AntVideoRecord: Autonomous system to capture the locomotor activity of leafcutter ants.

ABSTRACT: The leafcutter ants (LCA) are considered plague in a great part of the American continent, causing great damage in production fields. Knowing the locomotion and foraging rhythm in LCA on a continuous basis would imply a significant advance for ecological studies, fundamentally of animal behavior. However, studying the forage rhythm of LCA in the field involves a significant human effort. This also adds a risk of subjective results due to the operator fatigue. In this work a new development named 'AntVideoRecord' is proposed to address this issue. This device is a low-cost autonomous system that records videos of the LCA path in a fixed position. The device can be easily reproduced using the freely accessible source code provided. The evaluation of this novel device was successful because i

SUBMITTER: Sabattini JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058706 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature