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"Une nouvelle espèce exotique envahissante de fourmi - non encore identifiée avec certitude mais probablement du genre Tapinoma - a été détectée au 13e étage d'un immeuble de la commune de Las Condes à Santiago."
via Thierry Swysen sur Twitter, 23.01.2022 https://twitter.com/tswysen/status/1485063958629425154
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Une fourmi qui a une odeur de fromage ou de noix de coco moisie ! Parfum de fourmi - Les Débrouillards, 17.09.2015 [L'étude] The True Odor of the Odorous House Ant | American Entomologist, 08.06.2015 http://ae.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/2/85.figures-only [Image] The odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile via Researchers Determine the True Odor of the Odorous House Ant – Entomology Today, 08.06.2015 http://entomologytoday.org/2015/06/08/researchers-determine-the-true-odor-of-the-odorous-house-ant/ ___________________________________________________________________ « [...] Based on our chemical analysis, the major component of the odorous house ant scent was 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, a methyl ketone that has been identified in other ant species. The most prominent compounds associated with blue cheese were also methyl ketones, but no methyl ketones were found in fresh coconut. Once coconut turned rotten, however, it developed a distinct odorous house ant scent and released the same methyl ketones found in blue cheese. Interestingly, the microbes that turn coconut oil rancid—Penicillium mold—are the very same microbes used to make blue cheese….
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'Tapinoma' in EntomoNews
https://www.scoop.it/topic/entomonews/?&tag=Tapinoma
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