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	Learn more about Ant in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		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.
		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).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/an/ant.html (1552 words)

	Ant - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
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	Ant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ant communication is primarily through chemicals called pheromones which because most ants spend their in direct contact with the ground are developed than in other Hymenopterans.
		Ants reportedly be persuaded not to protect aphids by a small amount of jam on the (source BBC Radio 4 's Gardeners' Question Time of Sun 18-4-2004) may be that this displaces the farming honeydew and allows predators to remove the safely.
		Ants have often been used in and children's stories to represent industriousness and effort as well as aggressiveness and vindictiveness ants are sometimes used as a cure laziness (such as in Morocco).
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	Ant Hill Wood. \| "Go to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise!" King Solomon. (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ants have the ability to pass on their genes via the production of young male and female sexuals, which in most cases are capable of winged flight; and so can spread the species over a wide range of territory like the dispersed seeds of a dandelion flower.
		Thus, although worker ants do not themselves have the means to pass on their genes, being completely sterile and having under-developed ovaries; the genetic code of the species is carried by their sisters who hatch out as young queens.
		A parasitic ant that invades nests of Myrmica.
	www.anthill.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /britishants.htm (2252 words)

	Gordon's Ant Page
		Ants are amazingly successful creatures, on the Ivory Coast in Africa there can be as many as 7 000 colonies of ants per hectare, with an average of around 2 850 ants per colony this adds up 20 000 000 ants per hectare or 2 000 per square metre.
		Ants which have collected some nectar can carry more than they need for themselves in their crops and this extra can be shared with other members of the colony when they get back to the nest.
		Ants are not born with an inherent knowledge of all the work they have to do, but learn by copying their older nest mates.
	www.earthlife.net /insects/ants.html (2162 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Ant
		Ants are holometabolous, and develop by complete metamorphosis, passing through larval and pupal stages before they become adults.
		The male ants, called drones, along with the breeding females are born with wings, and do nothing throughout their life except eat, at least until the time for mating comes.
		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.
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	Myrms Ant Nest - What Do Ants Eat?
		The places in which ants hunt for food again is species dependant, for example, the yellow meadow ant Lasius flavus forages underground, very rarely coming to the surface, unless the subterranean supply is low.
		The amount of food that ants bring in depends on the size of the colony, but perhaps the most impressive of the British ants are the red Wood ants Formica rufa.
		Ants are also carrion scavengers, meaning that they will feed on the corpses of creatures that have been discarded by other animals.
	www.antnest.co.uk /diet.html (635 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - A Year in the Life of Ants
		As well as eavesdropping on life within the wood ant nests, we also follow the changing sondscape of the forest as a rich and evocative soundtrack based on location recordings made throughout the year by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, provides a backdrop to the life of the ants.
		Its early spring, and as the air temperature rises, activityat the base of a mature pine is stimulated the wood ants are emerging from hibernation.
		Of greater threat though to the ant nest are the grappling harvesters; these move through the forest felling trees which may fall on the nest.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/science/lifeofants.shtml (921 words)

	Dr. Staffan Lindgren - Professor - Ants of Central Interior British Columbia
		Carpenter ants are serious structural pests in some areas (Hansen and Klotz 2005) However, ants are central to ecosystem function, and in many ecosystems they are keystone species, i.e., their removal from the ecosystem would significantly alter its function, with many other organisms would be impacted negatively.
		Carpenter ants are among the dominant ants in sub-boreal forests, where they are perhaps the most important organisms in physically breaking down wood.
		These ants are also frequently found in association with larger ants of many species, usually near the surface of the wood.
	web.unbc.ca /~lindgren/ants_main.html (1955 words)

	ANTS SOLVE THE UNSOLVEABLE - (Lessons From The Future vol 2)
		Ants use many different routes to get to the food source, and back to the food storage bins at the colony.
		They all don't panic, because each ant is a selfcontained unit, operating on its own genetic program and capable of performing many different functions on its own.
		A British Telecom company willing to go to the extreme of having ants help them with their problems, also isn't above going outside of Britain (however, it is the first time to a university) to get help on potential future problems.
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	List of the common names of British ant species - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For alien ants species introduced to or recorded in the British Isles, see List non-endemic ant species introduced to the British Isles.
		Also see ants, British ants and Horace Donisthorpe.
		Also see List of ant genera (alphabetical) for alphabetical listings of worldwide ant genera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_the_common_names_of_British_ant_species (118 words)

	The Social Ants -- Monday, Aug. 23, 1954 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		Some insist that the ant is brainier and better organized than man; others regard the ant as a slothful, inconsistent dimwit which gets along solely on a few inherited habits.
		In a new book, Ways of the Ant (Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), he declares that ants, banded together in communities, have evolved emotions, "discipline and intelligence of a high order," even though the individual ant may be a nincompoop compared to a go-it-alone housefly.
		In their insatiable craving, the ants feed their own offspring and eggs to the caterpillars: nevertheless, when the caterpillars mature into butterflies, the ants peaceably let them escape to the outside world.
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	Buy Ants .info - livestock - ants, ant queens, ant colonies for sale in the UK, buy ants in britain, buy ant queens, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		We specialise in British species, but shall be offering a selection of living ant colonies and queens sourced from around the world over the coming months.
		If you are looking for living colonies, living workers or living or dead specimens of any other British ant species, please contact us.
		British Ants, their life history and classification, by H. St. J. Donisthorpe, first edition, 1915
	www.buyants.co.uk (425 words)

	The Ant Farm's Reading Room
		British Ants: Compared to much of the rest of Europe, the UK is not a 'hot spot' for ants...
		Ant Farm Simulator: Emulate ants ability to coordinate into the task of food-gathering, by mean of short-span individual reactions to environment events.
		Ant Bully: An upcoming movie (8/4/2006) about a boy who was shrunk down to an ant size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins after flooding the colony.
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	British Columbia ants
		The biology of ants has attracted a great deal of attention in the tropics where ants are the single greatest contributors (just less than 20%) toward total animal biomass.
		This webpage, under construction, hopes to provide some information relating to ant research in northern forests and, with time, provide a key to the identification of many ant species.
		Ants of the Central Interior of British Columbia: Dr. Staffan Lindgren, UNBC
	www.cariboo.bc.ca /schs/biol/FacPgs/rhiggins/index.html (339 words)

	British ants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Also see List of the common names of British ant species for common names applied to species native to Britain.
		See also List of established non-endemic ant species of the British Isles and List non-endemic ant species introduced to the British Isles for introduced species recorded in Britain.
		See List of localities in Britain where rare ant species had previously been recorded but are no longer considered to be present for a conspectus on the decline of some British ant species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_ants (542 words)

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