Forager activation and food availability in harvester ants

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Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making (2009, background): “This is seen in harvester ants where foragers are more likely to stay in the nest when the return rate of successful foragers is low, independently of the return rate of unsuccessful foragers (Schafer et al. 2006).”
Personality in social insects: How does worker personality determine colony personality? (2012, background): “For example, the return rate of successful foragers determines whether or not a worker will leave the nest to forage (Schafer et al., 2006).”
Individual and collective foraging decisions: a field study of worker recruitment in the gypsy ant Aphaenogaster senilis (2009, background): “Similarly, in some harvester ants, the return of successful foragers is sufficient to adjust their foraging intensity to current food availability (Schafer et al. 2006; Gordon et al. 2008).”