Consuming large prey on the spot: The case of the arboreal foraging ponerine ant Platythyrea modesta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 324-326

  Djieto Lordon C ^a   Orivel, J ^b   Dejean, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Colony emigration; Large prey; Platythyrea modesta; Ponerinae

Indexed keywords

ANT; EMIGRATION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PLATYTHYREA MODESTA; PONERINAE;

EID: 0035688129     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00001784     Document Type: Article

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