... ants to make multiple visits to sucrose on a runway which alternated between lemon or rosemary odour, and the presence or absence of trail pheromone, and then tested for preference between the odours on a Y -maze, in order to investigate the effect of pheromone presence on learning. Pheromone presence...

...Natacha Rossi; Muriel Pereyra; Mariel A. Moauro; Martin Giurfa; Patrizia d'Ettorre; Roxana Josens ABSTRACT The Argentine ant, Linepithema humile , is native to South America but has become one of the most invasive species in the world. These ants heavily rely on trail pheromones for foraging...