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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Ants from the University of Illinois Extension
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Invasive fire ants have been a thorn in the sides of Southerners for years.
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Ants bring a fellow worker to help carry food that is too large to handle alone, say scientists.
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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.
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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.
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New research finds that larger ant colonies have an edge over smaller ones.
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This Web site features topics related to ant identification and management. Learn more from UNL Extension in Lancaster County.
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Ants and anthills may appear in maintained turfgrass as well as in ornamental planting beds.
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A pitcher plant in Borneo eats ants, but allows one species of them to live inside it, serving as a cleaning and nitrogen-fixing crew.
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A study showing how ants tunnel their way through confined spaces could aid the design of search and rescue robots, say scientists.
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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.
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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.
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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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Despite being beneficial in nature, ants and termites become pests when they enter structures and destroy property.
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