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  Driver Ants - info and games
Male driver ants, sometimes known as "sausage flies" (a term also applied to males of New World Army ants) due to their bloated, sausage-like abdomens, are the largest known ant "morphs" in existence, and were originally believed to be members of a different species.
When a colony of driver ants encounters a male, they tear its wings off and carry it back to the nest to be mated with the queen.
Driver ants are the only insect known to have actually killed and consumed human beings, albeit only those that, for other reasons, were unable to escape (e.g., babies, the infirmed).
www.sheppardsoftware.com /content/animals/animals/breeds/ant_driverant.htm   (409 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Driver ant
Driver ants is the term commonly applied to ants of the subfamily Dorylinae.
Soldier ants have very large strong pincers, which have been used as stitches in African cultures by holding a cut closed, then pushing a siafu onto the cut, once it has grabbed both sides of the cut and is holding them, the head of the ant is cut off leaving the body to fall away.
Ants of the genus Atta of the southeastern U.S. and tropical America cultivate inside their nests a species of fungus that is used as food by the colony.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Driver-ant   (673 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The army ant genus Dorylus, also known as driver ants or safari ants or siafu, are found primarily in central and east Africa, though the range extends to tropical Asia.
Columns are arranged with the smaller ants being flanked by the larger soldier ants.
Male driver ants, sometimes known as "sausage flies" (a term also applied to males of New World ecitonines) due to their bloated, sausage-like abdomens, are the largest known ant "morphs" in existence, and were originally believed to be members of a different species.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=driver_ant   (701 words)

  
 Sausage fly picture and other ant pictures as Stock Photography and Royalty Free Stock Photos at A-Z Fotos.
These big hords of driver ants are moving through the forest and eat what they can find under their way.
Pictures of driver ants can be used to tell some good stories of natural history and driver ants are some of the most famous tropical insects in forests.
Ant pictures, sausage fly pictures, driver ants, social insect.
www.azfotos.com /animals/insects/ants/ant-pictures/sausage-fly-driver-ants.htm   (797 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
The nest of the doryline ants is an open mass formed by the clustered bodies of up to a few million workers hanging from the underside of a raised log or other surface and enclosing the queen and brood..
The activities of ant communities are characterized by a certain degree of division of labor, which in some cases involves a permanent functional differentiation among members of the colony.
Typically a “finder” ant arouses the colony, and excited nestmates may be influenced in their direction of progress from the nest by one means or another, according to species.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/animals/ant.html   (1737 words)

  
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The ant head is composed of three major parts, the eyes, the antennae, and the mouth parts, all of which are contained in or attached to the cranium.
The number of ommatidia that an ant may possess in a single lateral eye can be as great as 1,200 in the male of Formica pratensis, to 1 in the eye of workers of Ponera punctatissima, to zero in the worker of the African driver ant.
The mouth is composed of the labrum, the mandibles, the maxillae, the labium, and the hypopharynx.
jlibsch.web.wesleyan.edu /Ant/Morphology/Head.html   (785 words)

  
 Foogle Business - Ants - What is an Ant - The Genus Polyergus - Hymenoptera Formicidae - Formicinae - The Mighty Ant - ...
Army ants, of the subfamily Dorylinae, are nomadic and notorious for the destruction of plant and animal life in their path.
An ant weighs on average only one gram, but she can lift 20 times his own weight, it is like a man lifting a grand-piano with his mouth.
The worker ants have evolved to be so organized that they keep the eggs and larvae in different groups, in different chambers, according to their age.
www.thesahara.net /ants.htm   (3887 words)

  
 A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver
When I was a kid, they used a few of the old warbirds to spread fire ant poison across the South.
Radioed by Ambulance Driver at 7:28 PM 7 pithy observation(s).
Radioed by Ambulance Driver at 6:33 PM 22 pithy observation(s).
ambulancedriverfiles.blogspot.com   (1190 words)

  
 SQL Task
Some JDBC drivers (including the Oracle thin driver), use the JVM's proxy settings to route their JDBC operations to the database.
Since Ant1.7, Ant running on Java1.5 or later defaults to using the proxy settings of the operating system.
Ant Properties in the nested text will not be expanded.
ant.apache.org /manual/CoreTasks/sql.html   (822 words)

  
 Worker ants that never work?
However, the ants of one species allow ants of other species to do all of their work for them even though they are worker ants.
Ants of the Polyergus samurai species pulling out larvae and pupae of the Formica japonica species from the entrance of the nest they have raided.
This ant species is the army or legionary ant living in South America, which is commonly called the driver ant in Africa.
ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp /BE/Kingdom/4445/4445e.html   (416 words)

  
 GAKKEN'S PHOTO ENCYCLOPEDIA "ANTS" : Ant species (1)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Thereafter, study on the classification of ants is advanced and so far, the academic names of 200 species of Japanese ants have been identified (http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/Index/Species.html).
The largest ant in Japan is the female of the Camponotus obscuripes species with a length of 18 mm.
The largest ant in the world is the female of driver ants (Dorylus), which lives in Africa.
ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp /INTRODUCTION/Gakken79E/Page_34.html   (191 words)

  
 “Go to the Ant!”
Ants live in colonies, which are highly organized, structured societies, ranging from just a few to millions.
These ants are all daughters to the queen and are unable to mate, as the queen is the only female able to do so.
That means that all ants in a given colony are children of the queen.
www.thercg.org /youth/odds/0302-gtta.html   (551 words)

  
 Derby database development with Apache Ant
Apache Ant is one of those rare tools that every developer must absolutely have in their development toolkit.
The While the SQL Ant Task is fully capable of launching the Derby embedded database and executing SQL statements against it, it is not capable of handling the appropriate Derby shutdown tasks that are required to use Derby properly.
The online Ant documentation provides (http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/sql.html) a significant amount of detail on the use of this task so not much time will be spent on it here other than to point out a few details specific to working with Derby.
www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0412snell/?ca=dgr-lnxw06DerbyAnt   (2085 words)

  
 Newsletter
The ants may travel over 350m from the bivouac in a raid, though it depends on the type of terrain and the condition of the colony.
Driver ants have been known to kill and dismember chickens, goats and even pigs if the animals have been injured or unable to escape the marauding ants!
The ants form only temporary nests and after raiding the whole colony emigrates to a new nest site unless it is in a ‘statary’ condition (the larvae in the colony are entering a pupal stage by spinning their cocoons and the enormous queen is laying eggs).
courses.ttu.edu /thomas/classPet/1998/antfarm/ant_raiders.html   (729 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Driver,   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The clothing and equipment a racecar driver wears is less about fashion and more about keeping the driver whole and healthy.
Policeman pretended foreign driver was at wheel of his speeding vehicle
Driver's Education Online DMV required coursework for FL new drivers and learner's permit.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Driver,   (726 words)

  
 USA Modifieds
Drivers are responsible for the conduct and actions of all crewmembers, and any unsportsmanlike conduct shall be grounds for disqualification or punitive action as determined by USA Race Director.
Drivers under 18 years of age must produce a signed and notarized parental consent form by parent or legal guardian at the time of application for membership and before competing in any USA event.
A minimum of 4 driver side door bars shall be as parallel with the ground as possible and located perpendicular to the driver so as to provide maximum protection for driver, but without causing undue difficulty in entering and exiting racecar.
www.usamodifieds.com /rules2.htm   (3267 words)

  
 More Ant-Related Pictures
Ants are Coming: In 1968, Yener's academic painting received the first prize at the "Golden Owl" competition arranged by the Society of Turkish Painters and attracted attention abroad.
The Ant Cavalry: Wood elves' cavalry is composed mostly of elves on ants.
Ant Didge: A didgeridoo with a stream of ants on a moebius strip which extends from end to end of the piece.
alpha.zimage.com /~ant/antfarm/ants/more.html   (2454 words)

  
 Driver Profile :: Anthony Davidson Profile :: Formula One news, fun, results and features from Planet-F1.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ant began his career in kart racing in 1987 and raced in various British, European and North American championships.
Ant frequently impressed with his pace and Williams expressed an interest in signing him as a 2005 race-driver.
Ant therefore returned to his test driver duties in 2005, although as BAR had finished the previous season in the top four he was not permitted to drive during grand prix Fridays.
www.planet-f1.com /News/Story_Page/0,15909,3210_10640_1816810,00.html   (472 words)

  
 AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Rainforest
Feared by pythons and people alike, the driver ant is one of the African rainforest's most aggressive life forms.
During the rainy season, armies of driver ants move in columns of up to 20 million across rainforest floors at the rate of 65 feet an hour in search of prey: millipedes, spiders, beetles, but also anything that gets in their way, including reptiles and small mammals.
A driver ant's jaws are so strong that some forest inhabitants use them to close wounds.
www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/rainforest/rainforest_animals_lo.html   (726 words)

  
 AntOddities - Ant Wiki
For Unix people, Ant's behavior isn't counterintuitive at all, as the dot in the first includes pattern is a literal dot and nothing else.
However, Ant expansions of property instantiations are not recursive.
Ant was written, first and foremost, to build open source projects.
wiki.apache.org /ant/AntOddities   (1945 words)

  
 Section 410 Regulation
An intermediate driver's license may be issued after an applicant has successfully complied with the conditions of the Stage I learner's permit for not less than three months and passed a driving skills test.
A driver's license may be issued after an applicant has successfully complied with the conditions of the Stage I learner's permit and the Stage II intermediate driver's license for a combined period of not less than one year.
The State's percentage of BAC testing among drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes is equal to or greater than the national average, as determined by the most recently available final FARS data as of August 1 of the fiscal year for which grant funds are being sought.
www.nhtsa.dot.gov /nhtsa/whatsup/TEA21/GrantMan/HTML/24b_Sec410T21Reg_23CFR1313.html   (5165 words)

  
 Online Man Page
The hid driver is general and primarily handles the USB functionality of the device and generic HID functionality.
The hid driver is also responsible for managing the device through the default control pipe.
In addition to being a USB client driver, the hid driver is also a STREAMS driver so that modules may be pushed on top of it.
www.cs.duke.edu /csl/docs/man.php?section=7D&topic=hid   (531 words)

  
 Alien Ant Farm's Driver Dies in Bus Crash...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A Welsh tour bus driver has been killed and the singer with rock band Alien Ant Farm has been detained in hospital after a crash in Spain.
Six crew members were also injured when their tour bus collided with a truck 120 miles west of Madrid in the early hours of the morning, record label DreamWorks said in a statement.
Most of the band and crew were asleep in their bunks at the time of the accident.
www.rocktour.net /htm/aaf_driver.htm   (322 words)

  
 PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
Welcome to the home of the PostgreSQL JDBC driver.
It is a pure Java (Type IV) implementation, so all you need to do is download a jar file and you're on your way.
The driver provides are reasonably complete implementation of the JDBC 3 specification in addition to some PostgreSQL specific extensions.
jdbc.postgresql.org   (117 words)

  
 driver ant definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
driver ant definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
Search for "driver ant" in all of MSN Encarta
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encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861689426/driver_ant.html   (46 words)

  
 JDBC driver setup
JDBC drivers have to be installed for you to compile Java code when mapping database data.
JDBC drivers are used by MapForce generated Java applications to connect to, and exchange data with several different databases.
These JDBC drivers need to be installed first, to successfully run the generated Java application(s).
www.altova.com /manual2007/mapforce/mapforce-enterprise/mffjdbcdriversetup.htm   (259 words)

  
 The Ants of Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The well-known Driver Ants, living and moving in vast colonies - between 2,000,000 and 22,000,000 for Dorylus wilverthi (Raignier and van Boven, 1955).
The treatise by Schneirla (1971) compared findings for the Neotropical Army ants, mostly genus Eciton, and the African Driver Ants but nearly all the information on the latter was derived from the work of Raignier and van Boven (1955).
The first description of an Anomma species was of a male specimen in 1802 (Dorylus nigricans Illiger) long before the Driver Ant workers (Anomma burmeisteri Shuckard, 1840c) and remaining unassociated with the Driver Ant workers for another decade (Anomma rubella, Savage, 1850).
antbase.org /ants/africa/clog7b.htm   (587 words)

  
 Project management: Maven makes it easy
Even though Ant acts as the de facto standard for building Java programs, in many ways the tool falls short for project management tasks.
Now that you have a feel for the differences between Maven and Ant, let's examine Maven's major components, which are shown in Figure 1.
In "Extending Ant to support interactive builds" (developerWorks, November 2001), Anthony Young-Garner shows you how to incorporate interactive support in your builds to provide a smoother and more flexible experience for your end users.
www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/java/library/j-maven   (3090 words)

  
 Highest Lifetime Fecundity
All Eucharitidae are internal or external parasitoids of immature stages of ants.
Army ants and driver ants appear to have the highest fecundities among ants, though the longevity of the queens is not known.
Schneirla, T.C. A comparison of species and genera in the ant subfamily Dorylinae with respect to functional pattern.
ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu /Chap18.htm   (1049 words)

  
 Create your own type 3 JDBC driver, Part 1 - Java World
You may write such drivers, which range from types 1 to 4, in pure Java or a combination of Java and Java Native Interface (JNI) methods.
Type 3 drivers shine when supporting Internet deployment in environments that connect to a variety of DBMS servers requiring numerous concurrently connected users where performance and scalability are major concerns.
In the JDBC driver, RMI (Remote Method Invocation) serves as the net protocol for communicating between the driver's client and server tiers.
www.javaworld.com /javaworld/jw-05-2002/jw-0517-jdbcdriver.html   (1084 words)

  
 ANT TRUCK DRIVERS HERE? - Off Topic
I'm an ant, and I have to tell you....it comes in handy in traffic jams.
Since we ants can pick up about 100 times or so our own body weight, I just sort of throw my Dak on my back and walk down the dotted line between the lanes when traffic gets bad.
ANT TRUCKS are used by ants to get thier Daks delivered to them, laugh it is suppoed to be funny
www.dodgedakotas.com /boards/ot/527.html   (549 words)

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