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Authors: Aanchal Panchal, Ruchira Sen, Renuka Agarwal, Anjali Rana, Rhitoban Raychoudhury
Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confining weeds with fungistatic soil boluses
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Fungus-farming termites, show targetted weed control and selectively respond to parasitic fungi instead of treating the entire fungal comb by encasing only the weed or weed-infested comb with generic fungistatic soil boluses.
Authors: Kanika Rawat and Kavita Isvaran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0806
Peers over the past: prior predation-risk experience does not dictate antipredator responses of individuals in groups
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Behavioral carryover or modulation of antipredatory strategies by assessing predation risk from past experiences is found to be more relevant in solitary Aedes aegypti compared to the groups, potentially reflecting contextual plasticity of the response in light of the diluted predation risks experienced in a group.
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