Nearfield Acoustic Communication by Ants

Friday, January 29, 1999 4:00 p.m. Dr. Robert Hickling University of Mississippi http://home.olemiss.edu/~hickling http://www.olemiss.edu and Professor Richard L. Brown Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology Mississippi State University http://www.msstate.edu/Entomology/Richard.html http://www.msstate.edu/entomology/ENTPLP.html http://www.msstate.edu/ An analysis is presented of acoustic communication by ants, including a study of the black fire ant Solenopsis richteri. Generally, ants’ stridulatory sounds are…