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1. Glivery G. Gayahana and Walter R. Tschinkelb Department of
Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Presented by: Vivi Yunisa Harahap

2. 1. The storage of food is an
obvious strategy against
future shortages
2. Food storages occurs
sporadically among animals
3. Among social insects, long-
term, internal storage of
liquid foods has evolved
among ants, giving rise in
the extreme case to
honeypot ants such as the
desert-dwelling species of
the genus Myrmecocystus
in which a replete caste
stores liquid food in the crop
for months.

3. To see how the fire ants in the
food store that will be used for the future
To ask whether the ants similarly
stockpile dried insect prey pieces in their
natural nest.

4. Cultivation of beetle larvae
(Zophobus atratus)
Beetle larva was
cut with half
elongated
Dyed in a solution of 0.5%
Rhodamin B is mixed with the
water
Given in wet
condition
Fire ant colonies in the field and
in the laboratory

5. Given 10 gr of dye Petri dishes were
Zophobus atratus on closed on both
fire ant colonies in the
field
sides
After 24 hors
Excavated nest of fire Measured the reduction in
ants to seen the storage weight of larvae that had
of food by using been collected by fire ants
ultraviolet light
For one day of feeding,
the chloroform was
sprinkled on the top of a
fire ant nest

6. Photographic trays used
as a fire ant colony nest
in the laboratory
maintained in damp
conditions at a temperature
of 280 C
fed with sugar water and beetle larvae

7. A B

11.  The researcher was observed evolution from the
behavior of fire ants maybe associated with the different
manner in which ants collect and transport liquid and
solid food
 Liquids are taken into the distensible crop and shared by
trophallaxis, whereas solids are transported in the
mandibles.
 The larva covers the pellet with salivary secretion,
which partly converts it into a liquefied product, which
is then collected and distributed around the colony by
worker trophallaxis
 This tendency to separate the liquid food stream from
the solid may underlie the evolution of the preparation
of jerky.

12.  The storage of food is an obvious strategy against
future shortages.
 The result of insect prey obtained will be brought
to their nest and transformed into small pieces
(Insect jerky)
 The form of the result prey that is solid food and
liquid food.
 The worker ants transported the solid food in the
mandible whereas the liquid food are taken into
the distensible crop and shared by trophallaxis