«What we found is that multiple times, the ancestors of these rove beetles adapted to life inside
army ant colonies,» says Joseph Parker at Columbia University in New York.
An army ant colony does not welcome outsiders.
Not exact matches
Ants, build condos, they have an
army, a queen, they will attack, kill, and steal from another
colony to support their own.
These species live in the same areas as
army ants, which attack their
colonies.
Army ants frequently move to new
colonies, so the beetle would be left searching for a new host
colony almost every night if it didn't have some way to keep up, he says.
And that
colonies of Eciton burchelli, an
army ant found on an island in Panama, migrate between bushes by constructing thick chains of
ants — formed by the interlocking of mandibles — that subsequent
ants use for transportation.
A group of
ants is called an
army or a
colony.
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