An overlooked mandibular-rubbing behavior used during recruitment by the African weaver ant, Oecophylla longinoda.

In Oecophylla, an ant genus comprising two territorially dominant arboreal species, workers are known to (1) use anal spots to mark their territories, (2) drag their gaster along the substrate to deposit short-range recruitment pomyslnaszycie.com trails, and (3) drag the extruded rectal gland along the substrate to deposit the trails used in long-r

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