Across the western United States, the industrious insects known as harvester ants are often cast as pests ... analyzed in the study to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where ...

“This may be in part because most of these studies were done on western harvester ants whose deep nests are in hard soil, so the seed chambers are not easily excavated.” With his ...

This study examines the spatial patterns of the corpse depositions of several wild colonies of the western harvester ant, Pogonmyrmex occidentalis. These colonies were presented with nestmate as well ...