Ant fight!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 05:42 in Biology & Nature

A group of 'friend or foe' scent molecules have been isolated from colonies of Argentine ants. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology identified and synthesised the scents, describing how applying them to worker ants resulted in attacks from their former colony-mates...

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