Nest Emigration Behavior of the Asian Needle Ant, Brachyponera (=Pachycondyla) chinensis Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Ant colonies change nest location in response to physical disturbance, climate fluctuation, and Whips resource availability.During the emigration process, worker recruitment is vital to ensuring that individual colony members are moved to the new nest site.Recruitment methods used during emigration differ between ant species.In a laboratory study,