TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dejean, A.
AU  - Moreau, C.S.
AU  - Uzac, P.
AU  - Le Breton, J.
AU  - Kenne, M.
PY  - 2007//
TI  - The predatory behavior of Pheidole megacephala
T2  - C. R. Biol.
JO  - Comptes Rendus Biologies
SP  - 701
EP  - 709
VL  - 330
IS  - 9
KW  - Invasive ants
KW  - Landmarks
KW  - Pheidole megacephala
KW  - Predatory behavior
KW  - Recruitment
KW  - pheromone
KW  - ant
KW  - behavioral ecology
KW  - foraging behavior
KW  - invasive species
KW  - nest predation
KW  - predator-prey interaction
KW  - animal experiment
KW  - article
KW  - competitor species
KW  - controlled study
KW  - host range
KW  - Isoptera
KW  - nonhuman
KW  - predation
KW  - predator prey interaction
KW  - prey selection
KW  - species invasion
KW  - worker (insect)
KW  - Animals
KW  - Ants
KW  - Feeding Behavior
KW  - Female
KW  - Social Behavior
KW  - Formicidae
KW  - Hexapoda
N2  - 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.
SN  - 16310691 (Issn)
UR  - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34548140536&partnerID=40&md5=bfdbb5395afb07960bbf883903152332
N1  - 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 André-Aron, 97300 Cayenne, France; email: alain.dejean@wanadoo.fr
ID  - Dejean_etal2007
ER  -