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Eusocial insects have evolved diverse particle-use behaviors.A previous study reported that red imported fire ants,Solenopsis invicta Buren,deposited soil particles on substances treated with essential balm,a fire ant repellent.We hypothesized that S.invi
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Guangdong Key Laboratory for Innovation Development and Utilization of Forest Plant Germplasm,Colleg
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Eusocial insects have evolved diverse particle-use behaviors.A previous study reported that red imported fire ants,Solenopsis invicta Buren,deposited soil particles on substances treated with essential balm,a fire ant repellent.We hypothesized that S.invicta modifies inaccessible surfaces by covering them with soil particles to facilitate food search and transportation.Here,laboratory experiments were conducted to study the particle-covering behavior of S.invicta in response to viscose surfaces or surfaces treated with essential balm or liquid paraffin in the presence of real food (sausage) or non-food objects (acrylic plates).S.invicta workers deposited significantly more soil particles on these three types of treated surfaces than on untreated surfaces.In addition,significantly more particles were relocated on viscose and paraffin-smeared surfaces in the presence of food than in the presence of non-food objects.The particle-covering behavior on viscose surfaces was also observed in the field.Interestingly,when no soil particles were available,ants searched and transported food on viscose surfaces only if the surfaces were artificially covered with sufficient quantities of soil particles but could not do so on viscose surfaces without soil particles or with insufficient quantities of soil particles.In addition,ants ac-tively relocated particles to cover viscose surfaces if the transportation distance was within 200 mm,whereas significantly fewer particles were relocated at longer transportation dis-tances (400 mm).Our study provides a novel example of particle use by fire ants during foraging.
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