... a welcome guest in your medicine cabinet. Chemists in China report identification of substances in a certain species of ants that show promise for fighting arthritis, hepatitis, and other diseases...
Roy Snelling, an internationally renowned entomologist who turned his boyhood fascination with insects into a lifelong study of the secret world of ants, wasps and bees, has died. He was 73.
DALLAS (AP) -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, ...
... to have arrived in a cargo shipment through the port of Houston. Scientists are not sure where the ants came from, but their cousins, commonly called crazy ants, are found in the Southeast and the ...
... in Australia with mathematical modeling, scientists have shown that the quality and quantity of winged queens produced by colonies of the Rhytidoponera ant vary according to environmental conditions.
New research suggests that just 9 to 20 unrelated red imported fire ant queens were responsible for the colonization of South American and the United States.
... genes that may control social organization in fire ant colonies. Published July 18th in the open- ... expression of socially relevant traits.
The fire ant Solenopsis invicta displays natural variation ...
ZURICH, Switzerland, July 22 (UPI) -- Ants traveling in the desert's relentlessly featureless terrain use vector navigation to plot their course, researchers at the University of Zurich found.
... the body and its function.
During her study, "Rebound: A Self-Management Intervention for Recovery from Ante-partum Bed Rest," Maloni will test a set of exercises and educational programs that help ...
The current U.S. population of red imported fire ants--which infest millions of acres across the southern states -- can be traced back to nine to 20 queens in Mobile, Alabama.
... that castes are environmentally determined, but recent studies on Pogonomyrmex harvester ants have found colonies in which becoming a worker or gyne is determined exclusively by genetic differences. ...
... nurture (what it eats, for example) play a role in determining the fate of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, a resilient creature found in many parts of the southeastern United States.
The stomach flu may be uncomfortable, but
consider some unlucky Central American ants. When infected by a
parasitic roundworm, the ants' abdomens resemble a bright red berry -
making a delicious ...
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Fire ants have infested several parts of Virginia's South Hampton Roads, the state Department of Agriculture said.
... the ecology, evolution and behavior program.
Rabeling does not suggest that the ancestor to all ants was blind and subterranean, but that these adaptations arose early and have persisted over the ...
