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| | Dracula Ant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | This behaviour is thought to represent a precursor to the social feeding behaviour typical of more derived ant species, which use their larvae to digest their food (with the larvae later regurgitating it for the adults—which are unable to digest their own food—to eat). |
| | Dracula Ants are also notable for their seemingly ancestral morphology; unlike other ants, which have two or three joints between the thorax and abdomen, Adetomyrma species have just one. |
| | The colonies, the first of which was found in a rotting log, may contain as many as 10,000 workers, winged males and several wingless queens (unusual, as most ant queens are winged). |
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