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		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.
		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).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/ant.html (1589 words)

	Ant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ant colonies are eusocial, and are very much like those found in other such Hymenoptera ns, though the various groups of these probably developed sociality independently through convergent evolution.
		Ant communication is primarily through chemicals called pheromone s, which, because most ants spend their time in direct contact with the ground, are more developed than in other Hymenopterans.
		Myrmecophilous or ant-loving caterpillar s (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.
	www.purpleuniverse.com /true_associate-Ant.html (1569 words)

	California Academy of Sciences - Natural History Museum - Ants: Hidden Worlds Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Honeypot ants display yet another specialized behavior — some individuals are designated as living refrigerators that are responsible for storing excess food in their stomachs.
		Disturbed Carpenter ant workers are known to rock furiously back and forth so their mandibles in front and their hindmost body part pound against the nest in rapid bursts — up to 7 strikes within 50 millisecond intervals.
		The term "honeypot ant" actually describes a strategy evolved separately by a number of unrelated species in which one caste has the unique ability to store nutritious fluid for an extended period in distended abdomens —; an adaptation to the constraints of the dry season.
	www.calacademy.org /naturalhistory/ants.html (3083 words)

	Honey Ant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Honey pot ants store honey dew in their distended crops for use when it is not available in their habitat.
		Honey pot ants also provided food for Aboriginals - the honey dew was squeezed from their crops and was eaten.
		Honey Ants have a few enemies such as lizards and lack of appropriate environment but their greatest enemies are humans.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /elanorah/inhoney.htm (94 words)

	Ant at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The most primitive ants are the army ants and driver ants, from South America and Africa respectively.
		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.
		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).
	wiki.tatet.com /Ant.html (1582 words)

	Ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The male ants, called drones, along with the breeding females are born with wings, and do nothing throughout their life except eat.
		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.
		Ants have often been used in fables and childrens stories to represent industriousness and cooperative effort, as well as aggressiveness and vindictiveness.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Ants (1471 words)

	Ant Species
		The male ants dont live long The male ants only have two things to do in life.That is to eat food and fertilize the queens.
		The are a type of red ant and have sharp mandibles(teeth) and a sting that some people are allergic to.
		When another ant is hungry, it taps a honeypot ant on the head.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/redant/allant.html (348 words)

	USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): Picnic pests or ecological marvels? Ants—who have roamed the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Honeypot ants possess yet another specialized behavior--some individuals are designated as living refrigerants that are responsible for storing excess food in their stomachs.
		The term "honeypot ant" actually describes a strategy evolved separately by a number of unrelated species in which one caste has the unique ability to store nutritious fluid for an extended period in distended abdomens--an adaptation to the constraints of the dry season.
		The winged ants engage in late summer mating flights that are triggered by rain, which serves to synchronize the flight of individuals across many colonies.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2710_133/ai_n6114807 (1489 words)

	Additional information
		Workers of the honeypot ant (Melophorus bagoti Lubbock and Campanoyus spp.) gather honeydew from scale insects and psyllids, and feed it to other workers, which become mere nectar storage vessel with greatly enlarged abdomens.
		The ants were obtained by scraping the surface of the ground to find the vertical shaft of the nest that led down to horizontal chambers where the honeypot ants were located.
		Limonite oxide from ants' nests was used for a yellow pigment in paintings; beeswax was shaped into ritual objects and human figures for sorcery and love magic; and insects themselves were depicted in cave paintings.
	www.geocities.com /local_insects/sose_bit.html (1246 words)

	Apologetics Press - Antsy Ant Antics
		When food becomes scarce, the ants in the colony go the honeypots and stroke them with their antennae, which causes them to regurgitate the honeydew so that the queen, workers, and males can eat it in order to stay alive and carry out their functions within the nest.
		The ants protect the plant by attacking anything that might be hazardous to the plants—from small insects to large herbivores that attempt to eat the plant.
		The jaws of other species of ant soldiers are so adapted for fighting that the ants are unable to pass food to their own mouths, depending instead on the services of smaller laboring ants for nourishment.
	www.apologeticspress.org /articles/2627 (1923 words)

	Canyonlands, America's Wild West: Canyonlands Creatures
		Worker honeypot ants return to their nests swollen with nectar and honeydew, which they regurgitate to feed larvae and other ants.
		The ants' ability to store liquid allowed the species to adapt to the warm, dry climate of Canyonlands, where water is not always available.
		The average honeypot ant colony is relatively small, composed of only several hundred ants.
	www.pbs.org /edens/canyonlands/canyonlands.htm (1137 words)

	Bug Walk March/April 2001 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
		On a thistle, a native Prenolepis imparis, or false honeypot ant, scurries around a tiny speck, stroking it with a leg, caressing it with an antenna.
		The southbound lane is slower, the ants' abdomens swollen with tree sap.
		Ants are female, moths have hairy wings but butterflies don't, only insects have six legs, dragonflies' eyes wrap around their heads, there are more beetles than any other animal, spiders are mean!
	www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200103/bug3.asp (1264 words)

	GP4K - Animals, Animals! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Honeypot ants live in the deserts of North America.
		These ants are called repletes, or honey pots, which means they have a full food supply.
		When there is enough food on hand, the ants overfeed some of the workers with lots of plant nectar and honeydew.
	www.gp4k.com /animals/Article.asp?ID=624 (276 words)

	Time for Kids \| Magazines
		Tropical leafcutter ants use their sharp outer jaws to cut leaves and chew them to a pulp at their nest.
		Ants obtain it by sucking up leftover juice that aphids have got from plants they eat.
		When an ant is hungry, it taps its antennas on the honeypot ant.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,234459,00.html (196 words)

	joshf_ants_report.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ants first came along when some of the wasps do not fly out of the nest.
		The army ant is almost the biggest but they are the strongest and meanest.
		Ants may be small but they are powerful in a group.
	www.bucklake.leon.k12.fl.us /Hoffman/GSH/joshf_ants_report.html (192 words)

	More Ant-Related Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		Ants In The Jamm: These FAB FOUR are tinny and tuneless, played for the queen and are available as a group or as soloists.
		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 (2555 words)

	ant
		Carpenter ants vary in size and color but are usually large (1/4-1/2 inch) and flish.
		Ant is the name of a river in Norfolk, England.
		One of the main differences between Ant and Make is that Ant is controlled using XML files, where Make has its own Makefile format.
	www.fact-library.com /ant.html (1535 words)

	Biology, Husbandry and Display of the diurnal honey ant Myrmecocystus mendax
		Ants in this taxon are characterized by their ability to spray concentrated formic acid via a terminal acidopore (Hölldobler and Wilson 1990).
		2), the subsurface labyrinth is used by the ants mainly to incubate pupae, being warmed from behind with a heating pad (Fig.
		Snelling, R.R. (1976): A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
	www.sasionline.org /antsfiles/pages/mendax/mendax.html (5372 words)

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		Ants, for example, engage in agriculture, using at least three different types of plants in several different ways besides just for food.
		Ants make a liquor from a fluid they get by stroking aphids or kidnaped Honeypot ants.
		Dragonflies, in the type known as the "ant lion," as larvae, dig elaborate pit traps with which to capture their prey, usually ants, as we've seen.
	home.att.net /~m.standridge/finsect.htm (2024 words)

	Bug Walk March/April 2001 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
		Ants in particular are an ecosystem's movers and shakers, bulldozing even more soil than earthworms and performing the valuable service of deconstructing dead insects, birds, and mammals.
		Nature's most voracious predators are wolf spiders and army ants, not polar bears." Army ants, for example, function as a "superpredator"-staging group raids to kill and dismember small mammals, lizards, and even baby birds many times their own size.
		"This ant's from Argentina," says Nate, relieving her of the burden and spinning a tale of ant stowaways disembarking in New Orleans from a sugar or coffee ship in the 1890s.
	www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200103/bug_printable.asp (2767 words)

	International Congress of Entomology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Chosen as the logo for the 22nd ICE, the honey-pot ant occurs in the dry areas of central Australia.
		"The honeypot ants of Central Australia are regarded as a great luxury [as native food] and belong chiefly to the genera, Camponotus and Melophorus.
		When the contents of the crop have been regurgitated to other workers the form of the replete is said to return to normal and to be indistinguishable from that of other workers.
	www.ccm.com.au /icoe/congress.html (341 words)

	Honeypot Ant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Honeypot ants were a highly valued source of sugar for the Aborigines of central Australia.
		Honeypot ant workers gather honeydew from scale insects and psyllids (jumping plant lice) and feed it to other workers called 'repletes' whose role in the colony is to act as living food vessels.
		The repletes develop enlarged abdomens and are kept safe in deep underground galleries where they hang from the ceiling.
	bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au /Entomology/importance/imagePages/honeypotAnt.html (77 words)

	Explorit Stumper Answer
		The ant eaten by the Aborigines is the honeypot ant.
		The Aborigines would scrape the surface of the ground to find the openings of the vertical tunnels of an ant nest and would dig down to where the honeypot ants were located, perhaps as much as two meters below ground.
		Honeypot ants are also found in some parts of the U.S
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/exploreit/stumper/stump33_answ.html (223 words)

	Myrmecocystus mimicus (Honeypot Ants)
		Individuals from the same colony may vary in color, and even the same ant may appear to be colored differently under different lighting conditions.
		In this video, it is morning and the ants are just emerging from the nest entrance.
		There are typically a couple of different size classes of ants within a nest, but the larger sizes do not differ markedly from the smaller in terms of overall shape.
	www.tightloop.com /ants/myrmim.htm (394 words)

	VAST Essays: Pasquarello
		Wright uses the example of "selfless" honeypot ants, sterile workers that hang from the ceilings of their colony's underground nest, their abdomens turgid with food.
		If the liquid food that one ant carries saves the lives of four of its full siblings, two of whom are sisters (and therefore share 75% of the sacrificial ant's genes instead of the usual 50% in brothers), then the ant's behavior is ultimately genetically beneficial.
		Consider the sterile honeypot ant that sacrifices itself as a living food bin for its fertile relatives; it will actually be able to pass on its invaluable genetic legacy through its altruistic act.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~vast/Pasquarello.html (2230 words)

	ants -- ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Retired Robots The Ants: A Community of Microrobots The Ants are a community of cubic-inch microrobots at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
		True ants are to be distinguished from the so-called white ants, or termites, constituting the...
		Ants (Formicidae) You might be surprised that ants belong to this group of flying insects.
	www.fiveants.com (3559 words)

	Best honeypot ant information sites around (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	Myrmecocystus mexicanus (Honeypot Ants)
		mexicanus is one of the classic Honeypot Ants, with some nests containing individuals who are specialized as living storage containers of liquid food for the other ants.
		mexicanus is primarily a nocturnal ant, so they are primarily active after dark.
		The nest entrance is usually much, much bigger than the ants.
	www.tightloop.com /ants/myrmex.htm (167 words)

	John Lighton's Publications
		Curvilinear allometry, energetics and foraging ecology: a comparison of leaf-cutting ants and army ants.
		Running in a desert ant: A comparison of energetics and ventilation during voluntary and forced locomotion.
		The energetics of locomotion and load carriage in the desert harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex rugosus.
	www.sablesys.com /john-lighton-lab/comppubs.html (1010 words)

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