Pheromones for Weaver Ants

Side-Green.Com - Pheromones for weaver ants - Pheromones are chemical substances that serve to stimulate and have sexual allure in all living things both males and females.

Pheromones in living organisms derived from endocrine glands. Pheromones are used for:

1. recognize same-sex
2. other individuals
3. group
4. to assist the process of reproduction

In contrast to hormones, pheromones spread beyond the body and can only affect and be recognized by other similar individual or a single species. Conjunction with the cultivation of weaver ants, pheromones play a very important function in communication. Weaver ants use pheromones to:

1. directions to food sources
2. preserving foods to stock in the nest
3. as a sign of danger, which is used when exposed to the enemy
4. repel the enemy because of the smell that stung.

Weaver ants soon come when there is stimulus smell pheromones, which indicates the presence of food sources. Workers weaver ants secrete pheromones as an alarm substance, which is used when exposed to the enemy; Pheromones dispersed in the air and collect other workers. When these ants meet the enemy, they also produce pheromones, thus the signal is increased or decreased, depending on the level of danger.

However, this pheromone substance can cause havoc for farmers weaver ants. Why is that?

When one weaver ants find a way to escape from the jar nest to return to nature, the weaver ants immediately excrete pheromones to call his friends to follow in his footsteps blurred.

Such an event I've ever experienced, when one container of water at the foot of the rack has dried, weaver ants immediately fled through the rack legs. It fatal consequences, because all members of the colony can rapidly blurring.

Pheromones are very important in the effort to feed the backup storage for weaver ants.

See also:

Impact Extinction of Weaver Ants in Nature