S. Teseo

Temporary prey storage along swarm columns of army ants: an adaptive strategy for successful raiding?

The paper investigates prey caching by army ants, finding it enhances prey retrieval for small raiding groups but becomes less advantageous with more raiders.

Integrating real-time data analysis into automatic tracking of social insect behavior

The paper develops BACH, a real-time video tracking system for social insect behavior, showing it performs comparably to humans in detection but struggles with fast-moving individual identification.

The scent of symbiosis: gut bacteria affect social interactions in leafcutting ants

This study shows that gut bacteria in leaf-cutting ants influence social behavior by altering chemical signals involved in nestmate recognition.

Reduced foraging investment as an adaptation to patchy food sources: a phasic army ant simulation

This study uses a computational simulation to show that phasic foraging behavior provides a reproductive advantage in patchy food environments, supporting its evolutionary emergence in doryline ants.