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Puzzle of ants' suicide mission to protect the nest
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying social insect behaviour have discovered a remarkable example of self-sacrifice in a species of ant found in Brazil.
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Desert ants smell their way home
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Humans lost in the desert are well known for going around in circles, prompting scientists to ask how desert creatures find their way around without landmarks for guidance. Now research published in BioMed ...
Chinese ants show promise for fighting arthritis, other diseases
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Ants may be an unwelcome intruder at picnics, but they could soon be a welcome guest in your medicine cabinet. Chemists in China report identification of substances in a certain species of ants that show promise ...
Food security for leaf-cutting ants: Workers and their fungus garden reject endophyte invaders (w/Video)
Apr 02, 2009 |
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New diseases directly affect human survival and food security, especially as population density climbs. Leaf-cutting ants, one of a few groups of social insects to cultivate crops, have harvested plant material ...
Herding aphids -- how 'farmer' ants keep control of their food
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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Chemicals on ants’ feet tranquilise and subdue colonies of aphids, keeping them close-by as a ready source of food, says new research published today. The study throws new light on the complex relationship ...
How house-hunting ants choose the best home
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Direct comparison of alternatives isn’t always the best way to make a decision - at least if you’re an ant. House-hunting rock ants collectively manage to choose the best nest-site without ...
Native Lizards Evolve to Escape Attacks by Fire Ants
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Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Penn State Assistant Professor of Biology Tracy Langkilde has shown that native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks ...
Scientists reveal ants as fungus farmers
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Mar 24, 2008 |
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It turns out ants, like humans, are true farmers. The difference is that ants are farming fungus. Entomologists Ted Schultz and Seán Brady at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have published ...
Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But with advances in computer graphics capabilities, more recent cognitive theory related to multimedia learning suggests that very ...
Rapacious Rasberry ants march north
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.
New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely represents oldest living lineage of ants
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Sep 15, 2008 |
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A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendant of the very first ants ...
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