Sentences with phrase «as an ant colony»

A «society» may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.

And just as ant colonies are jackpots for ant look - alike rove beetles, so, too, are termite nests.

Not exact matches

But, as in ant colonies, the queen does not «tell» the termites what to do.

Especially in Texas, which would collapse into the Earth's crust if it wasn't held up by one enormous fire ant colony and where trees are just glorified bushes, «picnic» is just code for «trying not to kill one another as we gag down tepid, curdled mayonnaise».

It's Sunday afternoon and I have helped a group of second graders spot the queen of our leaf - cutter ant colony, held two fox snakes, acted as a perch for a bunch of newly hatched butterflies not quite ready to fly, and fed no less than three box turtles.

As the Living Invertebrate Specialist it is my job to make sure our adopted leaf cutter ant colony thrives in their new home.

As a deadly infection, it could severely damage an ant colony.

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

Using observational studies and experiments, the researchers discovered that a third partner, scale insects, are the most important resource affecting ant colony size and activity, as well as their effective defense against predators.

To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.

Sylvia Cremer explains where this similarity may come from: «Ants in a colony work together like the cells in a body, and colonies are sometimes even referred to as «superorganisms».

Tschinkel believes that an ant colony grows just as a single organism does, by rules that guide interactions among its cells and between it and its environment, a process called embryogenesis.

The colony is efficient as well as evasive, building a nest that closely reflects the number of ants within.

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.

As the name implies, its colonies include soldier ants with disproportionately large heads.

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.

As the colony size increased, the leaf ants showed a marked increase in the regions of the brain concerned with learning and memory, the scientists report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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).

Ant workers at the base of the tree wait to attack intruders, while workers foraging on the leaves (as in the photo above), aren't as aggressive but are faster at managing the colony's brood.

Other colony - based critters, such as bees and ants get around the inbreeding conundrum by creating new queens that leave to start their own colonies rather than stick around like the secondary termite queens.

Ants are renowned for their hive mind: most decisions are made by the colony as a whole and not by individuals.

«The formation of living structures such as the bridges is one of the most fascinating examples of the collective capabilities of ant colonies,» says Simon Garnier, a complex systems scientist with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who was not involved with this study.

These colonies were then subjected to attacks by the slave - making ants Temnothorax americanus and as a consequence were forced to either flee or defend themselves.

As researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have discovered, highly specialized ants lack the flexibility to adapt to new situations — with serious consequences for the entire colony.

Thus, flexibility in behavior would be advantageous not only for ant colonies but also in connection with quite different organizational structures as well, especially when frequent disruptions are possible.

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

But whenever ants from the main European and Californian super-colonies and those from the largest colony in Japan came into contact, they acted as if they were old friends.

To study this, the researchers worked with different colonies located in Patagonia, Argentina, and measured the length of both outbound and inbound laden ants, as well as the effect of experimental wind (generated by computer coolers in the field) on larger and smaller ants.

In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000 km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the «Californian large», extends over 900 km (560 miles) along the coast of California.

We are using colonies of artificial ants implemented as small mobile robots with simple vision and communication abilities.

The screenplay had originally been scripted by Edgar Wright (The World's End, Scott Pilgrim) and Joe Cornish (The Adventures of Tintin, Attack the Block), with Wright, who had cultivated the vision of Ant - Man for years, intending to direct, but creative differences saw a divorce from the project (Marvel became more controlling as they grew to massive popularity — a queen ant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seekiAnt - Man for years, intending to direct, but creative differences saw a divorce from the project (Marvel became more controlling as they grew to massive popularity — a queen ant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seekiant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seeking.

The game will have players assume the role of an ant as they fight off swarms of wasps, termites, spiders and more in order to protect their colony through action platforming akin to the Contra series.

Originally released exclusively in Japan for the PlayStation ® Vita in 2012, ASSAULT GUNNERS HD EDITION puts you in control of the Peace Keeping Force known as DAT and along with your three allied Battle Mechs, you must attempt to save Earth's migrants and the Mars colonies from the threat of the ANTS uprising.

As mentioned, though, Freeplay will also appeal to people who want to simply keep a virtual ant colony — all tasks in Freeplay will take longer than in the campaign (digging, hatching, etc) so will feel a little closer to reality.

Recently released in Early Access, the current version of Empires of the Undergrowth allows players to manager their own colony — think of it as the world's greatest digital ant farm — but future expansions promise additional story - driven missions.

Originally released exclusively in Japan for the PlayStation ® Vita in 2012, ASSAULT GUNNERS HD EDITION puts you in control of the Peace Keeping Force known as DAT and along with your three allied Battle Mech, you must attempt to save Earth's Migrants and the Mars Colonies as a whole from the threat of the ANTS uprising.

Foreign Exchange came into fruition (literally) from an interest in democratic networks and systems with an absent central point of power: The mycelium material is similar to certain threads of the Internet, and other organisms» webbed biospheres, such as honeybee hives and ant colonies.

As a result, there was a gap in the siding making it perfect for an ant colony to expand under the floating floor.