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Pesticide makes invading ants suicidally aggressive

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Neonicotinoids change behaviour in ways that could affect spread of invasive species.

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  1. Barbieri, R. F., Lester, P. J., Miller, A. S. & Ryan, K. G. Proc. R. Soc. B http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2157 (2013).

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