Sentences with phrase «on the ant colony»

Sid is the big bully who picks on defenseless Lucas who, in turn, takes out his frustration on the ant colony in his yard.

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Of course it does and is just about the most dramatic event in the lives of the ant colony it fell on they will ever experience...

He wasn't ready to imagine leaving our little house on a quiet hillside road with ant colonies in the driveway and moss on the steps.

This makes the hyperparasite another obligate parasite, which depends on the zombie - ant fungus, which depends, in turn, on the carpenter ant colony.

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.

The eggs of both species are laid on the outside of the colony and then eventually adopted by the ants.

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.

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.

The ant colony, on the other hand, could be considered to have a higher level of consciousness than the individual ant; it is certainly more intelligent.

SimAnt, in which players try to corral an ant colony into conquering a suburban home, was modeled on the insights of ant expert Edward O. Wilson.

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.

He is also documenting how new ant colonies begin, including some unusual variations on the model in which the queen digs a hole and starts things rolling.

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.

Ant workers at the base of the tree wait to attack intruders, while workers foraging on the leaves (as in the photo above), aren't as aggressive but are faster at managing the colony's brood.

«Our experiments with fipronil and bifenthrin sprays indicate that the overall kill of these insecticides on Argentine ant colonies is substantially improved — by 57 to 142 percent — by incorporating (Z)-9-hexadecenal in the sprays,» said Dong - Hwan Choe, an assistant professor of entomology and the research project leader, whose lab focuses on urban entomology, insect behavior and chemical ecology.

In a second set of experiments, the researchers exposed some queenless ant colonies to nonacosene by placing the fertility compound on a glass slide inside the nest.

But when an ant colony's nest is destroyed, the insects rely on the advice of individuals, according to a study published online this week in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

The social parasite T. americanus carries out raids on neighboring host colonies in order to steal their young, often killing adult worker ants and the queen in the process.

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

They then matched up the ants in a series of one - on - one tests to see how aggressive individuals from different colonies would be to one another.

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.

So ants from the west coast of Japan fought their rivals from Kobe, while ants from the European super-colony didn't get on with those from the Iberian colony.

In collaboration with Prof. Dario Floreano at the EPFL (http://lis.epfl.ch/) we are investigating the role of relatedness (genetic similarity), levels of selection, and group size on the evolution of collective actions, communication and division of labour in artificial ant colonies.

Pixar's second feature film directed by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton is a sweet story of an anti-hero named Flik who recruits a bunch of misfit insects to take on the evil grasshoppers who threaten to destroy the ant colony.

«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.

Based on a 2003 NASA space shuttle experiment, this ant farm redefines «lunar colony.»

And that colonies of Eciton burchelli, an army ant found on an island in Panama, migrate between bushes by constructing thick chains of ants — formed by the interlocking of mandibles — that subsequent ants use for transportation.

On the other hand, when you're playing against one character or another player, PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale works well on the Vita, however the more characters you fight, almost make the game feel like you are watching Fight Club at a colony of antOn the other hand, when you're playing against one character or another player, PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale works well on the Vita, however the more characters you fight, almost make the game feel like you are watching Fight Club at a colony of anton the Vita, however the more characters you fight, almost make the game feel like you are watching Fight Club at a colony of ants.

The wonderfully named Slug Disco Studios have announced that their ant - stounding ant colony strategy game, Empires of the Undergrowth, will be releasing on Steam Early Access next week.

In the single - player campaign, the player takes control of Formica ereptor: a unique colony of DNA - assimilating, nomadic ants embarking on a great journey.

Scientists have recently discovered that ants will act in a similarly altruistic fashion — when stricken with disease, the ant Temnothorax unifasciatus will abandon the colony to prevent it from spreading, and wait for death alone.The BBC reports on the scientific findings, which were just published in Current Biology.

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Lessons on how to fool an entire ant colony and steal their food from a newly discovered species of ant.

Before embarking on a new method, consider the following ant - colony - related questions.

Follow me on Twitter RSS Feeds Home About Career Architects About Ethan What Students Say «Education in China: A Balanced Approach to Resource Allocation???????? 2010-02-09??? -» China's «Ant Tribe & # News from Reuters.com [link] Some say these struggling college graduates who swarm out of their cramped accommodations and head to work in the urban sprawl each morning are reminiscent of worker insects in a colony.