When an ant finds a source of food,such as an open sugar bin in a kitchen,it returns to the nest leaving a trail that other ants can follow to the sugar.This is a case of
A) innate knowledge of where food is located.
B) a learned response that is an advantage of social insects.
C) a pheromone pathway.
D) marking territory.
E) higher reasoning, just as a hiker leaving signs along a trail.

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Ants leave a scent trail so that other ants may find their way to and from a food source. In this way the foraging members of the colony do not become lost and food is efficiently gathered and returned to the developing larva.Bloom's

When an Ant Finds a Source of Food,such as an Open