Sentences with phrase «for other ants»

When ant colonies are moving or when they have found a source of food, ants leave a scent trail for other ants to follow, and this happens when an ant secretes a chemical called a pheromone.

What's more, the eggs they carry might serve as food for other ants — particularly since other ant species are known to lay such unfertilised «trophic» eggs.

When worker ants find a food source, they systematically carry bits back to the nest, leaving a scented trail for other ants to trace to the booty.

Not exact matches

Indeed, in April, Alibaba Group's Ant Financial Services unit attracted the largest private fund - raising round for an Internet company ever, when sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. (CIC) and others invested $ 4.5 billion in the digital payments and financing platform.

Absolutely nothing special about humans compared to dolphins, monkeys, cat, dogs, or ants, other than our amazing ability for self - delusion!)

It seems the world is NOT in the mood to be respectfull of each others religions at the moment, so unless the Vatican has a «Jeebus Team Six» extensively experienced in hostile extractions from third world hell holes, he might ant to ease up on the propoganda for a few days.

Like ants at a picnic, Missouri, Miami, Pitt, Kansas and Tulane, among others, are swarming, making life miserable for the bread - and - butter teams

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Some other reviewers commented about ants and food left in the hall for days.

Checking your yard for deep holes, ant hills or nests that house bees and other critters is a good place to start.

In humans, other mammals, and many other animals that have been studied — such as fish, birds, ants, and fruit - flies — regular sleep is necessary for survival.

The red fire ants, also originally from South America but common throughout the southern U.S. for almost a century, have venom so deadly that other ants rarely dare to attack them.

It's great for carpenter ants but can also kill a wide range of winged wood - infesting insects as well as about 75 other species.

For Matabele ants, however, nest cameras plus survival tests show insects treating other adults and improving their chances of survival, he and colleagues report February 14 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. For treatment boosting others» survival, Frank says, the closest documented example is humans.

Next, Huynh plans to tap ants» route - choosing talents to optimize other aspects of shipyard operation so computerized container - handling can be as sweet for shipyard owners as cookie crumbs are for the ants that inspire it.

For their part, the ants run a protection service, fighting off predators that would prey on the other two.

But while some will attack any threat that comes in their path — people included — much of their cruelest behavior is reserved for other species of ants.

This discovery of these oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone, and, by doing so, offer an explanation for how ants, and possibly other social insects, take on specific forms with dedicated jobs within their colonies.

Other research has suggested that Argentine ants outcompete native ant species for food, and head - to - head fighting crops up, too.

Fire ants will run for cover when the flies appear, making it harder for them to scavenge, fight other ants for food, or fend off intruders, says Gilbert.

Now, new evidence suggests that today's slave snatchers started out as temporary parasites — ants that laid their eggs in the nests of other species and then used those workers as part - time caregivers for their own offspring.

Waging war is just one of the habits that ants share with humans: Many species live in large, well - organized societies, and others take slaves, herd aphids like cattle, and raise fungi for food in underground farms.

«For the first time, we have shown that nutrients from ant waste are taken up by the leaves and transported to other places in the tree,» says senior scientist Joachim Offenberg, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, who was in charge of the studies.

They discovered that 19 behaviors, such as using a fist to amplify sound or using a tool held in the mouth to poke a hole in a tree and pull out chunks of termite nests, ants, or honey for a snack, appeared at some sites but not at others, and there was no ecological reason to account for these differences.

Laurent Keller at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and Kenneth Ross at the University of Georgia, Athens, were scanning the genes of various populations of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) when they noticed something strange: Queen ants who had their own colonies carried two copies of the dominant variety of a particular gene — they were homozygous for the variety, that is — while those who shared a nest with other queens were heterozygous, carrying only one copy.

That said, other fungi use similar substances to influence insects, «for example the zombie ant fungus,» says Slot.

In the U.S., MCI WorldCom (now part of Verizon) investigated artificial ants not only for managing the company's telephone network but also for other tasks such as customer billing.

To handle the demanding conditions of the Net, Dorigo and his colleague Gianni Di Caro, now at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland, increased the sophistication of the ant agents by taking into account several other factors, including the overall time it takes information to get from its origin to its destination.

At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.

Other people can find the information almost instantly and organize it any way they want — by «Madagascar type specimens,» for instance, or by «ants worldwide» found «ex rotten log.»

Ants and other creatures can not seem to resist climbing in for a swim.

«No one would assume a gene for ant fishing in the chimpanzee in the same way that no one would assume that some humans have a knife - and - fork gene and others a chopstick gene,» says de Waal.

Tiny ants may seem like an odd food source for black bears, but the protein - packed bugs are a major part of some bears» diets and a crucial part of the food web that not only affects other bugs, but plants too.

Miller said the researchers also plan to assemble a functional trait database for the ant communities to test whether the Harvey floodwaters favored some types of ant species — such as those with larger bodies or more - protected nests — over others.

Without its unique gut microbiome, which helps in the breakdown of inaccessible nutrients, the ants would have to compete with other species for more readily available food sources.

Ants play an important role in the ecosystem of forests, dispersing seeds and keeping soil aerated and as a food source for other animals, Pelini said.

«Nothing like that was known before,» says Hölldobler, who noted that the mushroom - eating ants are phylogenetically quite distant from their cousins who use fungi for other purposes, such as nest building.

But other hitchhiking species exploit ant colonies for protection from predators, to find a place to sleep, and so they can get food easily without having to look too hard themselves.

Many other species independently evolved stunning strategies; for example the caterpillars of most Lycaenidae butterflies life obligatory in ant colonies [39], many beetles are exclusively known from the safety of ant nests [40] and several snakes lay their eggs only in the fungus - chambers of aggressive leaf - cutting ant nests [41].

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

But some other alkaloids reduced the ability of the ants to walk for a time.

To get around this s0 - called social immunity, Ophiocordyceps camponoti - rufipedis leaves the zombie host just far enough from home for the fungus to thrive — but still close enough to infect other ants.

I've found the DE is especially effective for ants, fleas, roaches and other insects that walk or jump rather than fly.

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The record begins with the sense of being in a huge venue, the show is about to start, ant Arcade fire is impatient to show what they've done, then Everything now starts and you begin to feel it, it's a gorgeous move, as they use to do, after it the synthesizers start on and on, a little to much but considering thomas bangalter's influence on the album, it is pretty amazing, the lyrics are not as good as their other albums, but they compensate it with a great concept about having everything now, wanting to get infinite content and dying inside feeling the electric blue, at least i recommend the album for a few listens to grow on you people instead of criticizing it.

Among other things, an Ant - Man sequel, titled Ant - Man and the Wasp, is now set for 2018.

* Computer - animation always looks good on the format, but this direct - to - digital port would've left the home versions of this year's other CG extravaganzas (Open Season, The Ant Bully, et al) in the dust were it not for the superfluous — and conspicuous, given the preponderance of black - on - white — application of edge - enhancement.

Whereas the other untested Marvel property, Guardians of the Galaxy, won over audiences with irreverent charm, funny and likeable characters, and a toe - tapping soundtrack, Ant - Man is more content to deliver a broadly goofy and blatantly corny sensibility that makes it feel like it is aiming for a younger set than the other MCU releases, even though it does still garner a PG - 13 rating for its violence.

Ant - Man and some other characters (poor Hawkeye) were notably absent in the tussle for the Infinity Stones as Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy fought off Thanos and his fearsome Black Order in different locations.

Adam McKay confirmed that he had been in talks for the Ant - Man directing job at the end of May, but ultimately turned it down to focus on other commitments.