Sugary food robbing in ants: A case of temporal cleptobiosis

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 327, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 509-517

  Richard, Freddie Jeanne ^a,b,c   Dejean, Alain ^a   Lachaud, Jean Paul ^b,d  

^a École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UFR des Sciences et Techniques   (France)

^d EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ants; Cleptobiosis; Crematogaster limata parabiotica; Ectatomma tuberculatum; French Guiana; Interspecific relationships

Indexed keywords

SUGAR;

ANT; ARBOREAL SPECIES; DIURNAL VARIATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; ROBBING; SYMPATRY;

ANT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS; SYMPATRY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUCROSE; TASTE;

CREMATOGASTER LIMATA; CREMATOGASTER LIMATA PARABIOTICA; ECTATOMMA; ECTATOMMA TUBERCULATUM; FORMICIDAE; MYRMICINAE; PONERINAE;

EID: 2942566271     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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