They overfeed the ants and starve the ants; they mix and match ants of varying age, life experience and transgenicity.
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And not normal ants — BIG-ASS ANTS WITH FUCKING WINGS!
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A few ants spaced well apart behave like individual ants.
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When ants are looking for a new nest, ants stop by potential new spots and lie down so other ants can detect their pheromones.
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During that time, the queen ants birthed new generations of worker ants.
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The ants don't have a queen and reproduce clonally, meaning female ants lay eggs that don't need to be fertilized to produce more female ants.
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By climbing a nearby plant, the dying ants could infect new ants, too.
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Would the rest of the "working" population join these idle ants and simply do nothing, forever, while the artificial ants plug away, performing the jobs organic ants used to?
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Why are the Formica ants doing this to the trap-jaw ants, do we know?
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Once inside, the ants were trapped with only other worker ants and millions of corpses.
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Larger ants break open the nest; smaller ants follow, rushing in to grab the prey.
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At nearly 0.8 inches (20 mm) in length, Matabele ants are among the world's largest ants.
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Lois Lane was being attacked with fire ants, and he couldn't even save her from ants.
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First, some basics: Ants use their antennas to pick up chemical cues left by other ants.
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In insects, there are only two examples of rescue behavior, Frank says, and both are in ants: the animals sometimes dig other ants out when the nest caves in, and some ants try to rescue others when they're attacked by antlions — insects that feed on ants.
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Instead, when the injured ants were aided by other ants, the mortality risk went down to zero.
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Other species of ants tend to be more territorial and less tolerant of ants from other nests.
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They are also facing stiff competition from "alien ants," so designated because Hawaii has no native ants.
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Peppermint essential oil can also repel ants; just dab it in the areas where ants are gathering.
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They also compared normal "hairy" silver ants with a sample of silver ants that had their hairs removed (the researchers used a tiny scalpel to shave the ants, which must've been incredibly tedious).
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So instead of dying, these ants remain functioning members of the colony — and that benefits all the ants.
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First, the Formica ants squirt the trap-jaw ants with a stream of formic acid that stuns them.
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Specifically, it derives from the word nkran — "ants" — to reference the abundance of black ants around the area.
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Ants have higher biomass than humans, meaning the total mass of all ants exceeds that of all humans.
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Also, despite the reputation that ants have in fables as industrious, some ants were more persistent than others.
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Moreover, termites were originally called "white ants" by Europeans, and the name stuck on account of their remarkable similarity to ants, a consequence of convergent evolution (though ants and termites are only very distantly related).
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A study out Wednesday from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found fire ants cluster together to form towers of hundreds of thousands of ants more than 30 ants high, all to escape floods.
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As the ants float, they rotate, so that the underwater ants will get to the top and vice versa.
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They ply ants with radioactively labeled neurochemicals and check where in the ants' brains the signaling molecules gain purchase.
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For example, while many believe that ants are controlled by their queens, the truth is that ants have no leaders.
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Pheromones are chemical signals that ants lay down to attract and guide other ants to locations, such as food sources.
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The Verge spoke with Smith about watching ants dismember other ants, and what that can teach us about the world.
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One of the fossilized ants had specialized pockets on its head, called crypts, that are also seen on modern ants.
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In one section, the ants chased away flower-pollinating bees, native ants, spiders and other insects crucial to local ecology.
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The scientists have manipulated the DNA of these ants, creating what Dr. Kronauer says are the world's first transgenic ants.
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Then the scientists monitored the ant traffic over the course of 170 experiments, recording flow rates (the number of ants covering a given distance per unit of time), the ants' speed, and the number of times ants collided.
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Carpenter ants: "They are large, black, or dark brown ants that must have a constant water source to survive," Zehner says.
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"I want people to look at ants differently," said Chan, a 29-year-old Uber driver and member of Ants Singapore.
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The living ants had punctured the abdomens of dead ants to suck out their innards, "like opening a can," István said.
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When you look at a fire ants&apos mound, it&aposs hard to believe up to 250,000 ants call it home.
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Like these ants, Smith, too, is from Florida — and he was drawn in by the Formica ants fondness for that abattoir ambiance.
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They were like ants, the way ants swarmed over a dead animal in the meadow, except they were all running this way.
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Overseas, colonies spread freely through territories filled with weaker, ill-prepared ants, or no ants at all, and the Argentines rarely encounter a foe that can match them, save for other colonies of Argentines (or fire ants, another Paraná invasive).
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Claire spends quite a bit of time trying to survive in the wild, from finding water to the ants (dear God, the ants).
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They were, after all, a common snack of childhood, the eponymous ants of ants on a log, the chicken nuggets of dried fruit.
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When that happens, healthy ants often carry the injured ones back to the nest where the termites are removed and the ants can recover.
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During these unprovoked attacks, large ants (called majors) break open the nest, and smaller ants (dubbed minors) rush in to kill the termite workers.
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How to get rid of ants The good news is that keeping ants out of your house is a relatively simple three-step process.
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A higher tower would force the individual ants below to bear too much weight—that's why the more ants, the higher the tower they build.
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He explained that he had to import Thai ants because the Singapore weaver ants have ascorbic acid — Vitamin C — which give them a sour taste.
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"At real speed, you see a bunch of ants scurrying about in different directions on the surface of the tower of apparently stationary ants," Tovey said.
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This behavior also gets them noticed by uninjured ants, and by keeping still, the ants may be localizing their chemical "save me" signal to single location.
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Dr. Hughes predicts the first zombified ants lived in decaying wood in small colonies, and the infected ants barely got out of their nests before dying.
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So you had an artificial nest of the Formica ants in the lab, and then you brought in trap-jaw ants to watch what would happen.
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The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We RealizedImage: David Hughes/Penn State UniversityCarpenter ants of the Brazilian rain forest have it rough.
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The nests of Florida ants called Formica archboldi are adorned with the carcasses of their enemies — namely, the heads of other species known as trap-jaw ants.
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And then I did things like break the chemical code of the ants, where I worked out with chemists and mathematicians how ants speak to one another.
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Instead, whenever a route started to clog, the ants returning to the nest blocked ants traveling in the opposite direction, forcing them to find an alternate route.
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And on the total opposite end of that, I would do time-lapse video observations over like 20 to 24 hours to see what the ants were doing inside of the nest to the trap-jaw ants they collected and brought in after the trap-jaw ants were killed.
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Fascinatingly, the soldier ants also do some "triaging" on the battlefield—but the decision as to who lives and who dies is made by the injured ants themselves.
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READ MORE: Gin and Tonic Tastes Better with Ants Madden said they've found yeast in ants, but so far have only released beer with strains selected from bumblebees.
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The Argentine ants' assault on native California ant species has also led to declines in predators that fed on those native ants, such as the coastal horned lizard.
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In exchange, the ants drop seeds from the poop just outside their nests, where they're likely to germinate and grow in the ants' nutrient-rich "trash" piles. Nice!
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Mark may seem like a jerk for destroying ants wholesale, but fire ants are an invasive species, harming native wildlife and other insects that could pollinate native flora.
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Like the script-driven automatons that they are, the ants tried to navigate home based on their newly constructed internal map (remember, even though it's obvious to us that the ants are on a futile journey to nowhere, the ants are oblivious to their plight, going about their travels as usual).
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This insect, it would appear, is not a mindless automaton driven by basic instincts or environmental cues, like ants following a pheromone trail (nothing against ants, they're also awesome).
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They've really broken the code of nest mate recognition, and their whole life history adapts to being able to coexist with ants and integrate socially into colonies of ants.
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A new study of Indian jumping ants determined that ants have the same sort of thing going on, but without all of the singing or giraffes and zebras bowing.
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There was 1977's Empire Of The Ants, in which Golden Globe winner and London theatre veteran Joan Collins went hand-to-antennae with supersized toxic waste-fed ants.
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"Now, a lot of people still think that ants are pests, but with enough education, I can educate them that keeping ants can be safe," he told Reuters Television.
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No live specimens of the ants have ever been found — though ants of the same genus have been seen in India, Sri Lanka and Borneo, according to a new study.
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When the Formica ants attack, the high-speed video would show these really quick bursts of formic acid being sprayed from their abdomens and splattering on the trap-jaw ants.
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The ants often worked in crowded, narrow tunnels, and it was more efficient to have a group of the ants take a step back and get out of the way.
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If we write in CARP at 15A, hit the ENTER key down to the next row and write in ANTS right below it, what we get is CARP[ENTER] ANTS.
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For a start these "white ants" aren't ants at all but cockroaches that evolution has shrunk, blinded and turned surprisingly social (all of which does little for their public relations).
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Gazing into a glass-covered box of ants, Mr. Schwan smiled and said he planned to take the teenager and the ants along to an coming entomological conference in Düsseldorf.
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Soldier Ants Come to the Rescue of Wounded ComradesIn a behavior never seen before in an insect species, predatory ants were observed to retrieve…Read more ReadBut the termites aren't defenseless.
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Ants Among Elephants , by Sujatha Gidla (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) .
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Sericomyrmex radioheadi belongs to a genus of "silky ants," which includes ants that have figured out how to farm their own food, Ana Ješovnik and Ted R. Schultz said in their study.
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Should a colony find itself waterlogged, ants will protect their queen by forming a mass around her, as well as eggs, larvae, and pupae (ants that are in between larvae and adults).
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The researchers observed that a juvenile hormone wipe, like a forehead mark from Rafiki's thumb, caused larval ants to start producing more princess pheromone, spurning a reaction from the attending worker ants.
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After a fight, injured ants are carried back by their nestmates; these ants have usually lost an extremity or have termites clinging to them and are able to recover within the nest.
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What's even weirder is that these particular Formica ants and two different species of trap-jaw ants mimic each others' smells, according to a study recently published in the journal Insectes Sociaux.
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I remember the first time I ever filmed with little ants on camera, I was telling the camera that these little ants are so important to protect and he just started crying.
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ANTS' IDRs are based on support and are equalised with those of SGH and San UK. ANTS' obligations are guaranteed by San UK and all proceeds are up-streamed to the parent.
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" Followers share tips on catching and breeding ants, do-it-yourself ant farms and links to videos such as the giant killer ants in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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"If the fungus dies, the ants die," said Cameron Currie, a microbial ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the fungal-farming ants and their mutually beneficial relationships with other species.
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Munduruku is the name for the red ants of the Amazon jungle and Beka's tribe was given the name for the way their warrior's stand side by side like a cohort of ants.
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There are huge differences between populations of humans and ants.
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Other orders include Diptera (mosquitoes) and Hymenoptera (bees and ants).
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During floods, the ants form floating islands of stinging pain.
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So down here in the South, everyone hates fire ants.
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The ants were then sealed in with an end piece.
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Others found hope in the fire ants' strength and togetherness.
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But ants also presented the parasite with a major challenge.
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The fungi's transition to ants set off an evolutionary explosion.
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Why didn't you, for example, do a film about ants?
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You get species which all evolved to look like ants.
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"We usually call fire ants flood water species," she says.
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Mites were taking over their colony of Yellow Crazy Ants.
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It's an existential dread — should the ants be considered people?
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But the ants surprised Wong in a more significant way.
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This is why scientists refer to ants as a superorganism.
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The ants aren't acting out of any kind of compassion.
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"She said, 'I've got ants in my head,' " recalls Miller.
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Essential oils can also drive back ants from your home.
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If ants can do it, why not small hexapodal robots?
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Like the ants that ate the sugar on your canvas?
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The yoghurt and rum drink with Singapore ants blended in.
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All ants live in a chemical world governed by pheromones.
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The ants, craving carbohydrates, would swarm all over the poison.
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Clumps of fire ants have been spotted floating in floodwaters.
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The army ants were traveling through the Costa Rican rainforest.
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Ants, like people and rats, can become addicted to morphine.
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Generally, though, ants groom themselves scrupulously when exposed to pathogens.
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What he learned is that ants access their storage vertically.
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Other insects caught included aphids, ants, wasps, bees, and moths.
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People are just like ants, when you think of it.
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From a distance, all the artists look like tiny ants.
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They'd just look at us like we look at ants.
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As she bathed, dead ants fell out of her vagina.
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Look down there — don't the people look just like ants?
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Wilson began his career as a taxonomic entomologist, studying ants.
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The trails alert other ants that food has been found.
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Creatures including ants, rodents, reptiles and house pets are displaced.
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The trail of ants climbing to the ceiling began there.
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About 240 species of ants grow underground gardens of fungi.
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Worker ants coat eggs with certain strains of these bacteria.
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Leaf cutter ants can store sperm for around ten years.
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Early on, the ants were stricken by a mite infestation.
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In academia, the ants used it to escape the lab.
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Let's not place humanity in the position of those ants.
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They found that it's only the most average ants that wind up trapped, with relatively small and relatively large ants being able to escape owing to the funny mechanics of friction at ant-scales.
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AntsCanada was able to determine that the mites and ants could live together but the ants would need more space to move away from the mites when they're in their adult, garbage-eating stage.
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The ants have evolved over millions of years to treat the injured, so that those mates can recover, take part in raids again, and remain functioning members of the colony — benefiting all the ants.
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It was the ants that got him into trouble, long after his death, when the National Portrait Gallery included, in an exhibition in 2010, some footage he shot of ants crawling over a crucifix.
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Leaf-cutter ants don't like to leave garbage lying around, so they've developed a system whereby dead fungus, rotting leaves, and the remains of dead ants are plopped atop a dump away from the colony.
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By comparing the jaws of Dracula ants and trap-jaw ants, a genus of tropical ant whose mandibles reach speeds of 140 miles per hour, researchers can see how similar functions evolved in different ways.
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For ants, this Borg-like behavior makes a lot of sense.
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But there aren't enough ants below to support a higher tower.
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Tovey speculates that the ants are basically doing the same thing.
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Ants didn't take over the world by being stupid and cowardly.
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There's mutualism between ants and these wildflower species in eastern forests.
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Another difficulty was finding the ants' nests in the first place.
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GODDAMN HARVEY COULDN'T YOU AT LEAST KILL THE FUCKING FIRE ANTS?
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Each zombifies a different species of ants or attacks other insects.
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How fire ants build the wriggling ant towers of your nightmares.
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Fire ants have waxy bodies that allow them to repel water.
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What can these ants tell us about the world at large?
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Male ants exist purely to mate, and then die shortly after.
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"Ants Among Elephants" is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir.
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The ants then haul their dead prey back to their nest.
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There were ants crawling on my grandmother's feet in the hospital.
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Indeed, social insects, such as ants, remove and bury their dead.
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Because it's cute and even ants need a place to chill.
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"They look like little worker ants," said one user on Twitter.
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The ants look around a bit, and finding nothing, file off.
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A colony of ants is a very large family of females.
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A perennial favorite was the beef tartare seasoned with black ants.
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The shape of these living nests depend on the ants' surroundings.
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E.O. Wilson will never get a prize for ants or sociobiology.
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The ants ate everything, even if there was some collateral damage.
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I called the front desk and told them about the ants.
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Like honeybees, ants often face important decisions about relocating their colonies.
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Termites evolved eusociality long before other insects like ants and bees.
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Sometimes that robot is shooting a laser gun at some ants.
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Comparing traffic as a function of density, in ants and humans.
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What do humans, ravens, octopuses, ants, and alligators have in common?
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Unlike humans, ants are not facing a crisis of antimicrobial resistance.
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Sometimes resident bacteria on ants take up a gene from competitors.
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Unfortunately, many play Aesop's carefree grasshopper instead of the prudent ants.
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An estimated 100,000 so-called "ants" lived in Beijing in 2010.
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ScienceTake Fire ants build rafts, composed of themselves, to escape floods.
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The bots themselves and the system they make up are modeled on trap-jaw ants, which alternate between crawling and jumping, and work (as do most other ants) in fluid roles like explorer, worker and leader.
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Corruption, violence and religious extremism follow in cycles of misery: "When the water is high the fish eat the ants; when the water is low the ants eat the fish," goes a Cambodian saying he records.
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When he walked back to see the damage he'd done, he noticed that the healthy ants were helping out only those that had lost one or two legs, ignoring the ants that were in worse shape.
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The latest battery of experiments at Stanford's Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab dealt with harnessing the power of ants in robot form— specifically, researchers hoped to replicate ants' ability to work together to haul very heavy objects.
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After studying the ants in more detail, the researchers learned that wounded or distressed ants cry out for help by discharging two chemical signals, dimethyl disulfide and dimethyl trisulfide, which are secreted through glands in the mandibles.
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He was out in the field, searching for native ants in the shade of an old oak tree, and as he walked up to greet us he was distracted by a line of ants in the road.
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Fire ants are probably the only animal I hate a little bit.
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Black ants have the texture of caviar and a sour citrus flavor.
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During the competition, Wozniacki complained of flying ants throughout the second set.
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Three exploding ants exhibiting exploding behavior when confronted with a weaver ant.
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In your area, what effects have you studied that don't involve ants?
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So it's kind of like a little Eiffel tower, but for ants.
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The ants wouldn't even get close to honey, Wong told National Geographic.
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The ants have huge colonies with millions of citizens all co-operating.
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Cataglyphis desert ants, who dwell in Saharan salt pans, have it tough.
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India.
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The dickhead butterfliles intentionally keep the ants from feeding on this nectar.
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African Matabele ants regularly risk death and injury while hunting down termites.
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My favorite game involves target practice against an army of virtual ants.
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What's more, heavily injured ants will actively sabotage efforts to rescue them.
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These ants love eating the larvae from a yellow-faced bee nest.
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Videos of astoundingly stupid stunts involving bullet ants would suggest he's correct.
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The future of art is bacteria, ants, and the smell of sweat.
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As I watched the ants scatter, I wondered at my own motives.
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It was altruistic ants that posed a particular problem for Charles Darwin.
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Leaf-cutter ants are insectoid farmers, growing fungus to feed their colonies.
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Okay, so here's the conclusion I've reached: no, the ants won't die.
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The genetic bond between certain colonies of Argentine ants is particularly strong.
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Early species of ants likely existed more than 165 million years ago.
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Ants destroying your cabinets, eating your food and climbing into your mouth?
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Instead, they mostly catch spiders, ants, and other critters that can't fly.
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An ants' nest can be found at the top of a redwood.
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It's pretty similar to the circle of death, which ants participate in.
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But ants are nearly brainless, and few consider them capable of empathy.
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This didn't have to do with some ants being lazier than others.
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They endure fire ants, suffer sunstroke and nearly drown in sucking mud.
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Any more fire ants working at once, and productivity suffers, scientists found.
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The armadillos were easy, but the ants required a bit of work.
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Scientists have studied the ants for their unusual ability to band together.
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They started to think about how they could help the ants escape.
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In the end, the scientists marveled at the ants' perseverance and adaptability.
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Ants will make bank after many entitled drivers hide under their beds.
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And yet the ants still manage to keep these pathogens in check.
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Phoebes sallied after sun-warmed flying queen ants and spring azure butterflies.
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They removed the urn from the cavity, brushing off dust and ants.
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Among clonal raider ants, there are no permanently designated workers and queens.
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The ants had no architectural plan; they operated on a few rules.
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The gallery smells musty and has begun to attract flies and ants.
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I didn't hurt any cows, dogs, cats, or frogs, or fucking ants.
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Incredibly, upwards of 95 percent of ants who were brought back to home base managed to recover and then participate in subsequent raids, compared to the 32 percent of ants who died on the battlefield without any help.
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After initially examining the ants with a microscope, Larabee then scanned the heads of the ants using a "micro-CT" imaging system, which uses x-rays to capture three-dimensional images of the internal structures of tiny things.
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And the ants do this by just following three simple rules: This is the first time ants have been filmed building their towers, Guy Theraulaz, an animal behavior researcher who was not involved in the study, told Nature.
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I peered down at the far side of the valley to a small dirt airfield and beyond, to the old port where the ants had first arrived, and where the war on the ants was about to begin.
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Daniel I. Goldman, a physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his colleagues, found that the secret to efficient tunnel digging by fire ants was that 30 percent of the ants did 70 percent of the work.
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She had driven to the beach to collect sand for a restoration project on Santa Cruz Island, where invasive Argentine ants were swarming baby birds in their nests, interfering with native plant pollination and crowding out native ants.
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The most familiar examples are the fully eusocial ants, in which many sterile female workers do all the chores, a single large queen lays all the eggs, and a sprinkling of male ants, or drones, supply the sperm.
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The future role of ANTS in the SGH group is likely to change as a result of the changed ring-fencing plans, but we do not expect that the group's propensity to support ANTS will reduce as a result.
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If I can't find ants at Home Depot or something, I do have a bunch of Nerds Rope sitting at home, so maybe I'll just leave that out in my room and wait for the ants to find me.
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Similar changes might be happening with the ants, or the bees, or any number of other species on Santa Cruz, but we'd never know if we allowed invasives like the Argentine ants to take over and dwindle their populations.
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Footage has surfaced showing ants swarming together to stay afloat in the waters.
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He gets to play a guy being chased by ants on her stage.
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The "trap-jaw" strategy has evolved independently at least four times among ants.
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My anus feels like it's being attacked by an army of fire ants!
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Ants are group workers, like the pyramid builders we associate with ancient Egypt.
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The Argentine ant is an extremely aggressive species that muscles out native ants.
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The ants aren't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, however.
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"The vicinity is renowned for its venomous snakes and poisonous ants," she cautions.
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Tropical Storm Harvey is no match for the determined ferocity of fire ants.
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They can't know how many other ants need to fit into this structure.
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The researchers think that the ants probably eats tiny invertebrates or insect eggs.
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"We watched spiders getting instantly killed by this army of ants," Rabosky explained.
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Their agricultural ways resemble an assembly line, with different ants doing different jobs.
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The more ants that use the trail, the stronger the pheromone scent becomes.
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In particular, the ants prefer to nest in a tree called the cuaniquil.
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Psst, the ants build these rafts by putting their babies on the bottom.
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" The pilots, she said, were like children "torturing ants with a magnifying glass.
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"These ants have a very complicated medical system, one could say," Frank says.
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But it would be a mistake to say that individual ants are unremarkable.
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Then the ants start multiplying, and the whole cycle starts all over again.
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But how do the ants know who's going to be their next monarch?
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Such is the case for a "colony" of wood-ants in Western Poland.
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But as Darwin observed, ants and other social insects are not in competition.
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Of course there is a perfectly scientific reason behind this behavior in ants.
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Ants leave behind a trail of pheromones for their little buddies to follow.
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Pain insensitivity allows highveld mole-rats to live alongside venomous Natal droptail ants.
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Ants, an incredibly cooperative species, don't have much when it comes to brains.
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Trump is revealed to be a wall of ants wearing a suit. 250.
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She also said she ate currant fruits, pine needles and ants to survive.
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Hawaii had no native ants at all until trade and Europeans brought them.
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Think of a magnifying glass that redirects sunlight to burn and kill ants.
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But about two-thirds of the ants given morphine chose it over sugar.
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Ants are the first nonmammal to display drug-seeking behavior, the researchers said.
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Beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts and crickets are the most popular.
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The next day, Ross said workers found her father covered in ants again.
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Instead, ants were consumed whole, or in some other stewed or powdered form.
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As the ants walked the slopes, the researchers exposed them to stressful stimuli.
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" Trump will have to settle for another moniker: "Ants at the national picnic.
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When autumn arrived, the ants refused to share food with the hungry grasshopper.
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It's simple: 30 percent of the ants do 70 percent of the work.
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All the ants used their antennas to sweep the trail side to side.
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The water turned thick and oily, boiling with angry clusters of fire ants.
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Fire ants are no stranger to the surface during tropical storms and hurricanes.
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One of the ants leaped out of the Tupperware box onto my shirt.
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Forager ants use these to travel throughout their territory in search of food.
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Sure, trim the fat, but that was like killing ants with a sledgehammer.
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Sometimes, those ants also fart inside the brain—and then the brain explodes.
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Merian noted how the ants took the leaves below ground to their young.
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One image — of ants crawling on a crucifix — was singled out for criticism.
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He has recorded the sound signatures of ants, insect larvae, wolves, and viruses.
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The tiny beetles are everywhere, but most interestingly, in ant and termite colonies, where they evolved to live as social parasites, mimicking the ants in body shape and producing chemicals that in some cases even convince the ants to feed them.
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The project's funding is ending soon, and for now the group is working to understand what the ants' goo is made of and publishing papers based on their observations, as well as describing several more new species of exploding ants.
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In an experiment described in Science Advances, Erik Thomas Frank and his colleagues at the University of Würzburg in Germany forced injured ants, or ants with termites still clinging to them, to try to return to the ant colony without help.
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In a new study published in February's issue of Nature, agriculture professor Eisuke Hasegawa found that widespread laziness in ant colonies can actually make the group stronger—the lazy ants act as reinforcements when the hard-working ants get burnt out.
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Elton John played their lead frenetic quickfire anthem "Ants" on his Beats 1 show.
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SUPERFICIALLY, INDIVIDUALS of a species of jumping spider called Toxeus magnus look like ants.
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Ants are not, however, the only group of unrelated animals that T. magnus resembles.
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So, the trap-jaw ants were restrained and filmed with a high-speed camera.
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Realtime countdown clocks are the ants of the public transportation system: small but mighty.
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The compounds basically alert the healthy ants to the need for a rescue mission.
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I look down, and in the carpet are literally THOUSANDS of ants crawling around.
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You'll find ants thriving in the deserts of Australia, and termites in parched Namibia.
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Fortunately (for the researchers, and absolutely no one else) fire ants have invaded Georgia.
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Atomic tests in New Mexico turn regular ants into gigantic monsters who terrorize humans.
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Then suppose that the hotel knowingly leaves out food that might attract fire ants.
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The researchers also found something else when they were measuring the trees' wounds: ants.
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Your daily dose of yuck and awe: a fungus that turns ants into zombies.
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Featured Article: "After This Fungus Turns Ants Into Zombies, Their Bodies Explode" On Oct.
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These ants build large structures with their bodies without a leader directing the colony.
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Honestly, these ants look a bit scarier than Daenerys's dragons on Game of Thrones.
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But despite their new name, the ants' shy nature makes them decidedly un-T.
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They kept flailing to make it impossible for the healthy ants to carry them.
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Ants crawl inside an illuminated maze that covers the wall like an integrated circuit.
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Even your pet's food can attract ants, so don't leave out bowls with crumbs.
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Species like painful fire ants have crossed oceans and continents to colonize new lands.
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On another, trompe l'oeil ants crawl among the feathery, gilt tendrils of Bocksay's work.
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Fire ants crawled across his body, and a hot red rash flecked his skin.
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Several advanced exotic theories of his amnesia—mutant fire ants, electroshock therapy gone awry.
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It's the type of predatory behaviour that's been witnessed on ants, but not arachnids.
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I'm looking at all of these people and I think, ants can move mountains.
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Deceived a second time, the ants turn on the first ant and kill it.
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Most poisoning systems acted too fast, killing ants either upon contact or soon after.
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Photographer Daniel Kronauer tracked a colony of nomadic army ants to get this shot.
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Experts estimate that ants outnumber humans by a ratio of about 140,000 to 1.
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So, after a time, the ants moved in the opposite direction from the nest.
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Most people just want to hear crazy stories about getting stung by exotic ants.
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A DDoS attack is an assault by an army of digital ants (infected devices).
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Ants also show up in accounts of traditional Arabic, Central Asian, and Russian medicine.
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Now, Red Ants Pants has 10 employees and offers a range of work clothing.
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Trump can no more surrender the spotlight than an aardvark can swear off ants.
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That's what the ants told me as I gazed at them, troubled and fixated.
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It was during those long hours outside that he started getting interested in ants.
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"It's like a war between ants and elephants," said Xu Caiyuan, an activist investor.
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They set ants out on trails and recorded dozens of hours of ant movement.
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They analyzed the video and tried out different computer models of the ants' behavior.
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Unlike many here, he does not think of humans as ants in his experiments.
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The campaign, largely in 2015 and 2016, appears to have killed off the ants.
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Bees are praised for their pollination skills and ants are lauded for their industry.
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I dumped the full container of ants on the stone parapet of the roof.
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"Swinging is in our blood," said Ants Tamme, director of the Estonian Kiiking Federation.
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He will observe his characters as if they are ants under a magnifying glass.
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Online, the video inspired stories about the ants in Wired, The Verge and elsewhere.
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Science Want to know how ants figured out farming millions of years before humans?
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Animals of all kinds, from ants and butterflies to sheep and monkeys, use medicine.
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But in the same drawing, she incorrectly lumped together army and leaf-cutter ants.
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The photos here capture the feral cats, pigeons, and ants swarming in sidewalk cracks.
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The major ants wandered away from the colony and began to forage for food.
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Ants self-regulate, adapting the "rules" as needed when things start to get crowded.
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It was probably looking for ants among the rocks, although compost can attract them.
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An Aboriginal community leader showed him how to suck the sweetness from honey ants.
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The ants have powerful allies in this war: bacteria that live on their thoraxes.
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What is surprising is that the chemicals used by the ants work so well.
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One important advantage is that the bacteria on ants make several antimicrobials at once.
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He fell onto the bed and she swarmed over him like ants on honeycomb.
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The list includes flowers, fish, corals, spiders, sea slugs, ants and lizards, among others.
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It was constantly in flux, with ants climbing, falling and building all the time.
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Leafcutter ants pour over the rain forest like an armada of green-masted ships.
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One study, published in 2011 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, explains that the ants form the raft's shape with their legs, and fill in the spaces with smaller ants, allowing for more connections to hold the raft together and better buoyancy.
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In a study published in the journal Asian Myrmecology, Wong and Yong described the timidity of the ants when they were brought to captivity: The ants, when intimidated by an intruder, typically curled up and remained motionless until the intruder moved on.
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Van Arnam is hesitant to connect his work to traditional medical uses of ants, though, as he's not well versed in them and his research has examined the molecules in the lab rather than the load of them on ants in the wild.
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Whereas normal raider ants will happily pile on top of one another whenever possible, the knockout ants avoided the crowd, instead wandering around on their own for days at a time, as though they were nothing more than the average asocial beetle.
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This potential updating of physical law will be slim consolation to unlucky average-sized ants.
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Click here to view original GIFThat sinking feeling: X-ray view showing the sinking ants.
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For groups with as few as six ants, individuals began behaving differently from one another.
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These are ants and not humans, so any comparison between the two has its limits.
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During the show, the contestants prepare wallaby tartare with green ants and goat cheese mousse.
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KARACHI, Pakistan — Walking along the beach recently, I met a man who was feeding ants.
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But, as far as is known, none relies on those ants to scatter its seeds.
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That's a floating mass of fire ants and it made my hair stand on end.
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But only in recent years have researchers probed how these fungi go about zombifying ants.
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He also went on expeditions of his own, turning over leaves to find zombified ants.
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"They're mostly solitary creatures, with a very different life history," compared to ants, she said.
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The military struggles to eradicate the giant ants before they can proliferate and doom humanity.
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But it's a bit of a surprise that these T-rex ants survived at all.
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Besides a few ants and spiders, the tree was also surprisingly devoid of creepy-crawlies.
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Use baits to get active ingredients into the colony and kill ants where they hide.
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Colonies of fire ants, having swarmed together, were floating around like rafts of live embers.
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But as he walked back inside, he noticed ants marching out from within the petals.
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Scientists call it "total internal reflection," and it's what gives these ants their unique appearance.
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Also, the young ants, or brood, contributed by adjusting the workers' positions and raft shape.
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Sounds noble, but these ants—who spend their days attacking termites—are simply being pragmatic.
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The lack of birds [was] maybe [because] the nestlings were being eaten by the ants.
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Leaf-cutter ants are dominant herbivorous insects that are ubiquitous throughout Central and South America.
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The SNL star wore a white sweatshirt, black track ants and black-and-white sneakers.
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Pay attention to stinging insects such as bees, hornets, wasps, fire ants, and yellow-jackets.
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Ants were ground into flour, and June beetles were caught and roasted on the fire.
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We buy chips too, but they turn out to have dead ants in them (okay??).
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Alien ants crawl into politicos' ears, turn them extra partisan, and sometimes heads literally explode.
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The ants formed a scaffold of vertical chains by interlocking the claws on their feet.
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Just weeks later, the eggs hatch into young cicadas that look like small white ants.
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Ms. Pfeffer and Dr. Wittlinger also observed ants navigating with no external cues to help.
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Sahara desert ants are known to use a kind of dead reckoning to judge distance.
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Winston grew up a bright but troubled boy, who had an inordinate fascination with ants.
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An individual ant has limited cognitive abilities, but collectively, ants can solve extremely complex tasks.
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But our closest genetic cousins, chimpanzees, use stick probes to extract ants, termites and honey.
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But the stage was still this teeny thing, it was like ants on stage performing.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A sticky, spiraling tongue forages for termites or ants.
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ANTS AMONG ELEPHANTS: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India, by Sujatha Gidla.
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The ants aren't quite patient enough to let the electoral process take its course, though.
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In the lab, the researchers used slow motion video to tease out the ants' choreography.
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But once the slope reached 10 degrees, some of the ants started to tumble away.
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For example, a Wood Destroying Insect Inspection can identify termites, carpenter ants and other pests.
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Long before early humans cultivated wheat, barley, lentils and flax, ancient leafcutter ants raised fungus.
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Monitoring will continue, but with the ants seemingly gone, the area's ecology has already improved.
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Snapshot: Above, rock ants, which use a caucus-like method to choose a new home.
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The scientists found only worker ants in the bunker, with no queen and no larvae.
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Since they couldn't move along the ceiling, the ants couldn't climb back up the pipe.
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Before the researchers left, they noted that some ants started inspecting the boardwalk right away.
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Ants trail the walls, and the parks and gardens are all long grass and mosquitoes.
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There were flying palmetto bugs eating the ants, and a lizard eating the palmetto bugs.
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But when injured ants had help getting home, the casualty rate was close to zero.
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When the ants forage for garden fertilizer, they pick up random bacteria from the ground.
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Stretching your donation dollars: 5 tipsHow do fire ants form giant rafts to survive floods?
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The world's 12,000 known species of ants display a variety of reproductive and survival strategies.
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In this same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.
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"We had these ants in the lab, studying the rafts for several years," he said.
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When the Red Ants came back a few days later, they faced an angry resistance.
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The ants are coming from the chunk of wood I just put on the fire.
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" She also likened one soldier's behavior to "a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass.
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Brazoria County warned residents of another hazard in the flood waters Thursday morning: fire ants.
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