Abstract
It is no wonder that we are transfixed with fascination when we stand in the midst of an ocean of flowing ants within a single extensive society of one of the invasive species. Normal terms do not fit anymore: this is not just a colony, but a “supercolony.” The iconic supercolonial species is the Argentine ant, infamous as a pest and now very well studied, all the way from having its genome sequenced to its global distribution mapped. As the Argentine ant can be the key to understanding other supercolonial and/or invasive ants, it is very timely that Moffett's review (2012) focuses on how we interpret recent studies on social organization in this species. For more than a decade, this field of research has been hampered by misunderstandings due to diverging or changed views (including those of myself). Moffett now makes sense of the complex of …
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Behavioral Ecology |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Pages (from-to) | 934–935 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISSN | 1045-2249 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2012 |