Examines foraging mechanisms in ant colonies, indicating insights into swarm intelligence and ecosystem interactions.
Ant colonies scored as void objects: O=3 (no individual ant has colony-level information), R=3 (pheromone amplification cascades), C=3 (existential coupling — worker fitness is entirely through queen reproduction). Army ant death spirals are Fisher Runaway in biological swarm intelligence — Pe_spiral → ∞ as pheromone evaporation rate approaches zero. Argentine ant supercolonies in introduced ranges demonstrate D3 at ecosystem scale via removal of inter-colony discrimination. Spearman correlation between Pe_colony and foraging efficiency across ant species anchored by 25 years of Ant Colony Optimization literature.
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