wood ants
Visual associative learning in wood ants
... in wood ants have employed freely moving animals ...experiments, ants move in a specific direction to acquire sucrose, which reflects their natural foraging strategy; ants leave the nest and ...
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Do wood ants learn sequences of visual stimuli?
... of wood ants to link together sequentially presented visual stimuli, we used a simplified version of Zhang et al’s (Zhang et ...that ants can easily ...
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Metabolic rate scaling, ventilation patterns and respiratory water loss in red wood ants: activity drives ventilation changes, metabolic rate drives water loss
... Wood ants are a keystone species that exert effects upon invertebrate and plant populations (Domisch et ...of wood ant workers, among which body size varies considerably, has a direct impact on their ...
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Level locomotion in wood ants: evidence for grounded running
... In order to better understand the strategies of locomotion in small insects, we have studied continuous level locomotion of the wood ant species Formica polyctena. We determined the three-dimensional centre of ...
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Dynamics and kinematics of ant locomotion: do wood ants climb on level surfaces?
... Red wood ants display a typical tripod gait pattern in which all legs of a tripod have ground contact in phase with each other (Seidl and Wehner, ...
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Switching destinations: memory change in wood ants
... that wood ants are attracted directly to a visually defined feeding site when started from novel ...When ants approach a goal located at the bottom of a landmark, they seem to learn views of these ...
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Acquisition and expression of memories of distance and direction in navigating wood ants
... Wood ants, like other central place foragers, rely on route memories to guide them to and from a reliable food ...trained wood ant (Formica rufa) foragers in a channel to perform either a single ...
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The binding and recall of snapshot memories in wood ants (Formica rufa L )
... on wood ants (Durier et al., 2003) to analyse how ants might enhance the reliability of snapshot ...by wood ants is that an ant stores one or more snapshots at a food site while ...
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Homing in wood ants, Formica japonica: use of the skyline panorama
... the ants were extended, they intersected at a point located more than 13 m behind the nest ...the ants were guided by the distant landmark-rich skyline available in their frontal fields of view, especially ...
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Learning walks and landmark guidance in wood ants (Formica rufa)
... One similarity between the learning flights of bees and wasps and the ‘learning walks’ of wood ants is that both are typically performed when a site is new to an insect or has not been visited recently ...
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The influence of beacon aiming on the routes of wood ants
... Both wood and cataglyphid ants follow fixed routes from their nest to a feeding site and back again guided by visual landmarks (Santschi, 1913; Rosengren, 1971; Collett et ...goal. Wood ants, ...
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When navigating wood ants use the centre of mass of a shape to extract directional information from a panoramic skyline
... FPM, wood ants can be guided by local features such as oriented edges (Judd and Collett, ...that ants learnt the angular distance between each edge and the goal and used both edges to control their ...
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Bi directional route learning in wood ants
... 1907). Wood ants, too, have been found to look back and approach nearby landmarks after they have found a new source of food (Judd and Collett, 1998; Nicholson et ...Desert ants behave similarly when ...
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The co activation of snapshot memories in wood ants
... the ants’ movements were restricted after the feeder was switched to ...nest, ants were not released at the original start ...The ants’ views while approaching F2 were limited to what they could see ...
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View based navigation in insects: how wood ants (Formica rufa L ) look at and are guided by extended landmarks
... the ants’ paths rotated by approximately the same ...that ants’ paths can be governed entirely by visual information derived from the wall independently of compass cues and makes it possible to study ...
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Discussion of development processes in insect fungus association derived from the shaggy parasol fruiting on the nests of hairy wood ants
... Nests comprise a built mound element as well as excavations in the ground beneath the mound. There are tunnels and galleries in both super‐ and subterranean elements. Entrances to the mound ap‐ pear to be transient ...
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Widespread hybridization within mound-building wood ants in Southern Finland results in cytonuclear mismatches and potential for sex-specific hybrid breakdown.
... Hybridization and gene flow between diverging lineages is increasingly recognized as a common evolutionary process and its consequences can vary from hybrid breakdown to adaptive introgression. We have previously found a ...
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Navigation in wood ants Formica japonica: context dependent use of landmarks
... vector ants, the zero-vector ants once released hesitated to climb the step of the terrace ...15 ants descended from the step and headed to the east into the lawn, six ants turned on the step ...
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Skeletomuscular adaptations of head and legs of Melissotarsus ants for tunnelling through living wood
... living wood. Ants of the genus Melissotarsus (subfamily Myrmicinae) inhabit tunnel systems excavated under the bark of living trees, where they keep large numbers of symbiotic armoured scale insects (family ...
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Walking on inclines: how do desert ants monitor slope and step length
... pref- erably used in climbing insects. The phase relationships of the legs were determined relative to the stepping cycle of the left middle leg (L2; phase = 0: touch down of L2 initi- ating the stepping cycle analyzed, ...
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