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Study - Sanitary care by social ants shapes disease outcome

Started By StopSpazzing , Jan 17 2020 2:13 PM

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#1 Offline StopSpazzing - Posted January 17 2020 - 2:13 PM

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https://phys.org/new...se-outcome.html

What do you guys think?
> Ant Keeping Wiki is back up! Currently being migrated from old wiki. :)Looking to adopt out: Crematogaster sp. (Acrobat Ants) colonies

#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 17 2020 - 4:19 PM

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The pic says Linepithema humile but its L. inqiuum...


#3 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted January 17 2020 - 10:43 PM

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Wish it described what ants do with the stuff they groom off each other. Do they spit it out? Digest it? Anyone know?

Past & Present

Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive);  Lasius sp.

 

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen

Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa

Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other

#4 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 18 2020 - 4:22 PM

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I always thought the debris just 'fell to the floor', but I could most certainly be wrong.


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

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