Sentences with phrase «left by ants»

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.

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Once a male has paid attention to her, she plays hard to get by flying away, leaving the male ant to chase her down — and us humans to avoid swarms of frisky, flirting ants.

«Ant Fortune aims to provide investment options for those who are left out by the current wealth management products by lowering the entry threshold, and for those who have little time or know - how to grow wealth,» Yuan said in a statement.

Emirates stadium and huge sponsor deals we finally have had two poor years by his standards at the helm we always havent been so great and are we weak supporters or strong give him a contract i mean hes won with ants for money let him spend for once cause even if we do get new manager inflation has occured and no body else will win with the small amounts we gave him to spend and in 20 years actuall more it seems the club is finally willing to spend give him a contract let him spend and if we do nt improve which i think we will i think that the club is finally willing to spend shows were on an upturn because as long as top four the owner and board weren't and after we spend big or somewhat big for once and auba and mkhitaryan arent the big im hoping for i want more if liverpoodlians can pay 75million for a cb let wenget spend a bit and if we still do bad we can always sack him or ask him to leave wouldnt be uncommon but we owe it to him and do nt say we do not because emirates london colney that will bring in high talent here for years to come and we have never spent for him just gave little and hes always done big things with little i think he can do bigger things in his final years if we give him big i do nt see us in decline but if we sack him we will be for a good three maybe four years

They found native frogs leapt away quickly when bitten by a meat ant, leaving them less than 1 second to latch on.

Sequence of photos shows a squad of ants over 4 hours as they move in and take apart a palm - sized spider left as a sacrifice by a curious photographer

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

So too the capacity for disgust in humans — a hard - wired instinct helping us avoid infection and disease — is also exhibited by leaf - cutter ants.

They compared the leaves of acacia plants which were inhabited by either mutualistic or parasitic ants to leaves from which ants had been removed.

Intriguingly, the leaves of acacia colonized by parasitic ants showed more leaf damage from herbivores and microbial pathogens than did the leaves that had mutualistic ants.

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.

«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.

(The experiments performed by Grinath's team included removing all ants from some rabbitbrushes, allowing just a few ants on others, and leaving the ants alone on still other plants.

Although these interactions might be simple (one ant merely following the trail left by another), together they can solve difficult problems (finding the shortest route among countless possible paths to a food source).

If an agent does not arrive when needed and expected, queens can generate new copies that take over the lost agent's task, just as a garden ant picks up the trail left by its sister before she got trodden on.

Some experts wondered whether the ants met their nitrogen needs by simply harvesting tons of leaves and then throwing away the excess.

Instead of dispatching their young competitors directly, adult male ants smear them with bodily fluids, leaving them with a bullseye marking them for assassination by worker ants.

It required a level of teamwork and self - sacrifice usually achieved only by ants carrying leaves and / or ruining picnics, and best of all, it was deliberate.

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.

«Ant birds follow the ants from the sky and feast on the remnants left behind by the ants.

In light of this, Andrea Marina Alma and colleagues tested whether the leaf - cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis reduces the problems imposed by Patagonia's strong winds by increasing the number of workers that are better able to deal with this environmental factor (i.e., larger ants).

This week on The Collision, we talk about last week's news that Edgar Wright had left Ant - Man followed by Drew Goddard leaving Daredevil.

Picking up where the post-credits scene from this summer's Ant - Man left off, the trailer shows Cap and Falcon trying to figure out what to do with a problem like Bucky, with the formerly brainwashed former sidekick currently being pursued by the authorities for that whole «tried to take over America with flying death fortresses» thing from The Winter Soldier.

Feige goes on to say that by the end of Ant - Man, it'll leave the door open for Hope Van Dyne (played by Evangeline Lilly) to have her own Pym particle - powered costume.

«A Bug's Life» on Blu - ray: Beautiful high - def transfer of the lively 1995 Pixar computer - animated tale of a free - thinking ant (voiced by Dave Foley) who leaves the colony and — in a kind of homage to «The Magnificent Seven» — recruits a ragtag troupe of circus bugs to help battle predatory grasshoppers; has many new extras.

It's a film that wants to be the middlebrow version of a Todd Solondz picture, meaning that it's going to kick over all manner of seething social ant piles but turn away at critical junctures and ultimately reassure by leaving its anti-hero paterfamilias sadder, wiser, and with a 1.2 million - dollar salary with which to staunch his psychic wounds.

Bees, drugged by the heat, lay down in the flowers, ants reclined on beds of leaf mould, flying rats gave a liquid coo - burble — then stoppered up.

On the ground, a river of tiny green leaves moved up the path, carried by industrious leafcutter ants.

In «Ardent Nature,» prompted by the exhibition's title, we began to read these unstable images as landscape allusions, now imagining ourselves confronted by echoes of trees and distant, rolling fields, now by an ant's - eye view among blades of grasses and leaves.

They weren't carried off by other ants, either, and instead left voluntarily.

Since individuals of this species are usually occupied by obligate acacia - ants, the Beltian bodies are rarely seen because they are usually «harvested» as soon as the young leaves develop.