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  1. Stefan F. Wirth @[email protected] ·

    #Socialinsect #nests are #ecosystems with a #diversity of #organisms.
    In #leafcutterant #Atta #texana nests, mite #Histiostoma #bakeri reduces harmful #fungi in detritus chambers (S.F. Wirth & J.C. Moser 2008).
    A. Panchal et al. (2025) found #termite #Odontotermes #obesus to reduce harmful fungi from its food #funguscultivar using fungicides of #bacteria.

    ©#StefanFWirth

    Ref
    (2008)
    Proceed. 6th EURAAC

    (2025)
    doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2713

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    O. obesus, Nikhil More, 2020,
    creativecommons.org/licenses/b

    #socialinsect #nests #ecosystems #diversity #organisms #leafcutterant
  2. Flatbush Gardener 🌈 @[email protected] ·

    @JohnCarlson They're such beautiful wasps.

    inaturalist.org/observations/1

    #Polistes #PaperWasp #SocialInsect #Wasp #Hymenoptera #iNaturalist

    #polistes #paperwasp #socialinsect #wasp #hymenoptera #inaturalist
  3. fx dechaume-moncharmont @[email protected] ·

    The regulation of division of labour in social insects is poorly understood. One can still find, in many textbooks, old models about "age polyethism". Here is a nice experimental work in which the behaviour of #ant workers were continuously tracked for 5 months. The transition between nurse to forager tasks is largely age independent. #science #biology #socialinsect #hymenoptera #insect #animalbehaviour #socialnetwork
    📄 Richardson et al. (2021) Current Biology 0 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.

    #socialnetwork #animalbehaviour #insect #hymenoptera #socialinsect #biology