Foragers of several species of stingless bees deposit pheromone spots in the vegetation to guide recruited nestmates to a rich food source. Recent studies have shown that Trigona and Scaptotrigona workers secrete these ...

Although wind is a ubiquitous component of ecological systems and might affect pheromone communication, its effects have not been studied in depth. To test whether wind impacts trail pheromone behaviour, we studied the ...

Meers Oppenheim and his colleagues from Boston University, Peru's Jicamarca Radio Observatory (JRO), and Los Alamos National Laboratory now offer an alternative approach that has its origins in another 50-year-old technique. ...

During foraging, worker ants are known for making use of many information sources to guide themselves in external environments, especially individual (memory) and social (trail pheromone) information. Both kinds of information ...

Foraging trails of leaf-cutting ants may be exposed to plant material that interferes with foragers’ flux either by physically blocking it or due to secondary metabolites which affect insect behavior. We hypothesized that ...

During foraging, thousands of leaf-cutting ant workers travel along high traffic foraging trails which, when narrow, reduce the leaf delivery rate due to the reduction in workers’ travel-speed. On the other hand, high ...

The use of trails as environment subject to visitation, enabling the dissemination of information about each ecosystem has increased in recent years. The present study aimed to develop educational activities aimed at ...

Ecological trails are spaces and geographical paths of great historical, cultural and environmental importance. However, studies that cover adequate planning in relation to the construction of these trails are scarce, ...

The soybean crop (Glycine max. (L.) Merril) shows strong participation in the Brazilian economy. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to quantify the losses in the cutting and feeding platform and in the trail system ...