Sentences with phrase «attacked by the ants»
And on their way up to the stems, they are attacked by the ants, which are patrolling the plant.»
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The tawny crazy ant (above) covers itself in its own venom to neutralize toxic compounds after being attacked by fire ants (below).
The difference was mostly in the number of attacks by arthropods, mostly ants, in the tropics.
Back in the lab, the ecologists counted up the attacks by different predators — they can tell the nick of a bird's beak from the teeth marks of a mouse or the paired piercings of ant, for example.
«The ants sacrifice their lives every evening even if the colony isn't under attack by predators,» says Adam Tofilski of the Agricultural University in Krakow, Poland, and head of an international team investigating the phenomenon.
However, such species were never found in nests of D. ossarium, which was only attacked by parasitoids which entered the nest prior to the construction of the ant chamber.
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.
Ant colonies which were specialized in defense and the care of offspring lost almost 80 percent of their brood when attacked by slave - maker ants.
And despite being the little guys, a species of «crazy» ants successfully fought off what should have been a lethal poisoning by attacking fire ants.
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.