Desert ants navigate using landmarks around them to find home and now it turns out that they also use the location of fights with intruder ants as mental GPS markers to help them navigate when off course to find home @mpi-ce.bsky.social

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Researchers from our Department of Biochemistry have discovered a detoxification strategy employed by fungi that involves binding a sugar to spruce defense compounds, thereby disarming them. This makes spruce trees more susceptible to bark beetle attacks. www.ice.mpg.de/572033/PR_Sun

New study by Markus Knaden and his team published in @jexpbiol.bsky.social shows Tunisian desert ants link aggressive encounters to specific spots—turning fights into mental GPS markers. Social memory, not just sight or smell, helps them correct navigation. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...