Bob Vander Meer, Mentor

Pooja Gupta placing fire ants in vials.

Pooja Gupta's project examined the effects of alarm pheremones on different species of fire ants.  She also studied how the phorid fly, the ants' natural predator, reacts to the presence of the ant species' alarm pheremones.

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