Sentences with phrase «other ant colonies»

It features underground tunnelling, nest construction and fast - paced battles with insects, arachnids and other ant colonies.

Not exact matches

They will tear other species to shreds, but when ants from a colony in Argentina meet their brethren in Japan, the long - lost cousins get along swimmingly.

The European Research Council opens up its checkbook to fund Marco Dorigo's latest efforts to get networks and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of ant and other colony insects

Certain ants are soldiers, and others are farmers; leaf cutter ants famously haul large chunks of plant material to their colony, upon which they grow a fungus they like to eat.

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.

Although the parasitic fly kills only about 3 per cent of a colony per year, its presence is so disruptive that it gives other ants a chance to compete.

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.

The team additionally showed that chemical signatures of ergatoid pupae and hatchlings are distinct from other classes of ants in the colony, explaining how adults can pick out which newborns to fight.

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.

In a new study, researchers report that big - headed ant colonies produce larger soldiers when they encounter other ants that know how to fight back.

Surprisingly, these conserved gene sets were also associated with several other biological traits, which evolved multiple times in ants, such as number of queens in a colony, whether an ant species is invasive or not, and the degree of worker sterility.

A monogyne colony will accept only the original queen and kill any other that shows up; these ants are very aggressive in general.

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But the new study is unique in that all of the ant workers started with a clean slate — they hadn't been exposed to interactions with other colonies that might incline them to act in one way or another.

They found that — not surprisingly — bold, risk - taking colonies were more aggressive toward other ants and were more efficient at collecting food.

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.

Certain ants attack and enslave other species, and integrate their offspring into their own colonies in order to survive.

Other research has suggested that ants also use trophallaxis to spread the colony's odor, helping them identify their own nest mates.

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].

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.

The naked mole rat is also one of only two mammal species that are «eusocial» — meaning they live in a colony like ants, termites or bees (the other species being the Damaraland mole rat).

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 ants.

Foreign Exchange came into fruition (literally) from an interest in democratic networks and systems with an absent central point of power: The mycelium material is similar to certain threads of the Internet, and other organisms» webbed biospheres, such as honeybee hives and ant colonies.

To pick up the ant colony analogy, the ant that comes back with food from a new foraging area will be followed by at first a trickle of other ants, but if they in turn bring back food and other ants going to other places don't, the tide will shift for awhile to the new foraging area.

If it finds food it will follow the trail back to the nest and leave more pheromones, creating a stronger trail which the other ants in the colony will follow.