Sentences with phrase «by ants»

The model shows that the two types of indirect interactions used by the ants to coordinate their activity faithfully reproduce the construction dynamics and the structures built during the experiments.

The eggs of both species are laid on the outside of the colony and then eventually adopted by the ants.

If this ideal situation proved to be consistently the case in animal experiments, then there would be near - absolute certainty that the cells produced by ANT - OAR are merely cells and not embryos.

Alipay, owned by Ant Financial, and WeChat Pay dominate the still - growing Chinese market.

Because the bridge is built and repaired in a completely self - organized manner, «the construction rules followed by the ants represent a formidable source of inspiration for people working on self - assembling robots and self - repairing materials.»

My daughter got bit by an ant while she was in her bed and found several others throughout the house.

These thorns are often inhabited by ant colonies.

The leaves of D. major are rolled up to form enclosed sacs, which are inhabited by ants of the genus Philidris.

Despite its big ambitions, Wish is a well curated show that makes good use of the Albright Knox's rambling gallery spaces, transforming an expansive classical atrium into an approximation of Artpark, for instance, including documentation of land art works by Ant Farm and Nancy Holt, among others; one of Ree Morton's celastic ladders; and the hermaphroditic dog costume from Lynda Benglis's video The Amazing Bow Wow (1979).

Works by Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, James Lee Byars, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, and more.

And its Alipay affiliate, owned by Ant Financial, offers payment solutions to traveling Chinese in over 30 countries.

Using 3D imaging techniques such as X-ray tomography [2] and a 3D scanner, the researchers characterized the 3D structures made by the ants as well as the construction dynamics.

In a new article, researchers from Aarhus University describe how the waste left by ants on plant leaves serves as a valuable fertiliser for the plants — handed on a silver platter.

The effort by Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of the internet giant Alibaba, was seen as a test of the Trump administration's political and regulatory approach to China.

At that time, the network will initiate and governance decisions will begin to be made autonomously by ANT token holders.

CFIUS is also considering other China deals, including the proposed purchase of MoneyGram International by Ant Financial, an affiliate of China's Alibaba Group.

The group includes WeBank, backed by social media group Tencent Holdings, and MYBank, controlled by Ant Financial, the financial affiliate of ecommerce giant Alibaba Group.

Researcher Mônica Tallarico Pupo, a professor in the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCFRP - USP) and the principal investigator for the project, stressed that pyrazine production by the ants» microbiome was observed in more than one colony.

A species of herbivore (a larva from the genus of butterflies Synargis) being tended by an ant (of the species Ectatomma tuberculatum).

The decomposition of plant material stored by the ants increases the pH of the soil and increases what soil scientists call the exchange capacity — the ability of the soil to hold onto nutrients so that they are not washed out of reach of plants.

Researchers recorded and analyzed acoustic emissions from butterfly larvae pre - and post-adoption by the ant colony and from worker and queen ants.

And on their way up to the stems, they are attacked by the ants, which are patrolling the plant.»

To better understand the potential role of acoustic signals in butterfly larvae integration and adoption by ant colonies, scientists compared two populations of parasitic butterflies: a predatory species that feeds on ant broods, and a cuckoo species that is fed directly by the worker ants.

Being so much bigger, carpenter bees weren't troubled by the ants (Journal of Ecology, DOI: 10.1111 / 1365 - 2745.12006).

The carbon dioxide exhaled by ants contains a lower proportion of the isotope carbon - 13 than atmospheric CO2, Treseder explains.

The team found that Nomia avoided plants with weaver ant patrols, and when they did dare to land, were chased away or ambushed by the ants.

At test sites, the exposure of rock by ants accelerated the absorption of atmospheric CO2 by the rock by as much as 335 times compared with ant - free areas.

In contrast, «aphids of the alternative morph — genetically identical to the former, but white and flat — are mistaken by ants for their own larvae and placed next to them,» points out Martínez Torres.

Professor David Martínez highlights that the brood chamber of an anthill «is often fiercely guarded by ants, which devour any intruder who dares to approach it.

Because acacia leaves are touched mainly by ants» legs, she extracted the legs of mutualistic and parasitic ants and tested the effect of the extracts on the growth of bacterial pathogens in the lab.

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid.

The trees visited by the ants also had larger crowns than the trees without ants.

The resulting evolutionary tree pointed to a common ancestor that dated back to the days of the first cultivation of fungi by ants, he reports in the 17 January issue of Science.

Furthermore, the ability to colonize new habitats itself implies that the host is not entirely dependent on the services provided by its ant partner.

Bruckstein's theorem should be seen as a contribution to the mathematics of pursuit, motivated by ant trails, rather than a theory of ant behaviour.

By doing this, he believes, the caterpillars may be exploiting a method of communication developed first by the ants.

The work done by ants even forms a type of mulch that helps hold water in the soil.

The beetles can't survive on their own as they are quite specialized, with a head that's basically a straw for taking liquid from the ants» mouth and a much reduced, nonsegmented abdomen that toughens their bodies to withstand rough handling by the ants (seen in the picture below).

The experimental evidence matches what researchers find in the wild: red and green morphs coexisting on the same plant shoots attended by ants.

These values of 83 and 750, compared with the value α = 3.0 experienced by ants in towers, are strong evidence that ants stay still within their towers out of their own volition, and not because of their physical limitations.

There are very few other animals running around during the day at the open edges of these waterbodies — just ants and cane toads — and when we increased ant numbers by baiting, this didn't increase the numbers of native species killed by ants.

Even baby toads that «escape» from the ants often die within the next few hours, because they have been fatally wounded by the ants.

«Pattabhi Jois also told us that the book had been eaten by ants and did therefore no longer exist.

Unfortunately, a little later the book was severely damaged by ants and it was not possible for Krishnamacharya to preserve it.

The trailer for Marvel's Ant - Man that was teased by the ant - sized (and ant - brained, if you ask me) teaser trailer last week is here.

Other heroes joining the fray include Clint Barton (with Jeremy Renner's new look hinting at a new superhero identity); as well as Team Pym, led by Ant - Man and the Wasp.