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Ants attack their nest-mates because pollution changes their smell
Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their ...
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Air pollution causes social instability in ant colonies, triggering attacks on returning nest mates
A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...
Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one ...
Air pollution may be turning ants against their own families, according to new research which suggests that such pollution ...
S. lativentris beetles evade detection — and attack — by grooming the ants to harvest chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons ...
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