| Title: | The predatory behaviour of a tramp ant species in its native range |
| Author(s): | Kenne M; Mony R; Tindo M; Njaleu LC; Orivel J; Dejean A; |
| Address: | "Departement de Biologie des Organismes Animaux, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Douala, BP 24157, Douala, Cameroon" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.crvi.2005.09.001 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1631-0691 (Print) 1631-0691 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | Workers of the pest ant Paratrechina longicornis participate in a type of group hunting. Each individual forages with its long antennae wide open and moves quickly (6.3 cm/s) along an erratic path surrounded by nestmates behaving in the same way and within range of a recruiting pheromone. They detect prey by contact with successful workers singly capturing and retrieving small prey and seizing larger ones by an appendage. Then they recruit nestmates at short-range; all together they spread-eagle the prey and retrieve them whole |
| Keywords: | Animals Ants/*physiology Cockroaches Competitive Behavior Exploratory Behavior Periodicity Pheromones/physiology Predatory Behavior/*physiology Sense Organs Species Specificity; |
| Notes: | "MedlineKenne, Martin Mony, Ruth Tindo, Maurice Njaleu, Lydie Carole Kamaha Orivel, Jerome Dejean, Alain eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't France 2005/11/16 C R Biol. 2005 Oct-Nov; 328(10-11):1025-30. doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2005.09.001. Epub 2005 Oct 27" |
