Social insects frequently engage in oral fluid exchange – trophallaxis – between adults, and between adults and larvae. Although trophallaxis is normally considered a simple food-sharing mechanism, we hypothesized that endogenous components of this fluid might underlie a novel means of chemical comm...
ORGANISM(S): Solenopsis invicta Camponotus fellah Camponotus floridanus Apis mellifera (Honeybee)
