Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of...

the hygiene of the colony and their activities include undertaking or necrophoresis, the disposal of dead nest-mates. Oleic acid has been identified as...

corpse altogether. To avoid pathogens, termites occasionally engage in necrophoresis, in which a nestmate carries away a corpse from the colony to dispose...

technique in analytical chemistry used to separate charged particles Necrophoresis, disposal of bodies of dead members of their colony in social insects...

of their nests and place them on refuse piles, a behaviour known as necrophoresis. While pollination by ants is somewhat rare, several Myrmecia species...

age): one mechanism that has evolved to help neutralize this risk is necrophoresis, the removal of corpses from the nest by workers. 'Refuse piles' or...