Enemy Specification in the Alarm-Recruitment System of an Ant

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  • Edward O. Wilson
    Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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<jats:p> Many kinds of ants use odor trails to recruit nestmates to food discoveries and new nest sites; minor workers of the myrmicine <jats:italic>Pheidole dentata</jats:italic> also use them to recruit major workers ("soldiers") to the vicinity of intruders. This newly discovered alarm-recruitment system has proved to be narrowly specific. Only fire ants and other members of the genus <jats:italic>Solenopsis</jats:italic> , which include some of the potentially most dangerous enemies of <jats:italic>Pheidole</jats:italic> , have been found to evoke the response when present as single scouts or small invading forces. The glandular source of the <jats:italic>Pheidole</jats:italic> trail pheromone and the cues by which <jats:italic>Pheidole</jats:italic> recognize Solenopsis have been experimentally determined. </jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 190 (4216), 798-800, 1975-11-21

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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