Sentences with phrase «of smaller ants»

Take slavery: Protomognathus americanus ants raid the colonies of smaller ants called Temnothorax, steals their children, carries them back to the invaders» colony, and forces them into a life of servitude caring for the young.

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EMAIL is an import - ant tool for chief financial officers of small to medium enter - prises, a survey found.

Adelaide Hills distillery Applewood has developed a strong reputation for its sometimes wildly experimental small - batch spirits (Applewood was one of the first to throw green ants into its still).

I am sick and tired of listening to how great Arsenal is Arsenal have to prove on the pitch that they are great ant thing else is just noise annoying noise the reality of the matter we are below the tenth position in the premier league and this political noise dose not make any difference what so ever to our standing in fact it devises our club into small segments the for the against and the in betweeners and the essence of a strong club its in its unity and hard work in proving to the masses that this club is a great club because of it unity its work and ethics and remember how we got here and the principles behind it

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.

To see just how important this accuracy is to the fungus, the researchers identified dozens of infected ants in a small area of the forest.

The 180 microlenses of Roger and Huang's camera is comparable to the eye of fire ants and bark beetles, but less than the fly eye, which has thousands of small eyes.

In analyses of 23 videos of five different types of animals (mice, fruit flies, ants, zebrafish [shown], and small tropical fish called medaka), the software was able to identify and correctly track individuals (color - coded trails) within those groups 99.7 % of the time, researchers report online today in Nature Methods.

Now, a team of roboticists has managed to emulate the cooperation strategy of leafcutter ants with computer simulations of small, four - wheeled robots.

In the study, Sussex scientists measured the eye surfaces of 66 small and large wood ants and created eye «heat maps».

«The romantic image of ants taking care of their aphid cattle, although very widespread, is just a small part of a story that evolution enriches in different ways.

In other robot news, a team at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, programmed groups of small robots to behave like ants.

Pym wears a small device behind his ear that allows him to instruct the ants to act as a phalanx of attackers that helps the ant - sized human hero defeat an evil mastermind.

Ants are also, according to biologist Edward O. Wilson, the premier turners of soil in the world, the chief predators of other insects, and the principal scavengers of small dead animals — all activities that ultimately benefit humans.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

An entire subset of small worker ants, for example, develops enlarged glands and seem to specialize in finding and treating fungus outbreaks.

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.

Swarms of ants can easily overwhelm young birds in ground nests and small animals like mice, Inkley said.

Given that only about 12,000 of them have been described since Linnaeus named his first ant in 1758, this is no small goal.

They also found a smaller degree of variation in the length of the front spur among and between the ant populations.

For clues into how Myrmoteras executes its power - amplified strike, scientists examined the ants first under a microscope, then using micro computed tomography (micro-CT), a three - dimensional imaging system that uses X-rays to visualize the internal structures of small specimens.

For clues into how Myrmoteras executes its power - amplified strike, Larabee examined the ants first under a microscope, then using micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), a three - dimensional imaging system that uses X-rays to visualize the internal structures of small specimens.

They cut down 16 small trees, each inhabited by a single species of native ant, from a part of the savanna not yet invaded.

The Argentine ant's takeover of coastal California is marked by small shifts in the local, native ecosystem.

Think of the Argentine ant as a city street tough that moves to small - town U.S., Holway said.

To uncover this odd rule, ecologists set up a traffic camera on a small stretch of trail built by black - backed meadow ants (Formica pratensis, pictured).

A large ant will traverse an area with a smaller number of steps than a small ant that will change its direction more often.

«Our analysis of morphology shows that worker ants are much more than just smaller and wingless versions of queens, and have a body plan that provides great strength and maneuverability to their heads.

They find that wind delays smaller ants more than larger ones and that in windy conditions, colonies increase the number of larger ants, which are better able to deal with wind.

To study this, the researchers worked with different colonies located in Patagonia, Argentina, and measured the length of both outbound and inbound laden ants, as well as the effect of experimental wind (generated by computer coolers in the field) on larger and smaller ants.

We can build up numbers of meat ants beside waterbodies at the critical times when small toads are emerging — either by laying out baits to attract the ants to the right spots, or by planting trees that the ants like to build their nests beside.

We are using colonies of artificial ants implemented as small mobile robots with simple vision and communication abilities.

An smaller format honors version of ANT 301 is also offered for participants in the Liberal Arts Honors program.

The oriental stores that carry it have 10 and 15 # bags of the stuff ant that's a bit much... Found a 5 # bag at one place from Thailand that was organic and also found TJ's carrys smaller quantity of Indian brown..

And a few drops of Peppermint + Lavender added to a small spray bottle with water + a splash of witch hazel will help keep all the ants away when eating on your patio.

We have mapped the Earth's surface, but the creatures that live on it continue to elude us; every year brings news of thousands of newly discovered plant and animal species, some large (a new kind of orangutan was confirmed last year), some small (the dragon ant of Papua New Guinea) and many whimsical, like a spider that looks like a Harry Potter sorting hat, and named Eriovixia gryffindori.

Yesterday we brought you a banner for Marvel's Ant - Man [see here], but before we get to that film there's the small matter of Joss Whedon's hotly - anticipated sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron, and a new still has officially been released featuring Earth's Mightiest Heroes (and more) all assembled in Avengers Tower... SEE ALSO: Brand new promo -LSB-...]

Yesterday we brought you a banner for Marvel's Ant - Man [see here], but before we get to that film there's the small matter of Joss Whedon's hotly - anticipated sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron, and a new still has officially been released featuring Earth's Mightiest Heroes (and more) all assembled in Avengers Tower...

Their plan to stop him is part comic book fantasy, part elaborate heist, featuring an oddball gang of conspirators (Michael Peña, T.I. and David Dastmalchian) and a small army of ants, who prove to be team players and quite personable once you get up close and personal.

As he continued to grow smaller and smaller, he passed through the microverse, where — in original Ant - Man Hank Pym's own words — «all concepts of time and space become irrelevant.»

Just a day before its release, Marvel's newest, and smallest, superhero has been given the LEGO treatment with a special brick version of the theatrical poster for Ant - Man... Lego's official twitter tweeted out the following message alongside the poster: It's @Marvel «s Ant - Man in LEGO bricks!

Some may think of Ant - Man as one of Marvel's (ahem) smaller films, but Paul Rudd's superhero debut was well - received, and earned more than $ 519 million worldwide.

Michael Peña's portrayal of Luis in Marvel's «Ant - Man» adaptation brought a sense of real world levity to the otherwise wacky superhero action movie about a man who can punch harder when he becomes very small.

The featurette gave an in - depth look at the film's world and offered a small tease for the future of Hope Van Dyne / The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) in the next installment in the Ant - Man franchise, the upcoming Ant - Man and the Wasp.

James Rhodes / War Machine (Don Cheadle) has a smaller, but meaningful role to play in the proceedings here by comparison, while Clint Barton / Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Scott Lang / Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) are the established MCU players who get the least onscreen development - but Civil War makes up for that by giving these characters some of the best action scenes in the movie.

Though partly overshadowed by the very public departure of original director Edgar Wright, Ant - Man stands apart from the rest of the Marvel pack simply by being small.

Extravagant special effects are taken for granted in superhero movies, but Ant - Man has enough imagination to make them seem both fun and necessary, whether it's during a scene where the shrunken Lang finds himself dodging Lucite heels on a dance floor or in a psychedelic, space - folding sequence set in the Microverse, the dimension of the sub-atomically small.

Fans of the smallest Marvel hero will be glad to finally get a look at this summer's «Ant - Man and the Wasp.»

The 17 - second clip features «ant - sized» clips of the upcoming movie, which normal - sized people just see as very small box in the middle of the video.

Thanks to Ant - Man's shrinking abilities, the small scaled action brought personal stakes with it, but also the chance to have some of the most interesting set pieces in the superhero genre.