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By: MrOrange 
New research on a mega-colony of Argentine ants has revealed that the colony has branches in Europe, California, and Japan. The ants from these colonies refuse to fight with each other...
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- Blog Source: blogs.discovermagazine.comEven more remarkable, the insects can tell which ants are from their own colony, even if they live on different continents. When scientists placed ants from the Argentine colony together, even if they were taken from other countries, ...
- Blog Source: www.impactlab.comLed by Eiriki Sunamura of the University of Tokyo, the researchers in Japan and Spain found these Argentine ants shared a strikingly similar chemical profile of hydrocarbons on their cuticles. 'The enormous extent of this population is paralleled ...
- Blog Source: scienceblogs.comBut it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony. " Take some individuals from some of the biggest colonies on 3 continents, introduce them, and they don't fight. ...
- Blog Source: hereticalideas.comThe BBC reports that a super-colony of Argentine ants has formed on six different continents.A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world,
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