Sentences with phrase «of crazy ants»
Only 49 percent of crazy ants survived being dabbed with fire - ant venom when they could no longer secrete formic acid.
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This formic - acid rubdown allowed about 98 percent of crazy ants to survive a fire - ant attack.
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The tone of the commercial suggests that Coca - Cola has figured out how to bottle the miracle of childbirth, and if you want to feel the mysteries of the cosmos trickle down the back of your throat, tickling your consciousness and helping you enjoy your brief time on this crazy rock, that you should celebrate life with an ice - cold DAMMIT, COKE CALM DOWN, YOU ARE SOMETHING WITH BUBBLES THAT ATTRACTS ANTS.
On a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, supercolonies of yellow crazy ants are causing what one biologist refers to as a «meltdown» of the native ecosystem.
Biologists are experimenting with a number of control strategies, but the most interesting recent idea is to encourage Australia's native meat ants (in contrast to the crazy ants of the previous slide) to hunt the juvenile toads.
A group of tawny crazy ants (Nylanderia fulva), upstart newcomers to the southern United States from South America, was trying to steal food — dead crickets — from hundreds of red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta).
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The $ 1.5 million effort has reduced the crazy ant population, but it is too early to tell whether the web of life will return to normal.
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The origin of these «crazy rasberry ants» (named after exterminator Tom Rasberry) is unknown, but their cousins, commonly called crazy ants, are found in the Southeast and the Caribbean.
Rice University ecologists are checking to see if Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented floods gave a competitive boost to fire ants and crazy ants, two of southeast Texas» least favorite uninvited guests.
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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.
To better understand how crazies survive a fire - ant attack, LeBrun performed a series of tests.
A dab of the venom of the fire ant (seen at left) would kill some insects, but not Rasberry crazy ants (at right).
If last summer's Guardians of the Galaxy is Marvel at its most daring, then Ant - Man is the studio at its safest up until the film's climax when the picture gets refreshingly bizarre and crazy in its humor and visuals.
Over the course of the 12 different levels you will face a variety of different enemies ranging from the ordinary pests of someone's yard (like ants and gophers) to the crazy (like penguins and lava spirits).