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Black Imported Fire Ants Adapt Tool Use to Avoid Drowning | Biology – Sci-News.com
Black imported fire ants (Solenopsis richteri) have the remarkable ability to adapt its tool use, according to new research by scientists from USDA-ARS and Huaz…
Black imported fire ants (Solenopsis richteri) have the remarkable ability to adapt its tool use: when provided with small containers of sugar water, they were able to float and feed on the surface, but when researchers reduced the surface tension, the ants started depositing sand grains on the inside of the container leading out of it.
When faced with the risk of drowning, black imported fire ants (Solenopsis richteri) used sand to siphon liquid food out of containers. Image credit: Zhou et al…
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