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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Ants from the University of Illinois Extension
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A maddening invasion of "crazy ants" has people in Texas and other states in the South wishing for the old days of fire ant invasions.
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Just as light does, ants traveling through different materials follow the fastest path, not the shortest one.
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An aggressive species is being displaced in North America by a more aggressive — and potentially dangerous — species, according to a new study.
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One of the most aggressive invasive ants in the world seems to have met its match in North Carolina--but if the arthropod challenger prevails, don’t expect it to play nice
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The second Don’t Bug Me webinar set for Friday, March 1 discusses tramp ant species such as tawny crazy ants and Argentine ants. Bethany O’Rear, a regional home grounds agent with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, will host the free webinar set for 1 p.m. Central time.
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Battles among ants can be startlingly similar to human military operations
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Insects use a wide range of tools for orientation, including visual memory, smell, and counting steps. The tricky question is how they combine and compute different kinds of inputs, and whether their methods can help us understand more complex brains or create artificial ones. Delete the scoop?
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Today, a study published by John Wang and colleagues in the journal Nature explains the answer. Gp-9, it turns out, is just one of many genes that are located on what the authors call a "social chromosome" in fire ants. Delete the scoop?
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New research finds that larger ant colonies have an edge over smaller ones. Delete the scoop?
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This Web site features topics related to ant identification and management. Learn more from UNL Extension in Lancaster County. Delete the scoop?
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The world's first detection dog for Argentine ants is being used to keep the Hauraki Gulf Islands pest-free. Rhys Jones, a Welsh springer spaniel, was certified this year to detect the aggressive Argentine ants that pose a major threat to insects and endangered native birds.
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An unbelievable look at the ponerine African ant...
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Great video. Really exciting to watch even if not a "bug nut" like us. Just rememer: "THOU SHE BE BUT LITTLE, SHE IS FIERCE!" Love it. Delete the scoop?
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What does global warming look like through the eyes of an ant? Aaron Ellison, senior fellow in Harvard University’s Harvard Forest and co-author of the recent book, A Field Gui...
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Biologist Deborah M. Gordon's decades-long study of the collective behavior of harvester ant colonies has provided a rare real-time look at natural selection at work.
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If you want to survive as an ant, you'd better get ready to make some noise. A new study shows that even ant pupae—a stage between larvae and adult—can communicate via sound, and that this communication can be crucial to their survival.
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Despite being beneficial in nature, ants and termites become pests when they enter structures and destroy property.
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Ants and aphids are known for their mutualistic relationships in which aphids will provide ants with honeydew. The ants in turn, will protect the aphids from predators. However, not all ants will protect aphids all the time.
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Natural selection can be an agonizingly long process. Some organisms have a way of taking matters into their own hands, or—in the case of the ant species Cerapachys biroi—mandibles. Delete the scoop?
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Ant colony models could help corporate project managers "find just the right balance of time spent in meetings and time performing tasks," Matt Roush reports in a tech newsletter. Delete the scoop?
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Tourists flock to Amazonian jungle lodges hoping to find monkeys, toucans, and jaguars, but most of the animals they see are insects. Especially, ants.
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One of my favorite recent projects was a deceptively simple image of an ant on black. Black is easy enough to arrange for the upper portions ...
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Researchers have discovered that an insect-trapping pitcher plant in Venezuela uses its downward pointing hairs to create a 'water slide' on which insects slip to their death. Delete the scoop?
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Trap-jaw ants, normally found in tropical and subtropical regions, have spread on the main Japanese island of Honshu, including such heavily populated areas as Tokyo, Kanagawa and Osaka prefectures.
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A group of New England biologists and ecologists have put together a detailed field guide for those who prefer to train their attention on the ground, instead: helping to distinguish the segmented bodies, toothed mandibles, and stinger positionings of local ants.
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