Insects {ant, insect} (Formicidae) can be wingless and live in colonies. Saharan desert ant (Cataglyphis fortis) tells direction by light polarization and tells distance by counting number of steps and adjusting for weight. Ants take dead ants out of the nest {necrophoresis}. Dolichodial and iridomyrmecin decrease after death. Other ants can detect ant dolichodial and iridomyrmecin and so do not take ants out of the nest.
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