My Queen! (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

My Queen!

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Researchers found that the trap-jaw ant worker, left, cannot perceive a queen of the same species unless the queen also shares the chemical signature of the worker's nest. Here, the worker has retracted its antennae, a sign that it recognizes its queen.

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Adrian A. Smith

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