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M. schencki is parasitized by Phengaris rebeli larvae, which release chemicals that trick the ants into believing that the butterfly larvae are ant larvae and should be brought back to the ant brood. [1] In the ant nest, the P. rebeli larvae and pupa are able to mimic the sound that the queen of the ant colony makes, causing the ants to ...
Myrmica is a genus of ants within the subfamily Myrmicinae. [2] It is widespread throughout the temperate regions of the Holarctic and high mountains in Southeast Asia. [2] [3]The genus consists of around 200 known species and additional subspecies, [2] although this figure is likely to rise as soon as the Chinese and Nearctic fauna lists are revised.
Pheromones are of two main kinds: primer pheromones, which generate a long-duration change in the insect that receives them, or releaser pheromones, which cause an immediate change in behaviour. [1] Primers include the queen pheromones essential to maintain the caste structure of social Hymenopteran colonies; they tend to be non-volatile and ...
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Therefore, once the P. rebeli begin to mimic the sound of the queen ant, the worker ants begin to treat the P. rebeli as if it were the queen ant. [16] On the other hand, the queen ant treats the P. rebeli larvae and pupae as if they were rivals, as she is the only one in the colony that recognizes that the P. rebeli larvae are not ant larvae.
Myrmica americana ; Scientific classification ... Myrmica americana is a species of ant in the family Myrmicinae. [1] [2] [3 ... Text is available under the Creative ...
Pharaoh ant eyesight is poor and they possess on average 32 ommatidia. [6] The antennal segments end in a distinct club with three progressively longer segments. Males are about 3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 in) long, black, winged (but do not fly). Queens are dark red and 3.6–5.0 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 16 in) long. They initially have wings ...
Manica rubida can reach a length of 5–9 millimetres (0.20–0.35 in) in workers, of 9.5–13 millimetres (0.37–0.51 in) in queens, of 8–10 millimetres (0.31–0.39 in) in males. [4] Workers are reddish brown, slender, usually with a darker head. Thorax and abdomen are very shiny and the abdomen is darker at the rear end.