video: The minor worker caste accounts for a majority of foraging behavior in C. floridanus colonies. Here, workers of both castes feed on sugar water in the Berger Ant Lab. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 1, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.F. Simola at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, and colleagues was titled, "Epigenetic (re)programming of caste-specific behavior in the ant Camponotus floridanus." view more
Credit: Riley J. Graham