What is it about?
Ants can be disrupted by an oversupply of their own trail pheromone but if there are physical cues the ants use those to overcome the disruption (up to a point)
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Why is it important?
New ways of using pheromones and information chemicals to control insects without reliance on insecticides,
Perspectives
Pretty fun !
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Thigmotaxis Mediates Trail Odour Disruption, Scientific Reports, May 2017, Nature,
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01958-z.
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