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	Formica rufa group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Formica rufa group is a sub-generic group within the genus Formica, first proposed by Wheeler.
		The British members of the Formica rufa group are as follows:
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wood_ant (102 words)

	Formica rufa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Formica rufa, also known as the southern wood ant or horse ant, is a boreal member of the Formica rufa group of ants, commonly found throughout southern England in both coniferous and broad leaf broken woodland and parkland.
		rufa is highly polygynous and often re-adopts post-nuptial queens from its own mother colony, leading to old, multi gallery nests which may contain well over a hundred egg-producing females.
		Formica rufa is aggressively territorial, and will often attack and remove other ant species from the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Formica_rufa (299 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Formica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Formica is a genus of ants generally referred to as the wood ants.
		Species of the Forelian formica group whose type is F. rufa are generally referred to as the wood ants.
		Formica rufa L. Formica rufibarbis F. Formica sanguinea Latr.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Formica (5193 words)

	Painting Formica -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		''Formica rufibarbis'' is a European formicine ant of the Formica fusca group.
		Invented in 1912 by Daniel J O'Conor and Herbert A. Faber, Formica is a laminate of paper or fabric, manufactured by impregnating the fabric with an adhesive resin at high pressure.
		''Formica rufa'' is a boreal member of the Formica rufa group of ants, commonly found throughout southern England in both conferous and broadleaf broken woodland and parkland.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/113/painting-formica.html (870 words)

	References and abstracts
		Formica rufa L. ranges from sea level to 200 m asl and is confined to warm sites with thermally favourable substrate open to direct insolation on south facing slopes.
		Formica rufa, widespread in the primary iron producing region of S.E. England, is concentrated further north in the secondary iron producing areas of the Forest of Dean, Wyre, N.W. Wales and the Furness district of Cumbria and North Lancashire.
		Formica rufa are probably tolerant of dry conditions sometimes experienced in temperate environments, photoperiod being important in the control of water balance.
	www.callnetuk.com /home/ants/antsref.html (6550 words)

	rufa species group - Genus Formica (Formicinae)
		The rufa group is difficult to distinguish from the mircogyna group.
		The rufa group is also similar to some member of the fusca group sharing the angular shape of the propodeum.
		Member of the rufa group have a reddish head whereas the fusca group has at least the posterior portion of the head (sometimes the entire head) dark.
	www.cs.unc.edu /~hedlund/dev/ants/notes/Formicinae/Formicini/rufa.html (377 words)

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		Formica criniventris females have similar hairs, but the workers of this latter species lack the dense, erect hairs on the gaster and are thus easily separated.
		Wheeler, 1909, 1910a; Gregg, 1963; Wheeler and Wheeler, 1963$ Formica coloradensis XE "Formica coloradensis" Creighton (rufa group) Fig.
		Gregg, 1963$ Formica oreas oreas XE "Formica oreas oreas" Wheeler (rufa group) Figs.
	www.utep.edu /leb/ants/Formicarufagroup.doc (6014 words)

	Wikipedia: Formica
		Species of the Forelian formica group, whose type is the Red or Southern Wood Ant Formica rufa, are generally referred to as the wood ants.
		There are many species of Formica (ITIS records nearly 200).
		Some species, including Formica rufa, which is common in Southern England, make large visible nests of dry plant stems, leaves, or pine needles, usually based around a rooting stump.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/f/fo/formica.html (213 words)

	PubKlim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The significance of microsite for the distribution of mound-building ants of the Formica rufa-group: A study of 260 nests on an area of 1640 ha near Freiburg at 300-700 m alt., by species, aspect, altitude, stand type etc. Western aspects and lower slopes appeared to be preferred.
		Changes in a naturally occurring population of mound-building wood ants of the Formica rufa group (Hym., Formicidae) over three years: Compares the results of a complete survey in 1966 in a W. German forest with those of another in 1969.
		Both groups occupy niches of all trees investigated, with a higher proportion of trunk-inhabiting species on conifers, and of leaf-eating species on broadleaves.
	www.fzi.uni-freiburg.de /PUBKLIM.HTM (7956 words)

	TAXONOMY AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF WOOD ANTS OF THE FORMICA RUFA-GROUP
		rufa group are important key species in forest ecosystems having potential to modify arthropod community by predation and resource competition.
		The species group form colonies, which differ in size and colony structure, thus having differences in their ecological significance.
		These features make wood ants as a suitable group for studies concerning social structure, competition, forest ecology etc. Species identification, however, has been difficult and partly controversial, and thus, studies using wood ants may have been neglected to some extent.
	users.utu.fi /jousor/taxoproject.htm (605 words)

	Formica Definition / Formica Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Formica is a genusIn biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or further related and morphologically similar species.
		Formica is a former US Navy Nuclear Power Officer and a graduate of the.
		Formica is a brand name of plastic laminate, and is the only brand we sell.
	www.elresearch.com /Formica (239 words)

	Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii
		The results are presented against the background of diagnostic-taxonomic problems posed by ants of the F. rufa group.
		In three cases, Formica rufa L., when protecting its own territory, forced out (one case) or held (two cases) a raiding column of F.
		rufa within their territories were outweighed by the benefits obtained by F. rufałs protection against periodic raids of F.
	www.miiz.waw.pl /index2.php?lk=staff/w_czechowski&jk=pl (1080 words)

	DEE UNIL - Christian Bernasconi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A recent phylogeny based on mitochondrial DNA showed that the group could be divided into three subgroups, which are clearly separated from each other but where the relationships within a group can be unclear.
		iii) to clarify the taxonomy of the Formica rufa group.
		Our work would be of greatest interest for elucidating the postglacial colonization patterns of Formica rufa group species and for revealing interesting aspects of wood ants biology such as hybridization events and mixed colonies formation.
	www.unil.ch /dee/page8513.html (527 words)

	Formica
		Formica Corporation is a global company with close to a century of experience designing and manufacturing all types of surfacing materials.
		Formica ants are ubiquitous in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.
		Ants of the Formica rufa group are large, aggressive, ecologically dominant ants in the...
	6f0c.buonofferta.com /formica (547 words)

	formica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At one point, Jennings said, Ambrose asked that Formica be used on cabinets at a cost of $738,000.
		YONKERS — A 63-year-old city man was killed when a pile of Formica sheets fell on him in a shed behind his home, police said.
		In March 2003, Lewis and her husband, Andel, 34, contracted Jeffrey Formica, owner of North Jersey Home Pros in Montclair, to renovate their kitchen, build a...
	www.33beat.com /formica.html (451 words)

	Bethany Formica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Species ofthe Forelianformica group, whose type is the Red or Southern Wood Ant Formica rufa, aregenerally referred to as the wood ants.
		Many of the better known species have common names that usually include the words"wood ant", although F.rufa is also known as the "horse ant".
		Some species, including Formica rufa, which iscommon in Southern England, make large visible nests of dry plantstems, leaves, or pine needles, usually based around a rooting stump.
	www.daikaiju.com /edge/27071-bethanyformica.html (340 words)

	ESA 2005
		Metal concentrations in ant (Formica rufa group) mounds differ from those in the forest floor in eastern Finland.
		In order to find out whether metal concentrations in ant mounds (Formica rufa group) differ from those in the surrounding soil, and change during forest succession, we studied metal concentrations in the inner and outer parts of ant mounds and their surrounding forest floor in different forest age classes.
		A total of 32 ant mounds and their surrounding forest floor were sampled in 5-, 30-, 60- and 100-year-old Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) dominated stands in background areas in eastern Finland.
	abstracts.co.allenpress.com /pweb/esa2005/document?ID=48066 (352 words)

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		Formica rufa L. applied to all red wood-ants for some 150 years after Linné: the various species are so much alike that at first they were not distinguished.
		Over time, Yarrow and others unpicked the tangle that is the 'Formica rufa group'.
		Thus, when we read about red wood-ants it is worth our while to find out if they are the species we think they are.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /zoologymuseum/rules/nomencl1.html (90 words)

	Wood ants in the UK.
		Wood ants of the Formica rufa group are among the UK's largest.
		These are Formica rufa, F. lugubris, F. aquilonia and F.
		Seven other formica species exist in Britain with the most closely related of these, in terms of appearance and habit, being the rare F.
	www.callnetuk.com /home/ants (134 words)

	Anita C. Risch
		Red wood ants (Formica rufa-group) are found in many conifer and mixed conifer-hardwoods forests of Europe.
		While a lot of research concerning red wood ant biology, behavior, and geographical distribution has been conducted in the past, very little information is available regarding their impact on soil processes and soil pool sizes.
		Additionally, we are interested in the distribution of these ants in North America and how imported European red wood ants survive on the North American continent.
	www.wsl.ch /land/genetics/herbivores/ants.ehtml (183 words)

	FILE: <BC-34
		Adlung, K. A critical evaluation of the European research on the use of red wood ants (Formica rufa- group) for the protection of forests against harmful insects.
		Koehler, W. The effect of the red wood ant (Formica rufa L.) on the population dynamics of Acantholyda nemoralis Thoms.
		Ortisi, A. Populations of ants of the Formica rufa-group of the Province of Bergamo as a source for ant colonizations in Italy.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/biotact/bc-34.ref.htm (5991 words)

	formica information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Species of the Forelian formica group, whose type is the Red or Southern WoodAnt Formica rufa, are generally referred to as the wood ants.
		As their name implies, they tend tolive in wooded areas where there exists no shortage of material with which they can thatch their mounds.
		However, sunlight ismost important to F.rufa group Formica species, and colonies rarely survive for any considerable period indeeply shaded, dense woodland.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /formica.html (236 words)

	Formica Paint -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Formica ravida Also see: Formica fusca group, Formica exsecta group, Formica sanguinea group, Formica microgyna group Category:Ants
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	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/59/formica-paint.html (870 words)

	Curriculum Vitae
		The ladybird Coccinella magnifica lives in the vicinity of Formica rufa group ants.
		Sloggett, J.J. Wood, R.A. and Majerus, M.E.N. Adaptations of Coccinella magnifica Redtenbacher, a myrmecophilous coccinellid, to aggression by wood ants (Formica rufa group).
		Sloggett, J.J. and Majerus, M.E.N. Aphid-mediated coexistence of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and the wood ant Formica rufa: seasonal effects, interspecific variability and the evolution of a coccinellid myrmecophile.
	www.uni-bayreuth.de /grako678/media/CVJohnSloggett.htm (519 words)

	Biologia, Vol. 53, No. 5 (October, 1998)
		Chironomidae and Oligochaeta were the dominant groups in both investigation periods, but marked differences were found regarding the number of species, species diversity and their trophic status.
		Chironomidae with 50 taxa are considered the most diverse taxonomic group of the zoobenthos.
		In this study, the possibility that red wood ant Formica rufa foragers use glandular secretions as guides for route fidelity was investigated.
	www.zoo.sav.sk /b53-5.htm (1950 words)

	Formica rufa group
		Ants of the Formica rufa group are large, aggressive, ecologically dominant ants in the northern hemisphere.
		Some European species are among the few ants with legal protection because of their importance in the control of forest insect pests.
		Many rufa group species construct large thatch mounds (such as this one) and most are probably temporary social parasites of Formica fusca group ants during nest founding.
	www.myrmecos.net /formicinae/rufa.html (84 words)

	Riserva Naturale Monte Alpe - Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		observation of ant-hills of the Formica rufa group and their role in the ecological balance of the woodland;
		Guided visits are dedicated to organized groups or schools and they will last one day or half a day.
		The reserve is accessible only on foot, and it is necessary to wear hiking clothes (mountain boots and rainproof cloak).
	www.parks.it /riserva.monte.alpe/Eser.html (196 words)

	Formicinae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Formica rufa group - New images were added.
		Formica microgyna group - New images were added.
		Camponotus file has been updated with additional species and figures, and now includes nearly all of the species, including a large number of new species.
	www.utep.edu /leb/ants/Formicinae.htm (59 words)

	Workshop on the Role of Red Wood Ants in Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems
		The role of wood ant Formica polyctena in the cycling of phosphorus in spruce plantations
		Red wood ants (Formica rufa group): their contribution to soil C and N pools and CO2 emissions in unmanaged forests
		Carbon and nutrient pools associated with wood ant (Formica rufa group) mounds in managed forests of North Karelia
	www.metla.fi /tapahtumat/2004/ants/programme.htm (177 words)

	European Journal of Entomology
		SLOGGETT J.J. The ladybird Coccinella magnifica is typically considered to be myrmecophilous, and primarily associated with the Formica rufa group of wood ants.
		It is regularly associated with ants of the F.
		Coccinella magnifica, myrmecophily, Formica rufa group, habitat preference, aphidophagy, geographic variation, Coccinella septempunctata
	www.eje.cz /scripts/viewabstract.php?abstract=58&browsevol=99(4) (174 words)

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