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Sentence Examples We came home yesterday to find ants marching along the hall carpet and scurrying around the skirting boards. Some mammals, like tree pangolins and tamanduas eat arboreal ants and termites. There is a happy ending, however, as Zigby, pricked by a guilty conscience, builds the friendly ants a new home out of mud. The slave-making ants go to the nest of another ant-species to rob pupae, which are carried back. Cases abound in natural history studies of ants, chimps, baboons, etc., who, in extremis, give their existence for continuity of their kin. Many of the first explorers in the New World wrote home about army ants, as have more contemporary writers, natural historians, and the like. The tamandua feeds on ants and termites which it catches with its long, sticky tongue. In both ants and fig wasps, male morphology and the place of mating are not completely linked. Field and genetic research on slave-making ants has ballooned in the past decade. The seeds of the pincushion protea are buried in the ground by ants, and germinate only when mature plants have been killed by fire. For example, there are more species of ants inhabiting the hill called Black Mountain in Canberra than there are in all of Britain. They use passive remote sensing instruments to detect sunlight reflected by mounds and mark areas infested by imported fire ants. He had tried to get out of the house, but there were ants swarming all over the door. Today this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. Then we discovered tool-using animals, chimpanzees using sticks to dig ants out of anthills. The ants consume the honeydew as food, thus sustaining the life of both insects. I got home yesterday evening to find the kitchen absolutely swarming with ants. Anteaters have long snouts which they thrust into ant-heaps in order to devour the ants or termites. The ants were the most prolific of the insects we were likely to encounter daily. From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour. Show More Sentences You had to go barefoot in the temple, and with food offerings on the floor the place was swarming with ants. Bees belong to the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants. An uneven battle ensues, in which the slave-making ants can be said to win the war. And ants are in the order Hymenoptera, which is the same order as wasps and bees. In between he done swole up like a bunch of fire ants bit him, but he's better now, and we shan't talk about that. Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency. Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones. I've thought that fire ants had killed off most of the lightning bugs like they have the horned toads. For instance, guests of ants are called myrmecophiles, which means ant loving. The author explains how, aided by a thousand eyes, ants navigate and how they use dead reckoning. Fire ants are tied with snakes as the number one predator of eggs of the black-capped vireo, a ground-nesting bird, he said. Unlike fire ants, which are known for their aggressive behaviour towards humans, the Argentine ant looks just like the average household ant. One of the baffling things about social insects such as ants is how their co-operative behaviour has evolved. Maybe it's just God trying to tell me to keep still and stop acting like I have ants in my pants, to just be calm and happy that all is well. Sanders attributes the Argentine ants ' success primarily to its superior foraging and piracy of other ants' food finds. Instead of sending out reproductives to a mating flight as most ants do, the Argentine ants reproduce by budding. Usually you can sit beside the trails of army ants and watch for guests as the line goes by. In tropical vegetated seabird colonies such as Aride, predatory ants may feed on tick eggs and larvae thereby reducing tick levels. We made films about army ants in 1954 but we were only able to film in the full sunshine and very few things behave in that way. It wowed the kids, especially when the million Costa Rican army ants were fed their ration of live crickets. Show More Sentences Because velvet ants usually travel alone and are not social, a person is unlikely to receive multiple stings. Fender's blue larvae have specialized glands that produce secretions rich in carbohydrates and amino acids that ants use as food. If bees and butterflies have apiaries and ants have formicaries, wasps have vespiaries. Frogs eat a number of different garden pests including slugs, ants and other bugs. The principal collections are those of ants, termites and myrmecophiles, of grasshoppers and crickets and of butterflies. Much of Wilson's intellectual development and explorations have originated from his in-depth study of insects, especially ants. An essay about myrmecologists, scientists who specialize in ants, provides a real glimpse of what science is. The U.S. military funded a key 1953 conference on animal behavior, encouraging myrmecologists to seek the practical applications of ants. The chickens also have reduced the fire ant population by eating the bugs and seeds the ants would have sustained themselves on. While fossilized specimens reveal that bulldog ants were once widespread across the globe, today they are found only in Australia. While you're at it, open a vintage claret to wash it all down and break out the chocolate-covered ants for afters. Ants love sandy soil so if you add plenty of humus, such as compost, you'll end up with dark, moist, friable soil and no ants. Self-taught in macrophotography and entomology, Ogawa specializes in documenting the social life of ants, wasps, and bees. First time it happened, he explained he had fallen asleep while eating bikkies, and that a trail of ants had started crawling all over him. There were large piles of insect parts being piled up outside the nest, beetle shells, a bee head, dead ants. In fact, when the ground is still warm from the fires, ants, wood beetles, millipedes, and centipedes are busy. New World tropical leafcutter ants create colossal underground metropolises, each housing several million workers that tend huge fungus gardens. All Krystal could do was laugh, bellyaching squeals of laughter, as she watched Sid performing a little jig trying to get the ants off. Vibrational communication is an important component of the mutualism of lycaenid and riodinid butterfly larvae with ants. This indicated that treehoppers benefit from ants in ways other than receiving protection from predators. Show More Sentences In addition to attractants, repellents are being developed to keep fire ants away from areas where they are a nuisance. Alternatively they may climb trees in search of tree ants, as do the pangolins or scaly anteaters of the genus Manis. They were all giggling and tee-heeing like a bunch of 9th graders going to a dance with ants in their pants, he thought. It rips open bee trees to feast on honey, honeycombs, bees, and larvae, and will tear apart rotting logs for grubs, beetles, crickets, and ants. Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend a lot of time on the ground probing for ants. It's an example of self-organizing cooperative behavior, and it's found among ants, bees, and other social insects. For example, ants, termites, many bees, and some wasps are social insects that form organized communities. They also enjoy beetle grubs known as bardees and green tree ants mashed into a paste with water and used as a drink. However, if you see a black cloud of thunder bugs or flying ants around, zip up the tent door quickly. Insects such as ants, mealy bugs and thrips have been found in 37 out of 43 shipments, which then needed fumigation. There are 22 species of harvester ants in the United States with most occurring in the west. Harvester ants will eat almost anything but their favorite foods are fresh vegetables and fruits. Fire ants feed on almost any plant or animal material, including vulnerable reptile and ground-bird hatchlings. Soldiers began to emerge from the swollen hatchways on the surface like ants pouring forth from their hill. He found that fire ants use their stinger not only for defensive purposes but also for pheromone dispersal. The woodpecker digs deep into the trees in search of carpenter ants to eat. A few more of these and you'll have no more problems with carpenter ants in this house! Insects, especially beetles and ants, are the main food of Downy Woodpeckers. The ants are attracted to the sweet gel and can take a stomachful of poison back to their mound. And after identifying worker ants in several of the fossils, he believes that ants had already begun to specialize into castes. Show More Sentences The ants are duped by chemicals into accepting, nurturing, and protecting the butterfly caterpillar as one of their own. I have had ants in my cavity wall for years and I can't seem to get rid of them although I have tried proprietary ant killers. Beavers fell trees, elephants trample plants, ants strip trees of bark, moles dig tunnels, and so the list goes on. Honey ants store nectar in their bodies to sustain their colony during times of drought. He could have added that they also consumed mayfly larvae, caterpillars, beetles, and ants. Yes, honeypot ants are eaten as a delicacy in some countries, including the US and Australia. The monstrous plant ballooned out over the rest of the forest like a giant among ants. An extreme example occurs in honeypot ants, where some ants have enormously expanded abdomens that serve to store honey for the colony. We have honeypot ants in the genus Myrmecocystus and lots of carpenter ants in the genera Camponotus and Formica. Don't stand in any one place too long or the fire ants may swarm all over your feet. Many of the structures associated with feeding are modified for feeding on ants and termites underground. Over at Peter's there has been talk of flying ants and mozzies that seem to be attacking us in their thousands this year. And like wild dogs after a wounded buffalo, the ants swarmed over it, their terrible serrated jaws clamped tight or biting, biting, biting. I try not to step on ants or swat bees so hard that they fall dead to the ground. In other news, I'm listening to some popular music and swatting tiny ants off me while sitting at John's computer. For example, in some of the parasitic species, the males infiltrate ants while the females take up residence in grasshoppers. They don't look like ants and they can be pretty scary when there are big clumps of them. Upon inspection we discovered ants crawling in and out of every hole in the computer. When the wasp attacks the larval butterfly, it drives the ants to attack each other, turning them into incidental casualties. Meanwhile, at the research station, Carl and Marian were filming and photographing the ants we had collected. Show More Sentences The insects most likely to cause allergic reactions are wasps, honeybees, hornets, yellow jackets and ants. Stinging insects in the U.S. are bees, yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and fire ants. Leaf-cutting ants travel from their nests to trees and hack off bits of leaves, which they grip in their mandibles. My former ant loving celly, Penguin, would be in seventh heaven if left to his own devices with the field ants. Emigrations were induced by removing the roof slide from the old nest, forcing the ants to find a new home. It consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that cooperate with each other. Snakes, poison-arrow frogs, and bullet ants can be dangerous, and he often relies on the experienced parataxonomists. Dangerous and wild animals, like poisonous snakes and stinging ants, inhabited their rain forests. Ooze into the shadows and try not to sit on a copperhead snake or a bed of fire ants. As we watched, cockroaches, earwigs, isopods, and other small arthropods ran to escape the advancing waves of ants. Donald Feener is an ecologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who studies the relationship between parasitic flies and ants. He has red hair, shouts incessantly and moves as though a colony of ants has invaded his tracksuit trousers. Farmers have traditionally used sugary solutions to attract red ants to feed on insect larvae. He said ants are highly valued by German foresters for eating insects which attack trees. Conversely, the trail intersections homeward-bound ants encounter have branches that fork at a sharp angle and a gentle one. There is also a rhesus monkey that answers to the name of Joe, and a glass-enclosed formicarium loaded with ants. Keep the formicarium dark, except when you are observing the ants, and even then use as low a light level as possible. Developing young create a frothy mass commonly known as cuckoo spit on plants in the early spring and summer to hide from predators such as ants. Eastern woodlands Aphaenogaster ants make twenty-inch-deep nests occupied by a few hundred workers. Basically your garbage pail is the hippest new fusion cuisine restaurant in town for ants. Show More Sentences He fumbled the key into the padlock, his gaze warily watching one of the three remaining ants. As many as a third of all plant species in the fynbos are dispersed by ants. The world is groaning to a halt, and yet the ants continue their relentless labour under sunny skies. Mind you, ants like the sugar water all right and no doubt bees will find it too! Aphids, grasshoppers, and gall wasps appear in the Cretaceous, as well as termites and ants in the later part of this period. The ants are preparing, the birds are building their nests, and the beaver is constructing his dam. Outside were long lines of ants and other small insects hanging around and seemingly without very much to do. At this point the leading ants panic and backtrack to the safety of the swarm. Some will give a colony of ants an extra push to bring sugar and food to it's families. The next time either of those two ants meet any other ant, the information they pass on will be different. I have so much energy that the little kids I baby-sit told me it looks like I have ants in my pants. The model is applicable more generally in species that have dimorphic males, such as some other ants, bees, and fig wasps. He appeared to have ants in his pants, refusing to stand still for a minute. He would dart out his tongue right and left, as rapidly as lightning, and lap up the ants in quick succession, with the most laudable gulosity. This clever housing arrangement is also guarded by soldier termites that protect the mound from invading ants. If you can find a hole where ants are entering the house, squeeze the juice of a lemon in the hole or crack. With all respect, if we look from one perspective, it is just like looking at ants. This is applicable especially, but not exclusively, to so-called social insects such as bees, wasps, ants and termites. The animals you need to look out for in the forest are snakes, bees, driver ants, and wasps. Scores of dark brown driver ants with saw toothed jaws slashed through flower and leaf, devouring everything it their path. Show More Sentences New World army ants and driver ants from Africa are swarm raiders, hunting above ground. The species has been shown to display nepotism as the worker ants favor the broods of the queen to whom they are most closely related. They are large reddish wood ants, Formica rufa, the Formica referring to the formic acid they squirt at intruders. As I watched, several kinds of ants crossed my view, followed by a tiny red mite, a sizable wolf spider, and two colorful jumping spiders. Fire ants prey on karst invertebrates and the surface community food base upon which the karst species depend. We all kept busy like ants in an anthill, repainting our restructured domiciles. The ants probed the caterpillars much less often than they poked at mealworms. He also wanted to clarify the allowances for using pesticides to save homes from such pests such as carpenter ants and termites. The ants are a school project in which the students hope to learn how low gravity may affect the ants' behavior. Twice I've seen winged red ants streaming out of their anthills, and twice I've smelled something really sweet in the air. Leafcutter ants cut neat scallop shapes out of leaves, which they carry home to their underground colonies. The ants move the aphids to fresh parts of the plant, and they protect them from attack by other insects. Nature's most voracious predators are wolf spiders and army ants, not polar bears. Dusky antbirds neither join in mixed species flocks nor regularly pursue prey displaced by army ants. To hold on, insects, including ants, rely on small claws or on sticky foot secretions. Suhr said the Argentine ants killed native ants and the insect life they normally preyed upon, posing a major threat to biodiversity. Pipits of the genus Anthus will apply ants to their plumage for cleaning, a behavior called anting. What's more, does anything except the odd ant lion and rare aardvark eat ants? And on top of that, the crazy ants have this mutualism with a scale insect, so you can also get a dieback happening in the canopy as well. Experts also found a tree 10 metres away had been badly damaged by white ants. Show More Sentences Apart from the problems with the Tiwi Aborigines there were the white ants and the occasional cyclone which made life rather difficult. In many parts of the world, ants set up house in hollow swellings that form on tree twigs or leaves. Hundreds of builders work like ants to construct walls, foundations, stairs, lift wells. Among the Caribs, the girls undergo a similar ritual, except that stinging ants rather than wasps are used. Bites from bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and fire ants are typically the most troublesome. To scientists, that's as bizarre a finding as a queen bee spawning a colony of ants. Also, the aardvark is reported to eat wild cucumbers in addition to ants and termites. Various types such as guest ants, temporary parasites, inquilines or permanent social parasites, and slave-makers or dulotic species are known. Rather than phytotoxins, the plant is protected by vicious stinging ants that live within the hollow stems. The lodge is built from cypress pine, a standard building material in the mallee country, due largely to its resistance to white ants. Valley Kit Homes can also supply treated pine or steel frames to some rural areas, to ensure against white ants. The skeletons of outsized Victorian sofas and armchairs lies dotted around the parquet floors, their chintz entirely eaten away by white ants. Flowers were slightly more tubular at the timberline, where ants are more abundant. This year, without making a conscious decision, I've been sweeping ants carefully into dustpans and removing them to the back yard. Lurking in these holes, the ants grab the legs and antennae of unsuspecting insects. One reason fire ants are so troublesome is that they commonly short-circuit electrical equipment of all kinds. Self-taught in macrophotography and entomology, he specializes in documenting the social life of ants, wasps, and bees. Bizarre honey-pot ants, whose distended stomachs are full of honey, also provide a sweet treat. In Florida, he said, the most common reason air conditioners break down is because fire ants short-circuit the electrical components. But anteaters with longer tongues found more ants and so were able to better survive to have more, and healthier offspring. Show More Sentences Wherever possible, try to simply deter ants by sprinkling eucalyptus oil or crushed garlic cloves along their paths. The air over the high purple heather was dense with heavy black gnats, flying ants, and scary but sleepy long orange and black insects. At the highest speeds, ghost crabs, cockroaches and ants exhibit aerial phases. In South America, anteaters evolved long sticky tongues that enable them to feed on ants and termites. As the name suggests, anteaters eat ants and termites in vast quantities, sometimes up to 30,000 insects in a single day. Huge nests of meat ants, five to ten meters across and seething with hundreds of thousands of big red-and-black workers, dominated the more disturbed swaths of open terrain. When ants carry morsels into their anthills, we call that work ecology. We got permission to take down trees that were infested-we had ants everywhere. Johnson says if growers are finding ants in their fields, this is a very strong indication of high aphid populations in that general area. I tossed and turned, and finally Shirley said something like I had ants in my pants, something like that, anyway, and decided to walk the house to try and fall asleep. Last, but not least, you'll have to make sure you've got an assortment of warrior ants guarding your anthill against unwanted insects and animals. They pile on top of each other like ants on top of an anthill. They scurried around like ants when you pour water down an anthill, with no awareness of the world around them, as if the earth began and ended with high school. I battened down my kitchen and ants venturing inside seemed stumped. Some bugs, like ants or yellow jackets, do carry small amounts of venom and should be avoided. Without presuming to answer the question, he demonstrated how natural selection works to refine instinct in such cases as slave-making ants or hive-making bees. Five tall, slender mushrooms with yellow stems and glowing orange caps reach through the decaying foliage toward the sky as ants burrow underground. Now ants have this relationship with aphids where they looks after aphids and move them around and eat the sweet sticky substance aphids secrete onto plant leaves. The eggs of some stick insects, like the seeds of many plants, have nourishing appendages that encourage ants to pick them up and carry them away. They will kill all your fire ants and carpenter ants and termites. Show More Sentences Termites tend fungus gardens, leaf cutter ants make underground compost heaps and many species of other ants tend and protect aphids for their honeydew. The ants were obtained by scraping the surface of the ground to find the vertical shaft of the nest that led down to horizontal chambers where the honeypot ants were located. Plagues of bugs, germs and ants swarm through the pages of her books. They will also nest and swarm in cars and other vehicles and there's nothing more annoying than getting swarmed by a billion tiny ants while driving. In the present study, we use the parameters provided by reproductive skew models as a guideline for factors that may determine reproductive sharing in polygyne ants. I counter with my stories of the hunting prowess of spiders and ants. We also found that one particularly aggressive predatory ant species tended to attack bugs carrying eggs, and gangs of these ants could succeed in killing them. Reading the hundreds of blog entries about Huffington's site from today is like watching a swarm of fire ants invade a robin's nest and turn the chicks to red pulp. Scientists have long been fascinated by ants because of the extraordinary way they organise themselves into colonies that display purposeful activity. Seeds landing on or near the mounds of granivorous ants are expected to be consumed because foraging activity is presumably highest near active nests. By feeding one of the ants a small amount of dilute sugar water, we were able to distinguish workers from the two subcolonies during the trials by differences in abdomen size. In the dark of the night, the rat-size slow-moving animals sniff with their long tubular snouts for ants, insects, grubs, and small reptiles that venture forth. While methanol is a naturally occurring chemical found in tomato juice, formaldehyde is a poison used to kill fire ants and to preserve dissected specimens in biology lab. This dulotic character of many ants continues to stimulate research. I was so fascinated by ants, wasps, and doodlebugs that I would have squatted in the road all day too, but unfortunately I did not inherit the slow gene. The worker ants prey on other insects and can chew holes in fabrics, plastics and rubber goods, including the insulation of telephone or electrical wires. Would the relevant ancestors have been thrifty ants, squirrels and bees rather than the profligate grasshoppers and elephant seals appealed to here? Find an anthill, step on it lightly to disturb the ants, without getting stung place a piece of indicator paper over the ants. The fruits are follicles with seeds having an aril that is attractive to ants and other seed dispersers. Journalists and bloggers swarm over the shutdown like ants on a dropped twinkie. Show More Sentences Medical surgical product indicated to eliminate acarids, fleas, ticks, louses, ants, cockroaches, flies and mosquitoes. In a few moments the place was overrun with large yellow ants issuing forth from the mango. In a natural history museum I once saw a large exhibit, a colony of ants enclosed in a glass case. Ideal for controlling ants, cockroaches, spiders and other common household bugs. Millipedes, ants, bacteria, fungi? all these organisms have very specific roles to play. Residents have not tried to make the ants into a big commercial enterprise. The Atta ants subsist almost exclusively on a particular species of fungus which they cultivate on a medium of masticated leaf tissue. He carried, as he always does, an aspirator, a plastic tube that he uses to collect ants. Their research clearly pointed to mud dauber wasps and bees as the closest cousins to ants. The conclusion is that ants descended from mud dauber wasps, which are known for building pie-shaped nests out of molded mud. If you are going to use big-headed ants for pest control you will have to know what they look like. Kills all kinds of crawling insects such as spiders, cockroaches, earwigs, ants, fleas and silverfish. Kills earwigs, beetles, spiders, bed bugs, ants, cockroaches, wasps, silverfish and other crawling insects. Controls many household pests such as ants, cockroaches, crickets, earwigs, fleas, silverfish, sowbugs and more. Diatomaceous earth will also control both slugs and ants, but must be reapplied after rain. His drama is modestly scaled, but his anthill is convincingly alive with ants. Primarily a gene has to face other genes, an ant has to face other ants, an anthill has to face other anthills. Alternatively, an insecticide can be used that will simply kill the ants. Arthropods smaller than 1 mm, ants, isopods, and arthropods with aposematic colorations were excluded from the counts because these are rarely consumed by insectivorous birds. For your gaming pleasure, a whole new assortment of mutant insects have been created including killer roaches, acid-shooting houseflies and fire ants. Show More Sentences To see how Argentine ants fared when invading Europe, Keller and his colleagues collected ants from 33 spots along the coast from northern Italy to northwestern Spain. Previous studies indicate that extreme unicoloniality may have arisen in introduced populations of Argentine ants after the loss of genetic diversity during introduction. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. Intricate reticulated patterns appear in the passageways of the fungus gardens of African termite colonies, and in the crisscrossing trails of foraging army ants. Similary, species that follow army ants were more diverse and more abundant in this study in older second-growth and old-growth forest than in the younger site. The average length of the daily raid system of the army ants studied by Burton and Franks was 195 m, and chipmunks forage within 160 m of their burrows. The ants reciprocate by stinging anything from other insects to cattle that dares try to eat the acacia's leaves. Most chemical inputs are banned in cities, but a mild, low-toxin pesticide called cabaril is allowed, to protect seeds from ants. Everyone is working like ants around the station and eager to see each piece slot into place. The river provided water to drink for all the inhabit ants and domestic animals. Thus, the various groups of ants can't be coupled any more, and one attends a forced specification, with the formation of new subspecies. I'm ashamed to invite people to my home with ants crawling on the floors, on the walls. From the ridge they look like tiny soldier ants crossing a gigantic white tablecloth, pincers in the air. This will keep the hive out of the reach of ants, termites and other enemies. Picture: Introduced yellow crazy ants have contributed to the collapse of the Christmas Island ecosystem. She had plunged her hand into the dirty washing basket, only to a find it a seething black mass of ants, attracted by my son's ice-lolly-soaked T-shirt. Up at dawn and with no one else in sight, whether we were tracking a pride of lions or examining a column of ants, every minute heralded a new experience for both of us. Although their diet includes some acorns and beechnuts in the fall, pileated woodpeckers eat mostly ants, flying insects, grubs, and some seeds and fruits. Populations of howler monkeys, iguanas, and leaf-cutting ants exploded. The bomb craters were so deep we couldn't walk down into them, so we struggled around their rims like ants, fighting for a purchase in dirt, muck and shattered roots. Show More Sentences As a result, verifying if relationships between ants and certain heteropterans are reciprocal has become a challenging field of scientific inquiry. Benefit to homopterans is tested by manipulating the presence or abundance of ants, and the density of predators is compared between treatment and control groups. The ants had established regular colonies in the cavities with a queen, workers and brood, together with coccids fixed on the inner walls of the stem. He paved over our yard, because he didn't want ants infesting the house. Every July student interns come to TFI to research everything from the improving water quality of local streams to using ants as indicator species for forest regeneration. He swooped and swerved, dived and dodged, and down below, everyone ran around like ants, evading the shells that lost energy and feel like meteors. She laughs when she recalls how he served her cereal from a box so old, there were ants in it. Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies. Japanese queenless ants, Pristomyrmex pungens, have been observed defending their nests, food resources, and recruitment trails against other conspecific colony members. Another aspect of control is to protect natural mosquito predators such as dragonflies, ants, ground beetles, spiders, water striders, frogs and snails. In extreme cases, particularly in large, monogynous colonies, such as in weaver ants, the entire body of the queen is covered by a seething shell of guards. Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years. When it comes to finding such Australian sweetmeats as witchetty grubs and honey pot ants, Aboriginal women are masters at divining underground hideouts. Once enchanted, the victim will be fed on lizards, wood ants and snakes. Fifty or a hundred yards farther on, the worker ants form a new nest, and the colony files into place, rapidly at first and then more slowly as the last guests stumble in. The pupation is often completed within the nest of the ants. The flowers of both sexes appear in late spring or early summer, and pollination occurs thanks to bees, wasps, ants, yellow jackets, and night-flying moths. Other tropical plants have been found to be toxic to leafcutter ants, mosquitoes, and other insects, and could lead to the discovery of other pesticides. The prototype had a waterproof canvas stretched over hinged timber ribs, quality-tested by letting armies of ants and termites loose on the fabric. The Argentine ants were accidentally introduced to Europe around 1920, probably in ships carrying plants, Keller said in an interview via electronic mail. Show More Sentences Or how leaf-cutter ants cultivate a specific type of fungus so precious it is carried by the queen when she starts a new colony. Insects such as the red locust, crickets, grasshoppers, and flying ants are collected in season and either fried with salt to make popular snacks or dried for later use. The space was a great big project lab, with happy geeks combing over various assemblages of wiring, motors, processors and plans like ants on a summer picnic. They also eat sap from sapsucker holes or from holes they themselves have drilled and also some fruit, flower nectar, seeds, and insects, especially flying ants. Americans love winners and they love underdogs, and when we took a sledge hammer to kill ants, people turned against us. Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function. It is thought the ants touch live wires by accident on exposed terminals, then send out chemical signals to attract others to the spot. Household insecticides are formulated as ready-to-use products which are applied against various kinds of insects, including cockroaches, flies, moths and ants. The Prince was also shown honey ants and did try a bush banana and a bush tomato. If you so much as look crossways at either of these women again I'll gutshoot you and leave you for the ants. A knocking sound alerts them to a pileated woodpecker, pecking holes to find ants to eat. Janice was tied to a giant star and had to withstand mealworms, yabbies, slime, green ants and cockroaches. Mr Khan further said that pangolins used their long claws to dig out ants and termites from mounds and logs and then eat them. Postmortem artifacts made by ants and the effect of ant activity on decompositional rates. In the Amazon rainforest, lemon ants are said to have a tangy flavor. For example, you can watch birds at a birdfeeder, squirrels in the park, or a colony of ants. Our one bird feeder, a bright red plastic affair filled with nectar for the hummingbirds, has so far attracted only ants. Queens of socially parasitic inquiline ants reproduce by laying eggs in the colonies of other species. Terpenes are well known from some insects such as ants, hemipteran bugs, sawflies, and termites. Besides other arthropods like caterpillars, sawflies, ants, and beetles, various spider families construct shelters on plants. Find more words! 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