Abstract
Observations of undisturbed brood chambers of the pharaoh's ant showed that mated, mature queens regularly selected large larvae lying on the bottom of the chambers. The queens obviously obtained liquid secretions by licking various parts of these larvae. It was mainly stomodeal secretion, most likely originating from the larval labial glands, but also anal secretion and gut liquid from larvae becoming prepupae on shedding the meconium.
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