Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MATHEUS BASTOS COSTA CHAVES

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MATHEUS BASTOS COSTA CHAVES
DATE: 03/04/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala da Pós-graduação
TITLE:

COMPORTAMENTO DE FORRAGEIO DE Odontomachus haematodus
EM AMBIENTE LABORATORIAL (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)

KEY WORDS:

Ant; food preference; foraging; recruitment.

PAGES: 12
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Ants, who are amongst eusocial insects, are notorious for their task allocation. One of
those activities is foraging, which consists in exploration of the surroundings of the nest,
hunting or gathering of food items and transport of this resource back to the nest to share it
with nest mates. This activity can occur in many ways, with foraging being guided by visual,
chemical or temporal cues, done individually or in groups and with different diets and food
preferences. With that in mind, we seek to, via experiments based on the offering of different
types and quantities of food, identify the preferred source of food by the ponerine ant
Odontomachus haematodus. This species belongs to the same genus as other species on
which a clear preference for a given food source was identified. Besides food preference, we
seek to ascertain the possibility of recruitment occurring in O. haematodus as it occurs in a
primitive form in other species of the genus and in a more complex form in other ponerine
ants.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149552 - ARRILTON ARAUJO DE SOUZA
Externa à Instituição - DINA LILLIA OLIVEIRA DE AZEVEDO