Sentences with phrase «prey on ants»
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For their part, the ants run a protection service, fighting off predators that would prey on the other two.
This was especially true of many flies, wasps, ticks, and mites, some of which prey on the native 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.
A closer look at the video footage revealed that the ant lions moves its mandibles at different speeds, depending on where the prey animal is in relation to its head.
«Based on our earlier studies, if the ant was striking a prey object, the distance between the ant and the prey was about the length of the trigger hairs that come off the mandibles,» Suarez said.
Rather, the ants scared away other bugs such as beetles that typically prey on treehoppers.
Kids could position themselves and watch the ants come thundering down on their prey.
Both species live close to the ground in the damp bogs of southern Florida, and both prey on a variety of bugs, including flies, ants, crickets, and springtails.
They found that ants didn't prey on the treehoppers or the rabbitbrush.
At the same time, ants, being larger than the larvae, prey on the aphids» predators Copyright: Bernhard Seifert