Graveyard Smash - It was a Dark and Stormy Month
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Are They Required to Give You a New Home?
Insects don't rely on their eyes in the same way, if an ant sees another curled up ant with its feet up in the air nd moving, it won't necessarily register that, like amen, brion is dead over there. Instead, insects largely rely on sensing chemicals to communicate. And a big category of compounds that mean death to them are fatty acids, especially olaic acid which builds up while the bodies decompose. In some species, like american cockroaches or solitary bees, olaic id means go away,. But in others, particularly social species, like some ants, honey bees and termites, olai acid has been shown to cause
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