Nestmate discrimination and competition in incipient colonies of fire ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-59

  Balas, Michael T ^a   Adams, Eldridge S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BROOD RAIDING; COLONY ESTABLISHMENT; FIRE ANT; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; QUEEN;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0029669111     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0004     Document Type: Article

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