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'Walk this Way': How ants create trails to multiple food sources

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Florida State University researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available.

They published " Walk This Way: Modeling Foraging Ant Dynamics in Multiple Food Source Environments " in the Journal of Mathematical Biology .

Foraging for resources is an essential process for the daily life of an ant colony.

"From a microbial level to complex organisms, using this chemical signaling to communicate allows certain organisms to coordinate activity on huge spatial scales, which is fascinating." Story Source: Journal Reference: - Sean Hartman, Shawn D. Ryan , Bhargav R. Karamched . Walk this way: modeling foraging ant dynamics in multiple food source environments. Journal of Mathematical Biology , 2024 ; 89 ( 4 ) DOI: 10.1007 /s00285-024-02136-2 Cite This Page:.

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