Ant Ecology Research
I am a graduate student studying ecology and especially ant ecology at the University of Texas at Arlington. I just started an experiment in open notebook science. Open Notebook is a way of making...
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That's awesome! Ya I haven't read very much on P. comanche! Would you consider capturing a few fertile queens and trying to raise a colony?
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Why were so many of them at the very beginning walking around with their gasters curled under? That was strange.
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I might keep colonies if I needed to for some lab work. P. comanche can climb so I would have to have the proper containers and foraging set-up. This can be done. But right now all my work is in the...
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The smaller ants are the workers and actually, this behavior isn't so strange. Many ants will hold their gasters in this manner. P. comanche appears not to use pheromone recruitment much. This may...
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Silly question maybe but is it possible that they have already been fertilized and are acting on instinct whilst waiting to fly? Also funny you should mention that they would be able to recognize...
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AntCzar wrote:Silly question maybe but is it possible that they have already been fertilized and are acting on instinct whilst waiting to fly? Also funny you should mention that they would be able to...
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AntCzar wrote:Silly question maybe but is it possible that they have already been fertilized and are acting on instinct whilst waiting to fly? Also funny you should mention that they would be able to...
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To AntCzar: No, these alates have not mated. There is only one queen for a colony in this species, Pogonomyrmex comanche. They found colonies independently. And yes, this species appears to orient by...
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