Do red wood ant Formica rufa use group specific pheromones for route fidelity? A preliminary survey

Biologia

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 657-662

  Camlitepe, Yilmaz ^a   Stradling, David J ^b  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formica rufa; Orientation; Pheromones; Red wood ants; Route fidelity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004084705     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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