@Article{Dejean_etal2007,
author="Dejean, A.
and Moreau, C.S.
and Uzac, P.
and Le Breton, J.
and Kenne, M.",
title="The predatory behavior of Pheidole megacephala",
journal="Comptes Rendus Biologies",
year="2007",
volume="330",
number="9",
pages="701--709",
optkeywords="Invasive ants",
optkeywords="Landmarks",
optkeywords="Pheidole megacephala",
optkeywords="Predatory behavior",
optkeywords="Recruitment",
optkeywords="pheromone",
optkeywords="ant",
optkeywords="behavioral ecology",
optkeywords="foraging behavior",
optkeywords="invasive species",
optkeywords="nest predation",
optkeywords="predator-prey interaction",
optkeywords="animal experiment",
optkeywords="article",
optkeywords="competitor species",
optkeywords="controlled study",
optkeywords="host range",
optkeywords="Isoptera",
optkeywords="nonhuman",
optkeywords="predation",
optkeywords="predator prey interaction",
optkeywords="prey selection",
optkeywords="species invasion",
optkeywords="worker (insect)",
optkeywords="Animals",
optkeywords="Ants",
optkeywords="Feeding Behavior",
optkeywords="Female",
optkeywords="Social Behavior",
optkeywords="Formicidae",
optkeywords="Hexapoda",
abstract="We studied the foraging and predatory behaviors of the invasive African myrmicine ant, Pheidole megacephala (F.) in its native range. Workers can singly capture a wide range of insects, including relatively large prey items. For still larger prey, they recruit at short range those nestmates situated within reach of an alarm pheromone and together spread-eagle the insect. These behaviors are complimented by a long-range recruitment (of nestmates remaining in the nest) based on prey size. P. megacephala scouts also use long-range recruitment when they detect the landmarks of termites and competing ant species, thus permitting them to avoid confronting these termites and ants solitarily.",
optnote="Cited By (since 1996): 8; Export Date: 22 October 2011; Source: Scopus; Coden: Crboc; doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2007.06.005; PubMed ID: 17720587; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Dejean, A.; CNRS-Guyane, UPS 2561, UMR-CNRS 5174, 16, avenue Andr{\'e}-Aron, 97300 Cayenne, France; email: alain.dejean@wanadoo.fr",
optnote="exported from refbase (http://php.ecofog.gf/refbase/show.php?record=354), last updated on Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:32:53 -0300",
issn="16310691 (Issn)",
opturl="http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34548140536&partnerID=40&md5=bfdbb5395afb07960bbf883903152332"
}