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  Ant (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ants (computer game), a computer game for the (obsolescent) Amiga computer system introduced in 1985 as a 32 bit successor to the Commodore.
Ant (chair), a modern chair designed by Arne Jacobsen.
This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ant_(disambiguation)   (186 words)

  
 Ant - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The first known ants appeared sometime during the Cretaceous period, and it is believed that they evolved from the wasps that had appeared during the Jurassic period.
Ants are holometabolous, and develop by complete metamorphosis, passing through larval and pupal stages before they become adults.
Myrmecophilous or ant-loving caterpillars (blues, coppers, or hairstreaks) are herded by the ants, led to feeding areas in the daytime and brought inside the ants nest at night.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ant   (1673 words)

  
 Ant - Ant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Abdominal - Acacia cornigera -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ants are one of the most successful groups of insects in the animal kingdom and are of particular interest because they are a social insect and form highly organized colonies or nests, sometimes consisting of millions of individuals.
Ants are distinguished from other insects by the following traits: elbowed antennae; a strongly constricted second abdominal segment forming a distinct node-like petiole; the petiole can be formed by one or two "parts" or segments (only the second, or the second and third abdominal segments can form it).
Ant trails have no intrinsic polarity; that is to say, an ant walking on a straight non-branching trail cannot tell whether it is walking to or from the nest.
www.geographicalposition.com /0/1/en.wikipedia/5/wiki/Ant   (3005 words)

  
 Ant - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ants are mostly wingless, which varies between individuals in a colonyrather than between species.
Ants are holometabolous, and develop by completemetamorphosis, passing throughlarval and pupal stages before they becomeadults.
The male ants, calleddrones, along with the breeding females are born with wings, and donothing throughout their life except eat, at least until the timefor mating comes.
www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=Ants   (1281 words)

  
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Ant communication is primarily through chemicals called pheromones, which, because most ants spend their time in direct contact with the ground, are more developed than in other Hymenopterans.
Colony members are distinguished by smell, and other intruders are usually attacked, with notable exceptions.\n* Some ants will raid the colonies of other ants, taking the pupae with them, which once hatched act as workers in the raider's colonies despite not being genetically related to the queen.
Myrmecophilous or ant-loving caterpillars (blues, coppers, or hairstreaks), which are herded by the ants, led to feeding areas in daytime and brought inside the ants nest at night.
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/a/an/ant.html   (1483 words)

  
 Ant Encyclopedia Article @ AnimeAndCartoons.com (Anime and Cartoons)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Ants have a wingless worker caste; the presence of a metapleural gland is also distinctive.
The life of an ant starts with an egg, and the sex, female or male, is determined by whether the egg is fertilized or not, respectively.
Some myrmecophagous (ant-eating) caterpillars secrete a pheromone which makes the ants think that the caterpillar's larva is one of their own.
www.animeandcartoons.com /encyclopedia/Ant   (2088 words)

  
 > Ant at abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The ants, one of the most successful groups of insects, are of particular interest because they form advanced colonies, and can constitute up to 15% of the total animal biomass of a tropical rainforest.
Ants appear in amber, found in central New Jersey, believed to be from the Cretaceous period.
The ants and the fungus can somehow communicate with each others, which makes it possible for the fungus to "tell" the ants if they feed it with some food which is not healthy for it.
www.abcworld.net /Ant.html   (2129 words)

  
 ENGLISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Ant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The ants are one of the most successful groups of insects, and are of interest because they form advanced colonies.
Ant colonies are eusocial, and are very much like those found in other such Hymenopterans, though the various groups of these probably developed sociality independently through convergent evolution.
Ants have often been used in fables and children's stories to represent industriousness and cooperative effort, as well as aggressiveness and vindictiveness, and ants are sometimes used as a cure for laziness (such as in Morocco).
encyclopaedic.net /english/an/ant.html   (1621 words)

  
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Ant colonies are eusocial eusocial, and are very much like those found in other such Hymenoptera Hymenopterans, though the various groups of these probably developed sociality independently through convergent evolution convergent evolution.
Electron microscope image of an ant's head Electron microscope image of an ant's head Ant communication is primarily through chemicals called pheromone pheromones, which, because most ants spend their time in direct contact with the ground, are more developed than in other Hymenopterans.
The ant is often a symbol of industriousness as well as aggressiveness and vindictiveness, and ants are sometimes used as a cure for laziness (such as in Morocco Morocco).
www.biodatabase.de /Ant   (1731 words)

  
 Ant - Gurupedia
Also, most ants are wingless, although this varies between individuals in a colony rather than between species.
Myrmecophilous or ant-loving caterpillars (blues, coppers, or hairstreaks), which are herded by the ants like cattle, led to feeding areas in daytime and brought inside the ants nest at night.
Ants have often been used in fables and children's stories to represent industriousness and cooperative effort, as well as aggressiveness and vindictiveness, and ants are sometimes used as a cure for laziness (such as in
www.gurupedia.com /a/an/ant.htm   (1521 words)

  
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It is believed that the first known ants appeared sometime during the later Cretaceous period.
Queens are different in structure, they are the largest ones among all ants, especially their abdomens and thorax which are bigger than most ants.
Until 2002, the largest known ant colony was on the Ishikari coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
en.mcfly.org /Ant   (1540 words)

  
 Ant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Estimates of the age of the ants derived from genetic data indicate that ants evolved from other groups of wasps in the Cretaceous period about 120 to 140 million years ago.
Ants are distinguished from other insects by the combination of elbowed antennae, a strongly constricted second abdominal segment forming a distinct node-like petiole, a wingless worker caste, and the presence of a metapleural gland.
Most queens and male ants have wings, which they eat after nuptial flight; however wingless queens (ergatoids) and males can occur.
www.tocatch.info /en/Ant.htm   (2808 words)

  
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Fire ants are on the march to invade more neighborhoods in the Carolinas, but some people in Lincoln County are working to keep the ants from taking over.
FIRE ants discovered in Gladstone are the same type as those found in Brisbane, but how they reached the central Queensland town remains a mystery.
TESTS have confirmed that ants found near the port of Gladstone, on the central Queensland coast, are fire ants.
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 Ant: fire ant, army ant, ant species   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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Some of the more advanced ants are the army ant">army ants and driver ants, from South America and Africa respectively.
fire ant">fire ants are unique by having a poison sac where the contents consists largely of piperidine alkaloids.
2place.org /wiki/Ant/Types   (820 words)

  
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This article is about a group of insects; for other meanings, see Ant (disambiguation).
Leaf cutter ants are sensitive enough to adapt to the fungi's reaction to difefrent plant material, apparantly detecting chemical signals from the fungus.
AntWeb, Images of more than 4,000 specimens including all ant genera, specfic coverages for California (complete), Florida and Madagascar.
www.kisanji.org /?arg=ant   (2324 words)

  
 Google (disambiguation) -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Proceratium google or "google ant", an ant species of Madagascar named after the company's Google Earth service
Google bomb, an attempt to influence the ranking of a page by having many sites link to the page with a specific anchor text
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Google_(disambiguation)   (231 words)

  
 Ant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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The Amazon is also said to have lemon ants.[3]
Moreau C.S., Bell, C.D., Vila, R., Archibald, S.B., & Pierce, N.E. Phylogeny of the Ants: Diversification in the Age of Angiosperms.
todaysnews.blogmobs.com /Animal/Ant   (2847 words)

  
 The world's top ant disambiguation websites
There are multiple topics for Ant or ANT:
;Apache Ant: a Java-based computer software system for buildss
; ANT: an acronym for Actor network theory, a sociological theory developed by Bruno Latour, Michael Callon and John Law
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