Worker subcastes of the leafcutter ant Atta

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Worker subcastes of the leafcutter ant Atta

Post by Deansie26 » Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:45 pm

Species of the genus Atta have have the most complex systems of divisions of labour that's known in ants.
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Reference: Bert Holldobler and Edward O.Wilson- The Leafcutter ants

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Re: Worker subcastes of the leafcutter ant Atta

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:48 pm

Is that taken from one of Holldobler & Wilson's books. Looks like their handiworkd.

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Re: Worker subcastes of the leafcutter ant Atta

Post by Deansie26 » Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:34 pm

Acromyrmexbob wrote:Is that taken from one of Holldobler & Wilson's books. Looks like their handiworkd.
It is, if this isn't ok pm me

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Re: Worker subcastes of the leafcutter ant Atta

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Wed Dec 16, 2015 7:24 am

Its fine. This is non commercial use. But we need to credit the publications when we reproduce their material. So each time we find a source and we use it we also need to say where it comes from. This is also good practice because it makes everything researchable and turns what we are doing here into a resource.

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Re: Worker subcastes of the leafcutter ant Atta

Post by Deansie26 » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:01 am

Git you

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