Therefore, unlike their wasp ancestors, most ants travel by walking. Some tend to develop literal paths--the tiny equivalent of deer trails--or create unseen paths using chemical hints (Pheromones) left for others to smell. The more cooperative species of ants sometimes form chains to bridge ...
This water treatment did not seem to hinder the ants from walking across the box. Even when they were carrying brood in their mandibles they walked without any perceptible difficulty. The nest cover was removed once the nest was empty to prevent the colony from relocating back to the old ...
The top box is the waving motion of a bug’s leg; the box below is the walking pathway of a foraging ant individual across the same time frame. The dark arrow is the ant’s head with the point indicating the direction of the ant’s head, and the grey line represents the ant’s ...