Atta cephalotes or leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) exhibit strong polymorphism over the life span of a single colony. This polymorphism effects foraging efficiency and is linked to overall social complexity. In this study, I quantified the degree of variance in head size and femur length in six colonies, as well as presence of a soldier class, and compared these results to the relative size of each nest as determined by a survey of foraging intensity. It was found that variance in the head and femurs and the presence of soldiers was significant different between small and large colonies, and this was related to increasing colony size. Atta cephalotes o zompopas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) exhiben el polimorfismo fuerte sobre la vi...
A large nest of Myrmecia brevinoda (with a soil mound 70 cm tall) contained 2576 workers and 1 queen...
Army ants are superefficient in their retrieval of prey. There are four distinct worker castes in E...
This study aimed to verify age polyethism occurrence in medium-sized (cephalic capsule = 2.3 ± 0.21 ...
Atta cephalotes or leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) exhibit strong polymorphism over the ...
C. atriceps ants have shown exponential growth in anthropic environments. Under laboratory condition...
Journal ArticleWorker size polymorphism in colonies of Veromessor pergandei, a granivorous desert an...
Abstract: In eusocial insects, worker polymorphism is shaped by several factors, including colony si...
Polymorphism is the existence of multiple phenotypes within a given species in a population. In soci...
Optimal foraging models have been utilized extensively in the analysis of foraging behavior. Applie...
The evolution of polyandry is a general problem in behavioral ecology that has attracted particular ...
Several species of leaf-cutter ants, including Atta cephalotes, exhibit an interesting behavior of h...
Like traditional organisms, eusocial insect societies express traits that are the target of natural ...
An organism can adapt to its environment physiologically, behaviorally, and morphologically, but bio...
The proportion of foragers in ant colonies is a fairly constant species-specific characteristic that...
Atta cephalotes is one of the few species that does better in grassy pastures and secondary growth a...
A large nest of Myrmecia brevinoda (with a soil mound 70 cm tall) contained 2576 workers and 1 queen...
Army ants are superefficient in their retrieval of prey. There are four distinct worker castes in E...
This study aimed to verify age polyethism occurrence in medium-sized (cephalic capsule = 2.3 ± 0.21 ...
Atta cephalotes or leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) exhibit strong polymorphism over the ...
C. atriceps ants have shown exponential growth in anthropic environments. Under laboratory condition...
Journal ArticleWorker size polymorphism in colonies of Veromessor pergandei, a granivorous desert an...
Abstract: In eusocial insects, worker polymorphism is shaped by several factors, including colony si...
Polymorphism is the existence of multiple phenotypes within a given species in a population. In soci...
Optimal foraging models have been utilized extensively in the analysis of foraging behavior. Applie...
The evolution of polyandry is a general problem in behavioral ecology that has attracted particular ...
Several species of leaf-cutter ants, including Atta cephalotes, exhibit an interesting behavior of h...
Like traditional organisms, eusocial insect societies express traits that are the target of natural ...
An organism can adapt to its environment physiologically, behaviorally, and morphologically, but bio...
The proportion of foragers in ant colonies is a fairly constant species-specific characteristic that...
Atta cephalotes is one of the few species that does better in grassy pastures and secondary growth a...
A large nest of Myrmecia brevinoda (with a soil mound 70 cm tall) contained 2576 workers and 1 queen...
Army ants are superefficient in their retrieval of prey. There are four distinct worker castes in E...
This study aimed to verify age polyethism occurrence in medium-sized (cephalic capsule = 2.3 ± 0.21 ...