass-cutting ants build giant nests, little has been elucidated about this building pattern and when chambers and tunnels ...
Nest Architecture and Colony Growth of Atta bisphaerica Grass-Cutting Ants
(Mdpi, 2020-11-01)
Simple Summary Atta bisphaerica grass-cutting ants build giant nests with hundreds or thousands of large chambers. Here, we assessed whether the total volume of fungus chambers and other nest parameters grow at close or ...
Comparação entre parâmetros externos e internos de ninhos de Atta bisphaerica Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
(2002-12-01)
Six Atta bisphaerica, Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) nests were excavated with the aim of studying the relationship between area and volume of the mound, the total volume and total number of chambers in the nest. ...
Comparação entre parâmetros externos e internos de ninhos de Atta bisphaerica Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
(2002-12-01)
Six Atta bisphaerica, Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) nests were excavated with the aim of studying the relationship between area and volume of the mound, the total volume and total number of chambers in the nest. ...
The nest architecture of the ant, Pheidole oxyops Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera : Formicidae)
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007-10-01)
Pheidole oxyops builds subterranean nests, with an external architecture that is distinctive and easily recognizable by its wide and specific entrance hole, measuring up to 12.2 cm in diameter, denoting a pitfall-trap. In ...
The nest architecture of the ant, Pheidole oxyops Forel, 1908 (Hymenoptera : Formicidae)
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007-10-01)
Pheidole oxyops builds subterranean nests, with an external architecture that is distinctive and easily recognizable by its wide and specific entrance hole, measuring up to 12.2 cm in diameter, denoting a pitfall-trap. In ...
Appetitive and aversive learning of plants odors inside different nest compartments by foraging leaf-cutting ants
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2018-08)
Cues inside the nest provide social insect foragers with information about resources currently exploited that may influence their decisions outside. Leaf-cutting ants harvest leaf fragments that are either further processed ...
First-year nest growth in the leaf-cutting ants Atta bisphaerica and Atta sexdens rubropilosa
(Univ Estadual Feira Santana, 2015)
First-year nest growth in the leaf-cutting ants Atta bisphaerica and Atta sexdens rubropilosa
(Univ Estadual Feira Santana, 2015)