Ants Use Sound To Communicate 36
sciencehabit writes "A new study shows that ant pupae—a stage between larvae and adult—can communicate via sound, and that this communication can be crucial to their survival. The young insects have a specialized spike along their abdomen that they stroke with one of their hind legs, similar to dragging the teeth of a comb along the edge of a table. This noise serves primarily as an emergency beacon, allowing the ants to shout for help when being threatened by a predator."
New ant traps based on emitting emergency sounds? (Score:5, Interesting)
Would be nice if this could be used to trick ants into thinking they need to rush to help an ant in distress, only to die in the trap.