A5089606187- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Ruhr University Bochum
2013-2022
Gandhara University
2017
SUMMARY Fungus-growing higher termites build long subterranean galleries that lead outwards from the nest to foraging sites. When soldiers are disturbed, they tend drum with their heads against substrate and thereby create vibrational alarm signals. The present study aimed at describing these acoustic signals, how elicited, produced perceived, signals propagate within nests over distances in two termite species of Southern African savannah, Macrotermes natalensis an Odontotermes sp. consist...
Although several behavioural studies demonstrate the ability of insects to localise source vibrations, it is still unclear how are able perceive directional information from vibratory signals on solid substrates, because time-of-arrival and amplitude difference between receptory structures thought be too small processed by insect nervous systems. The termite Macrotermes natalensis communicates using vibrational drumming transmitted along subterranean galleries. When soldiers attacked...
Leafcutter ants communicate with the substrate-borne component of vibratory emission produced by stridulation. Stridulatory signals in genus Atta have been described different behavioural contexts, such as foraging, alarm signalling and collective nest building. vibrations are employed to recruit nestmates, which can localize source vibration, but there is little information about underlying mechanisms. Our experiments reveal that time-of-arrival delays vibrational used for tropotactic...
Flower visiting stingless bees store collected pollen and nectar for times of scarcity. This stored food is high value the colony should be protected against con- heterospecifics that might rob them. There selective pressure on evolution mechanisms to discriminate nestmates from non-nestmates defend nest, i.e., resources intruders. Multimodal communication systems, a system includes more than one sensory modality provide redundant information, reliable unimodal systems. Besides olfactory...