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How ants walking backward find their way home

Started By OhNoNotAgain , Feb 14 2020 10:09 AM

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#1 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted February 14 2020 - 10:09 AM

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This is a nice simple little discussion of ant navigation while dragging food home backwards.

I actually was wondering about this as I watched a Veromessor pergandei dragging home dandelion seeds (and missing the test tube entrance due to a piece of fluff). Clearly there are still lots of questions remaining, though.

 

 

How ants walking backward find their way home

 

 

https://www.sciencem...-their-way-home


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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

#2 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 14 2020 - 10:38 AM

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If this article mentions Camponotus doing this, I'm going to lose it lol. I house some of the weirdest ants (honestly a fitting ant colony for my personality lol), and they are bizarre, I'll give them that much.


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#3 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted February 14 2020 - 12:55 PM

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I'm a bit annoyed that the article is about Cataglyphis but has a picture of Oecophylla. I assume, then, that the people who write the articles are not the same ones who choose the pictures and headlines.


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Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#4 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 14 2020 - 2:30 PM

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People just don't care. It's sad.  :mad:


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"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

#5 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted February 14 2020 - 2:44 PM

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They just search ant and enter the first picture they find.


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#6 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 14 2020 - 2:46 PM

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Sadly, but surely, this is what news has come to.


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#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 14 2020 - 2:46 PM

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Yes, I agree.


Edited by AntsDakota, February 14 2020 - 2:47 PM.

"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

#8 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted February 14 2020 - 4:50 PM

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Problem is if the associated photos aren't easily available, what photos can you (as a news publisher) get quickly on short notice? Stock photos. But the caption sucks for sure.


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

#9 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 14 2020 - 4:56 PM

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you think they would at least try to get the name right...


scientifically at least...


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