Sentences with phrase «wounded by the ants»

Even baby toads that «escape» from the ants often die within the next few hours, because they have been fatally wounded by the ants.

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For injured raiders that do get home, another ant — usually not the carrier — steps in to treat the wound by repeatedly moving her mouthparts over it.

Some ants were experimentally wounded by pulling off two of their legs, which triggered healthy nest - mates to haul those individuals back to the colony's artificial nest.

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.

In light of this, Andrea Marina Alma and colleagues tested whether the leaf - cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis reduces the problems imposed by Patagonia's strong winds by increasing the number of workers that are better able to deal with this environmental factor (i.e., larger ants).

It's a film that wants to be the middlebrow version of a Todd Solondz picture, meaning that it's going to kick over all manner of seething social ant piles but turn away at critical junctures and ultimately reassure by leaving its anti-hero paterfamilias sadder, wiser, and with a 1.2 million - dollar salary with which to staunch his psychic wounds.

This prevents the cat from experiencing extremes of heat or cold, protects them from excessively strong winds and rain, protects them from wild predation and dangerous encounters with wildlife, protects them from insect bites such as mosquitos, fleas and biting ants, and removes the risk of getting infected with communicable disease or getting hit by a car on the road.

In my drawings, I visualise dynamics that I preceive in my everyday life, often found in nature: ants pathing by, rain falling down, snowflakes tumbling down, or branches of a birch tree in the wind.