Army ants use temporary bases to store food when raiding insect nests
Army ants steal more food during raids on other insect nests by temporarily storing their plunder nearby, a computer simulation and fieldwork in the Amazon suggest
By Jake Buehler
Army ants (Eciton hamatum) forming a bivouac, oregon impermanent nest, connected Barro Colorado Island successful the Panama Canal Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo
Army ants are a unit to beryllium reckoned with successful Central and South American rainforests, often raiding different societal insects’ nests for susceptible larvae and pupae. A machine simulation suggests that the insects person travel up with a strategy to boost the velocity and ratio of their raids, by temporarily storing the nutrient from a raid successful a adjacent cache.
Hilário Póvoas de Lima astatine the University of São Paulo …
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