When social behaviour is moulded in clay: on growth and form of social insect nests

It is not all pheromones: No evidence that pheromones affect digging face choice during ant nest excavation

(2016) Andrew I. Bruce   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Stigmergic construction and topochemical information shape ant nest architecture

(2016) Anaïs Khuong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trail Pheromones: An Integrative View of Their Role in Social Insect Colony Organization

(2015) Tomer J. Czaczkes et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Arrestant property of recently manipulated soil on Macrotermes michaelseni as determined through visual tracking and automatic labeling of individual termite behaviors

(2015) Kirstin Petersen et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Nest architecture shapes the collective behaviour of harvester ants

(2015) Noa Pinter-Wollman   Biology Letters

Behavioral and mechanical determinants of collective subsurface nest excavation

(2015) D. Monaenkova et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Termite mounds harness diurnal temperature oscillations for ventilation

(2015) Hunter King et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ant trophallactic networks: simultaneous measurement of interaction patterns and food dissemination

(2015) Efrat Greenwald et al.   Scientific Reports

Animal transportation networks

(2014) A. Perna et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

X-ray tomographic analysis of the initial structure of the royal chamber and the nest-founding behavior of the drywood termite Incisitermes minor

(2014) S. Khoirul Himmi et al.   JOURNAL OF WOOD SCIENCE

The Role of Colony Size on Tunnel Branching Morphogenesis in Ant Nests

(2014) Jacques Gautrais et al.   PLoS One

Harvester ants use interactions to regulate forager activation and availability

(2013) Noa Pinter-Wollman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

‘Magnetic’ termite mounds: is their unique shape an adaptation to facilitate gas exchange and improve food storage?

(2013) A. M. Schmidt et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Sequential Soil Transport and Its Influence on the Spatial Organisation of Collective Digging in Leaf-Cutting Ants

(2013) Steffen Pielström et al.   PLoS One

Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization

(2013) D. P. Mersch et al.   SCIENCE

A social network perspective on measurements of dominance hierarchies

(2012) Daizaburo Shizuka et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effect of gland extracts on digging and residing preferences of red imported fire ant workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2012) Jian Chen et al.   Insect Science

The size of excavators within a polymorphic termite species governs tunnel topology

(2011) Ives Haifig et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Morphogenesis of an extended phenotype: four-dimensional ant nest architecture

(2011) N. J. Minter et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Use of radio-tagging to map spatial organization and social interactions in insects

(2010) M. Moreau et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Queue Size Determines the Width of Tunnels in the Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

(2010) Paul M. Bardunias et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Methods for Casting Subterranean Ant Nests

(2010) Walter R. Tschinkel   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Excavated substrate modulates growth instability during nest building in ants

(2010) E. Toffin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emergency networking: famine relief in ant colonies

(2009) Ana B. Sendova-Franks et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Tunnel Volume Regulation and Group Size of Subterranean Termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

(2009) Nan-Yao Su et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Dead Reckoning in Tunnel Propagation of the Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

(2009) Paul Bardunias et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Feeding and Stocking Up: Radio-Labelled Food Reveals Exchange Patterns in Ants

(2009) Aurélie Buffin et al.   PLoS One

Shape transition during nest digging in ants

(2009) E. Toffin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The structure of gallery networks in the nests of termite Cubitermes spp. revealed by X-ray tomography

(2008) Andrea Perna et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Topological efficiency in three-dimensional gallery networks of termite nests

(2008) Andrea Perna et al.   PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Setting tool use within the context of animal construction behaviour

(2008) M HANSELL et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION