Novel nesting of ants in bee cocoons in empty shells of terrestrial gastropods
The result's identifiers
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00379271.2025.2566112" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00379271.2025.2566112</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2025.2566112" target="_blank" >10.1080/00379271.2025.2566112</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Novel nesting of ants in bee cocoons in empty shells of terrestrial gastropods
Original language description
Several species of ants were reported to place their nests inside empty shells of larger terrestrial gastropods. The structure of their nests was never studied in detail. We recorded 14 species of ants nesting in empty shells of terrestrial gastropods in various habitats of the Czech Republic, of which especially small species of the genus Temnothorax were the most numerous. In steppic habitats, nests of Temnothorax unifasciatus were placed inside the cocoons of the shell-nesting solitary bee Osmia bicolor in several cases. This bee is a specialist for nesting inside empty shells and is locally common and numerous in steppic habitats in Central Europe. In two nests, remnants of a dead bee were found inside the cocoon, together with the colony of T. unifasciatus. The adult of O. bicolor probably died inside the nest and was partly eaten by the ants suggesting a scavenging behaviour. This finding is unique and interesting, brings new insight to the biology of ants and a challenge for further studies on ants nesting in empty shells of gastropods.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France
ISSN
0037-9271
e-ISSN
2168-6351
Volume of the periodical
61
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
491-496
UT code for WoS article
001610959900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105021412964