... and pale body color), while retaining some of its ancestor's physical characteristics.
"The new ant species is hidden in environmentally stable tropical soils with potentially less competition from ...
... like salt."
What holds true for ants may well be true of all insects and even microbes, ... and pick up more than a hundred vials."
By merely counting the ant species attracted to cotton balls soaked ...
... are especially adapted to it. How much these results apply to the other tasks performed by these ants, or other ant species, or even social insects more generally, remains to be verified. Dorrnhaus's ...
... rarely been tested.
The workers of rock ants, like those of most ant species, all look the same and do ... nest was destroyed, Dornhaus recorded how long the ants took to find the empty nest and move ...
... rather than on individuals, the researchers said. The process can be seen in the differences between advanced ant species and their more primitive cousins. The study was published in the Nov. 18 ...
... fly. It is now becoming clear that rather many ant species share this lifestyle, so that it is no ... parks and gardens and quickly exterminates the native ant fauna. It resembles the common black garden ...
... had a strong suspicion that they would also help catch reproductive cheaters.
To test the idea in one ant species (Aphaenogaster cockerelli), Liebig and Adrian Smith, also at Arizona State, mimicked ...
... , but which until now have not manifested themselves.
This data implies that many of the more than 12,500 ant species known to man can become a serious problem if adequate measures are not taken. The ...
... New results from the Smithsonian show that both the ants and their fungal crop actively combat fungi ... Bael and colleagues used laboratory colonies of one leaf cutter ant species, Atta colombica, to test ...
No male of the species has ever been found, but that's OK. "They appear to have evolved a new mode of reproduction," an expert says.
... ant colonies in hollow spaces in its limbs or leaves. The ants, in turn, protect the plant against threats from ... plants survive and grow until another ant species—one that doesn't sterilize its host— ...
Even in its native Argentina, the fire ant wins in head-to-head competition with other ant species more than three-quarters of the time.
... recorded tools, this research suggests that chimpanzees are selecting tools depending on the characteristics of the ant species they are foraging. There are several varying species of ants found ...
... lizard, which feeds exclusively upon the native ant species decimated by the invader.
In their native habitat, ... huge supercolony," said Tsutsui. "If you take ants from San Diego and put them next ...
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