Sentences with phrase «antennating other ants»
The red fire ants, also originally from South America but common throughout the southern U.S. for almost a century, have venom so deadly that other ants rarely dare to attack them.
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When a mildly injured hunter gets carried home, other ants increase her chance of survival by repeatedly «licking» the injured leg (first video clip).
When worker ants find a food source, they systematically carry bits back to the nest, leaving a scented trail for other ants to trace to the booty.
(The researchers wanted to study the behavior of the P. morrisi they had collected, but they were killed in the lab by other ants.)
Other ants — the collectors — gather the harvest and carry it back to the nest.
Fire ants will run for cover when the flies appear, making it harder for them to scavenge, fight other ants for food, or fend off intruders, says Gilbert.
Although the parasitic fly kills only about 3 per cent of a colony per year, its presence is so disruptive that it gives other ants a chance to compete.
Arolia have been seen in other ant species, Wojtusiak says; they enable ants to walk on smooth tropical leaves.
Other ants that follow the trail lay down their own pheromones, making the trail stronger and straighter.
Parasites like phorid flies want to lay their eggs in the ants, while other ants merely want to steal the valuable real estate.
It had long been known that the ant «highways» often seen in nature (and in people's kitchens) are laid down by individual ants depositing pheromone, a chemical attractant, which increases the probability that other ants will follow the same path to the food source.
In a new study, researchers report that big - headed ant colonies produce larger soldiers when they encounter other ants that know how to fight back.
Bristling from some of the tunnels are hairlike projections, perfectly captured — the tunnels of another ant species, the tiny, sneaky thief ant Monomorium viridum, which survives by raiding the broods of other ant species.
Their giant, muscle - bound noggins power their biting parts, the mandibles, which they use to attack other ants and cut up prey.
Instead of the two or three body joints found in other ants, these ants have just a single connection between the thorax and the abdomen.
«They feed off the larvae and pupae of other ants.
They found that — not surprisingly — bold, risk - taking colonies were more aggressive toward other ants and were more efficient at collecting food.
Unlike humans, however, ants can collect this information only at close range, by antennating other ants.
«This research finding experimentally verified the long - held assumption that Argentine ants use gaster - produced compounds during aggressive interactions with other ant species.
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.
Other ants will follow that trail to find the food and bring some of it home.
When a scouting ant discovers a food source, it leaves an odor trail on its return trip to the nest that other ants can subsequently follow.
We note that ants do not remove other ants from inside the tower.
They add a pheromone to their material, which stimulates the other ants to build on the same spot, leading to the formation of regularly spaced pillars.
When an ant exits the base of the tower, it joins the other ants that move on the tower surface.
The team found that some ants used their mandibles, or jaws, to bite other ants» legs.
Other ants joined their legs together.
used to smell, touch, feel and communicate with other ants.
To get around this s0 - called social immunity, Ophiocordyceps camponoti - rufipedis leaves the zombie host just far enough from home for the fungus to thrive — but still close enough to infect other ants.
Queen determination in other ants.
Other ants will follow the trail leaving their own pheromones making the trail stronger until all the little foragers are marching along, back and forth, taking all your goodies back to their home.
If you don't clean up the trail, other ants will be able to easily find the same food source.
Background: Coffee is a major dietary source of anti-oxidants as well as of other ant - inflammatory factors.
The second explanation is Renner's The Combine is co-producing the next Ant - Man film, 2018's Ant - Man and the Wasp directed by Peyton Reed (reportedly to begin production in June), or is co-producing a future other Ant - Man film.
When ant colonies are moving or when they have found a source of food, ants leave a scent trail for other ants to follow, and this happens when an ant secretes a chemical called a pheromone.
It features underground tunnelling, nest construction and fast - paced battles with insects, arachnids and other ant colonies.
They weren't carried off by other ants, either, and instead left voluntarily.
The other ants started by digging around the restrained ant, tugging on its limbs trying to free it.
To pick up the ant colony analogy, the ant that comes back with food from a new foraging area will be followed by at first a trickle of other ants, but if they in turn bring back food and other ants going to other places don't, the tide will shift for awhile to the new foraging area.
It is easily separated from other ant - acacias by having peltate floral bracts in which the apex is tailed on one side.
Somnol ants are similar to other ants found in Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line, but sport a reddish or purple tint.
If it finds food it will follow the trail back to the nest and leave more pheromones, creating a stronger trail which the other ants in the colony will follow.
Not exact matches
Summer blockbusters trade in expectation, but it's hard to figure out what to expect from «Ant - Man» other than the prerequisite visual effects and Paul Rudd charm.
A country of hard working, productive ants, in other words, will not be rewarded with a high trade surplus, but rather with a high GDP, which should translate into a higher quality of life.
Indeed, in April, Alibaba Group's Ant Financial Services unit attracted the largest private fund - raising round for an Internet company ever, when sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. (CIC) and others invested $ 4.5 billion in the digital payments and financing platform.
CFIUS is also considering other China deals, including the proposed purchase of MoneyGram International by Ant Financial, an affiliate of China's Alibaba Group.
In Proverbs, the hard - working ant is praised as an example of a creature working diligently with others toward a common purpose.
A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you think we came from), and the human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.
Absolutely nothing special about humans compared to dolphins, monkeys, cat, dogs, or ants, other than our amazing ability for self - delusion!)