When pavement ants (the little reddish brown ants you see in sidewalk cracks) have intra-species war they use the concept of a one-to-one correspondence to determine who has a larger army.
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I mean... a big part of the problem is we need to study them more. But they are not destructive pests, they are just successful in urban environments, but they rarely enter human homes and mostly make things better by cleaning up trash and suppressing more annoying invasive pests. So there isn't funding to study them I think?
@futurebird @lienrag That’s a real shame — they’re so common I would think it would be relatively cheap to study them (at least “in the field”) compared to more exotic species. And given their potential role in the urban ecology, they seem important to understand.
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@thegarbagebird @futurebird real talk
