A new study suggests trophallaxis in the Florida carpenter ant (Camponotus floridanus) plays a previously unknown role in communication: it enables communal control of colony phenotypes. Ants and other social insects such as termites use trophallaxis, or oral fluid exchange, to share food (and baits). But researchers from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland found that […]
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