Scientists Discover New Slave-making Ant Species From Eastern US Pensoft Publishers A group of scientists from the University of Mainz and the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Goerlitz, headed by Susanne Foitzik and Bernhard Seifert, recently described a new slave-making ant species from the eastern USA. They baptized the new ant Temnothorax pilagens – from pilere (Latin): to pluck, plunder or pillage. The paper was published in the open access journal ...
Jan. 10, 2014 - redOrbit
Minimalistic raiding parties of a slave-hunting ant crack castles A group of scientists from the University of Mainz and the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Goerlitz, headed by Susanne Foitzik and Bernhard Seifert, recently described a new slave-making ant species from the eastern USA. They baptized the new ant Temnothorax pilagens -- from pilere (Latin): to pluck, plunder or pillage. The paper was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.
Jan. 9, 2014 - EurekAlert!