Seasonal Trends in Honeydew-Foraging Strategies in the Red Wood Ant, Formica yessensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

The red wood ants Formica yessensis are known to support super colonies comprising thousands of nests, contain approximately 360 million workers, and over one million queens along the Ishikari coast, Hokkaido, northern Japan. Previous studies revealed the abundance of prey insects in Ishikari is ver...

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Main Author: Izumi Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2014-08-01
Series:Sociobiology
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Online Access:http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/519