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A colony of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) investigating an empty arena left pheromone trails in these estimated patterns.
Oct 30, 2015
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, ANDREA PERNA(See “Individual rules for trail pattern formation in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile),” PLOS Computational Biology, 2012.)
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