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One thoing about mice leaving scent markers. I think the ability to detect their own odor would be far less than the ability to detect odor of another mouse, because they are cvonstantly exposed to their own odor, and any stimulus weakens rapidly over time. But scent trails are very old. Ants are totally dependent on them.
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Maybe we share a poltergeist.
No, no, Jackie, I think you mean you have poltermice. [groan-e]
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I had a problem with ants returning to my pantry over and over again, despite repeated attacks by me with bug spray and ant traps, etc. (I found Windex to be a useful method of killing insects too.) No matter what I did they seemed to be back the next morning, en masse. I complained to my mother about it, and she informed me that the ants leave a trail of pheremones on the floor that leads them to sources of food, and that if I scrubbed the floor good and clean (a novel idea to be sure) the ants wouldn't return. It worked. Interesting about the mice though. So if you have mice problems you need to continually rearrange the furniture. (It works especially well against blind mice.)
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"Poltermice," says Bean.
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Karl von Frisch is best known for two major discoveries about honey bees. First, he demonstrated that honey bees have color vision, and published these findings in 191*. Second, in 193* he showed that honey bees use a dance language to communicate food locations to other bees. (from Internet)
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Thanks for the correction, Bill. The discovery dates quite a bit farther back than I'd thought - still not too awfully long ago.
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ants leave a trail of pheremones on the floor that leads them to sources of food, and that if I scrubbed the floor good and clean the ants wouldn't return
as related by the good Doctor Feynman in Surely you're Joking...
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