Foraging Behavior of Chihuahuan Desert Harvester Ants
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The American Midland Naturalist
- Vol. 95 (2) , 455-458
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2424409
Abstract
Foraging behavior was studied on a desert grassland site 40 km NNE of Las Cruces, New Mexico [USA]. The number of workers foraging decreased logarithmically with distance from colony when individual seeds were evenly distributed and varied directly with seed density. Some colonies of Pogonomyrmex rugosus exhibited group foraging while others did not. Foraging territories of individual colonies of P. rugosus were irregular in shape and overlapped considerably with foraging territories of adjacent colonies of P. rugosus.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Biological Activities of the Harvester Ant, Pogonomyrmex owyheei, in Central Oregon1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1965