Sentences with phrase «feeds on ant»

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.

This family of flies deposits its eggs in an ant's body, and when the eggs become larvae they feed on the ant's head, eventually causing it to fall off (inset).

Aardvarks usually sleep during the day in burrows that they have dug, and emerge at night, to feed on ant and termites, using their long, sticky tongues to sweep up thousands of insects.

The lizard feeds on ants, while keeping a watchful eye on Melocactus violaceus, a cactus that grows in open, sandy areas.

Ant - like ornaments (pictured) were a hit among the females who most heavily fed on ants that fell into the streams and rivers where the fish live; oval, egg - like ornaments were popular with females that preferred beetles and beetle larvae.

Not exact matches

Insect - based ingredients (e.g. flours), snacks and animal feeds that draw on crickets, meal worms, locusts and ants.

«We learned that the mutualism involves a third player: a species of scale insect that feeds on the tree sap and produces an excrement called honeydew, on which the ants also feed, and makes the ants a stronger mutualist.»

They sought to understand how such plants produce nectar on their flowers, fruits and leaves, to feed ants and pollinators.

The results of two new studies indicate that Argentine ants have displaced a number of the native ant species that the lizards feed on, and eating the intruders instead, it seems, is not an option.

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.

On the central tree, the ants were fed with an amino acid — glycine — where the nitrogen atom consisted of the heavier nitrogen 15 (15N).

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.

Each egg - shaped chamber in the nest of this agriculturally inclined ant is a garden packed with composted caterpillar droppings, which fertilize the fungus the colony feeds on.

«We know that you can feed larvae differentially and that will change hormone levels that will cause a completely different developmental pathway to turn on, so you get this giant head, you become a big - headed ant rather than a small worker,» he said.

The Red - cockaded Woodpecker feeds primarily on ants, beetles, cockroaches, caterpillars, wood - boring insects, and spiders, and occasionally fruit and berries.

When hunger strikes, the adult queen and worker ants visit the colony's nursery and cut holes into their own larvae to feed on hemolymph, the equivalent of insect blood.

Myrmoteras ants live in the tropics of Southeast Asia, where they feed primarily on springtails — tiny arthropods that launch themselves into the air like fleas when they detect a threat.

The coastal horned lizards feed almost exclusively on ants, but they much prefer to munch on the native varieties — exactly the ants that are driven out when Argentine ants move in.

Feeding experiments showed that baby horned lizards can't survive on Argentine ants; the hatchlings lost weight so fast that the team terminated one experiment after 2 weeks.

The larvae of these Large Blues feed on the eggs and larvae of these host ants and even adopt a «cuckoo strategy» whereby they mimic the ants» chemical substances in order to get the ants to feed them.

That means that nurse ants must be selectively feeding larvae the hormone, depending on what type of adult workers the colony needs, LeBoeuf says.

Another trick to keep ants away, as well as slugs, is to make a circle around the feeding station or bowls with chalk, the kind used to mark lines on athletic fields.

Toucans, mot - mots, Thrushes, Blue gray and the red throated ant - tanagers come to feed on the papayas in the mornings click to see our Belize bird images.

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