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Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant. [1] Their colonies are polydomous (consisting of multiple nests) and polygynous (containing multiple reproducing queens).
Towards the end of the 1950s, Edward O. Wilson defined substances that trigger the alarm and burrowing behavior of ants as chemical releaser. [24] In 1961, the British biochemist Robert Kenneth Callow identified another pheromone, also known as the queen bee pheromone, with the compound ( E )-9-oxo-dec-2-enoic acid , or 9-ODA for short. [ 25 ]
Pharaoh ants use a positive feedback system of foraging. Each morning, scouts will search for food. When one finds it, it will immediately return to the nest. This causes several ants to follow the successful scout's trail back to the food source. Soon, a large group will be upon the food.
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Top: An ant in Mozambique Bottom: An ant-mimicking spider, Myrmarachne Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms; it has evolved over 70 times. Ants are abundant all over the world, and potential predators that rely on vision to identify their prey, such as birds and wasps, normally avoid them, because they are either unpalatable or aggressive.
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Despite their dominance among ants, a number of animals are known to prey on meat ants. The short-beaked echidna ( Tachyglossus aculeatus ) is a prominent predator of the meat ant, mostly due to the high fat levels in virgin queens: [ 109 ] These queens can contain almost 47% fat, and when no queens are available after an attack, an echidna may ...