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Individual specific trails in the antLeptothorax affinis (Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

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Leptothorax affinis lays chemical trails during nest emigration. Workers which carried colony members during nest movement refused trails of nest mates and searched for their own trails. The origin of the individual specific trail substance could not be localized.

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  1. Zoologisches Institut der Universität, D-6000, Frankfurt/M

    U. Maschwitz, S. Lenz & A. Buschinger

  2. Zoologisches Institut der Technischen Hochschule, D-6100, Darmstadt, (Federal Republic of Germany)

    U. Maschwitz, S. Lenz & A. Buschinger

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Maschwitz, U., Lenz, S. & Buschinger, A. Individual specific trails in the antLeptothorax affinis (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Experientia 42, 1173–1174 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01941298

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