Sentences with phrase «as ant species»

As ant species extend from innocent little pismires in your yard to hellacious fire ants that plague ranches in central Texas, the Grand Cherokee family extends from the bargain - priced Laredo to the ravenous SRT that has now devoured the Circuit of the Americas.

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So Larry thinks I don't know ANTS as well as I should but I'm getting there when it comes to members of OUR SPECIES.

It's great for carpenter ants but can also kill a wide range of winged wood - infesting insects as well as about 75 other species.

But how to make sure it's alien ants you are exterminating, and not native species such as green tree ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) and meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus).

These species live in the same areas as army ants, which attack their colonies.

A University of Arizona research team first studied this ant species because of its ability to farm not just fungi, like leafcutter ants do, but other crops as well.

According to the research by Andersen and her colleagues (published in May 2012 in PLoS ONE), the actual reproduction rate for each mature zombie - ant fungus organism is a little more than one new mature organism, thus allowing the species and local population to sustain itself as long as there are ants nearby to infect.

As the first quantification of damage inflicted by Argentine ants, the study «gives us a good idea of the way native ants interact with exotic species,» says Terry McGlynn, an ant ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts says that the number of ant species falls drastically as the trees are cleared for ranching.

Now, new evidence suggests that today's slave snatchers started out as temporary parasites — ants that laid their eggs in the nests of other species and then used those workers as part - time caregivers for their own offspring.

Certain species of beetles evolved to live with and leech off social insects such as ants and termites as long ago as the mid-Cretaceous, two new beetle fossils suggest.

However, some ants also benefit from the plant's services without giving anything in return, such as the parasitic ant species Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Rats, the world's foremost invasive species, have traveled the world with explorers and traders; so have tropical fire ants, which genetic studies suggest have hitchhiked from southwestern Mexico to Asia and beyond starting in the 16th century in soil used as ballast in Spanish ships.

The nest of the highly territorial fire ant, an invasive species from Brazil and Argentina, ismade up of many identical tunnel - and - chamber arrays, which Tschinkel describes as shish kebabs, densely packed together.

Surprisingly, these conserved gene sets were also associated with several other biological traits, which evolved multiple times in ants, such as number of queens in a colony, whether an ant species is invasive or not, and the degree of worker sterility.

He balks at the idea of ants as a mere indicator species: «They're not just a shortcut to finding diversity; they are the diversity.»

The colonies of most ant species, including the harvester, are social, cooperative, seamless organisms, differing from what we think of as an individual organism only in that «they're not stuck together,» as Tschinkel puts it.

(D) This yet - to - be named species of Pachycondyla is not just another face in the crowd; unlike most ants, some Pachycondyla species are capable of recognizing each other as individuals.

As with all ants, males of the species mate and die, leaving the females to soldier on.

Miller said the researchers also plan to assemble a functional trait database for the ant communities to test whether the Harvey floodwaters favored some types of ant species — such as those with larger bodies or more - protected nests — over others.

To establish that it happens in nature, too, Vargo and his colleagues collected 30 colonies of the destructive Reticulitermes speratus, a Japanese species related to most common termites in the U.S. Like bees and ants, termites are social insects that have different castes for different jobs (such as workers and royalty).

Boulay is already on the case: His next step is to compare the effects of different personalities on the ability to sire offspring, as well as investigate the group personalities of invasive ant species.

Once a year, after the summer monsoon rains, two species of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex) join in a mad mating frenzy, as in the photo above.

But the newly found nomadic species, Euprenolepis procera, which roams the rainforests of Malaysia, is the only ant known whose adults rely on mushrooms — the fruiting bodies of fungi — as their primary source of food.

What's more, the eggs they carry might serve as food for other ants — particularly since other ant species are known to lay such unfertilised «trophic» eggs.

Other species of Zasphinctus from outside Africa are known to be predators of other ants, and the mouthparts, musculature, and skin - thickness data from the OIST researchers» study all provide evidence that the African Zasphinctus ants are top predators as well.

The scent may also repel predators, as most ant species ferociously defend their colonies against intruders.

The species the researchers collected was Solenopsis invicta, which is better known as the red imported fire ant, or RIFA.

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

Species of ants from Southeast Asia is officially classified as Colobopsis explodens for its extraordinary capability to rip itself apart in face of threats.

The species are commonly known as simply «exploding ants» until a team of researchers, headed by Alice Laciny, a Ph.D. student at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, officially classified them as Colobopsis explodens.

Every individual grass plant, every fish, every pure - bred dog, every ant is as different from another of its species as two human neighbors are.

As far as controlling its spread, the researchers caution that it is problematic because the ant is a «tramp species,» spreading throughout the world through human commercAs far as controlling its spread, the researchers caution that it is problematic because the ant is a «tramp species,» spreading throughout the world through human commercas controlling its spread, the researchers caution that it is problematic because the ant is a «tramp species,» spreading throughout the world through human commerce.

They recommend that in addition to the conventional methods used such as insecticides, increased inspections of agricultural products as well as quarantines of products infested with the little fire ant could be useful ways to control this intrusive species.

Ants (Formicidae) are among the worst invasive species, with more than 200 species established outside their native range and 19 listed as highly problematic by the IUCN.

Ants as Model Organisms to Study Species Coexistence.

With an opening that has Herzog immodestly laying out his mission statement as wishing to discover, in a roundabout way, why it is that men are obsessed with riding their metaphorical steeds into the wild unknowns, he illustrates the conundrum with a sideswipe at mankind, equating us with ants that hold other insect species as «slaves» and wondering why chimps, despite their intellectual sophistication, decline to domesticate goats to ride them on their own existential pursuits.

And from the Laredo to the Summit, the lineup shows it can transfer between tasks as needed, like any successful ant species.

Since individuals of this species are usually occupied by obligate acacia - ants, the Beltian bodies are rarely seen because they are usually «harvested» as soon as the young leaves develop.

Protozoan species of the genus Cryptosporidium, such as Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum, can cause diarrhea in human hosts who have ingested as few as 10 microscopic oocysts (egglike structures that are made of chitin, the same protein that forms the exoskeletons of ants and other insects) contained in feces or contaminated water.