Sentences with phrase «owned by ant»

And its Alipay affiliate, owned by Ant Financial, offers payment solutions to traveling Chinese in over 30 countries.

Not exact matches

Ant Financial, the electronic financial services firm owned by Alibaba, is going through one final fund - raising round before it also decides whether to list its shares publicly late this year or early next year, according to these people.

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 tawny crazy ant (above) covers itself in its own venom to neutralize toxic compounds after being attacked by fire ants (below).

In contrast, «aphids of the alternative morph — genetically identical to the former, but white and flat — are mistaken by ants for their own larvae and placed next to them,» points out Martínez Torres.

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.

The beetles can't survive on their own as they are quite specialized, with a head that's basically a straw for taking liquid from the ants» mouth and a much reduced, nonsegmented abdomen that toughens their bodies to withstand rough handling by the ants (seen in the picture below).

These values of 83 and 750, compared with the value α = 3.0 experienced by ants in towers, are strong evidence that ants stay still within their towers out of their own volition, and not because of their physical limitations.

By working together, thousands of ants can stay alive in the face of a crisis like a flood by using their own bodies to build a boaBy working together, thousands of ants can stay alive in the face of a crisis like a flood by using their own bodies to build a boaby using their own bodies to build a boat.

Cooperative behaviors in ants are rooted in the kin selection advantage that shaped these insects» evolution: The female workers pass more of their own genes to the next generation by supporting their egg - laying mother than by laying eggs of their own.

Without a sense of smell, female ants wander off on their own, mooch crickets caught by others, and refuse to mate.

A lot of them are, more or less, dark reflections of their heroic adversaries with no real character of their own: Iron Monger (played by Jeff Bridges) in Iron Man, Abomination (Tim Roth) in The Incredible Hulk and Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll) in Ant - Man.

That was a few years ago, and judging by the first Ant - Man and The Wasp trailer, it's clear that Wasp is now a full - fledged superhero in her own right.

Dax Shepard («Hit & Run,» TV's «Parenthood») and Michael Peña («Ant - Man») star in the action comedy «CHIPS,» directed by Shepard from his own script.

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In Ant - Man, forced out of his own company by former protégé Darren Cross, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) recruits the talents of Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), a master thief just released from prison.

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.

However, working from a mostly sharp script by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost, Waititi doesn't so much inject humor as he gives it his own droll spin, making Thor: Ragnarok one of the funniest of the Marvel movies without seeming to exert much effort in that regard (as opposed to Deadpool or Ant - Man, which are marked primarily by their snarky, meta appeals to our funny bone).

«But it would never happen at his own hand, by his own doing... In terms of that scene in «Ant - Man,» I've seen some of the ideas people have about it and I would just say that whatever you're seeing on the surface, it's not as obvious as that.

But the heist, it turns out, was merely a test engineered by Pym, who needs a new Ant - Man to infiltrate his old company, whose current CEO (Stoller) is about to unleash global chaos by beginning production of his own shrinking - soldier costume, the Yellowjacket.

Developed by the University of Minnesota, VideoAnt allows users to annotate videos and save them to their own virtual «ant farm.»

On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache, developed a sour stomach after washing down two aspirin with grapefruit juice, guaranteed herself an epic bad - hair day by mistakenly using Dustin's shampoo instead of her own, broke a fingernail, burnt her toast, discovered ants swarming through the cabinet under the kitchen sink, eradicated the pests by firing a spray can of insecticide as ferociously as Sigourney Weaver wielded a flamethrower in one of those old extraterrestrial - bug movies, cleaned up the resultant carnage with paper towels, hummed Bach's Requiem as she solemnly consigned the tiny bodies to the trash can, and took a telephone call from her mother, Sabrina, who still prayed for the collapse of Martie's marriage three years after the wedding.

You can create your own «ant barrier» by surrounding the bowl with baking soda or a line of food - grade diatomaceous earth without chemical additives.

Start the colony of your dreams by choosing the right location and giving birth to your own little ant army!

At Life Ant, we want to eliminate some of that premium by allowing you, the consumer, to look for your own policy by comparing rates.