Trail pheromone of leaf-cutting antAcromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus (Forel)
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Chemical Ecology
- Vol. 20 (7), 1719-1724
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02059893
Abstract
The trail pheromone ofAcromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus consists simply of the heterocyclic ester methyl 4-methylpyrrole-2-carboxylate in the venom reservoir of workers at about 1.2 ng/ant. No pyrazines were detected, and no enhancement of trail-following was observed when pyrazines were added to the pyrrole compound.Keywords
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