“…In this study, the following compounds were identified in the habitat: mainly saturated hydrocarbons, aldehydes, and alcohols, and, in a lower proportion, esters, ethers, ketones, terpenes, aromatic compounds, amines, and phenols. Gordon (2021), Jaffé (2004), Kaspari (2003), and other authors have previously established that the following pheromones regulate most of the life of ants: acetates, aldehydes, alcohols, alkanes, and ketones (Cantúa-Ayala et al, 2019;Cruz-Labana et al, 2023). Paterson and Adams (2022) have determined that alkanes are the main components of the tracking, warning, and sexual pheromones of family Formicidae.…”