How social insects recognise dead nestmates

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 14:07 in Biology & Nature

When an ant dies in an ant nest or near one, its body is quickly picked up by living ants and removed from the colony, thus limiting the risk of colony infection by pathogens from the corpse...

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