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	The Ants (Bert Hölldobler, Edward Wilson) - review
		A typical ant colony life cycle consists of the nuptial flight and mating, followed by colony foundation, growth, and movement; there are, however, many species that don't fit this pattern.
		While ants are capable of some learning — but don't play — it is often helpful to consider the ant colony as a superorganism, with its own homeostatic responses and flexibility in behaviour.
		Replete An individual ant whose crop is greatly distended with liquid food, to the extent that the abdominal segments are pulled apart and the intrasegmental membranes are stretched tight.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Ants.html (1584 words)

	Alphabet of the Ants
		Ants are the consummate predators of insects and spiders, and many are expert grazers on leaf material.
		Ants are arthropods, and along with the bees and wasps, are members of the Order Hymenoptera, a word derived from their membrane-like wings.
		Ants are unbeknownst to themselves masters of physical and organic chemistry.
	www.frontiernet.net /~jlkeefer/ants.htm (2122 words)

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		There are ants that farm, ants that weave elaborate nests for themselves, ants that can cross crevasses many times their length through amazing feats of teamwork and cooperation, and even ants that raid enemies nests for slaves to work back in their own colonies.
		An ant colony contains a variety of “castes,” or ants which differ from each other anatomically amongst a given species that are suited for carrying out a variety of tasks, from next expansion to care of the young to waging war.
		In Journey to the Ants, the player will control a colony or multiple colonies of a species of ant in a variety of dynamic, carefully recreated environments, and will strive to overcome the challenges generated by conflicts, ant style.
	www.msu.edu /~garlickn/adamsjourneytotheants.doc (1918 words)

	The Talk.Origins Archive Post of the Month: Jan. 1997
		Ants, they argued, are an example of a group put on earth by a single act of special creation.
		Brown was a fellow specialist in ant classification who had for years shared his dream of finding a Mesozoic ant and thereby, perhaps, to learn the identity of the missing link to the ancestral wasps.
		The ant is found in the fossil record as a completely functioning `ant', and has remained unchanged in the 50 million years since it first appeared in the fossil record.
	www.talkorigins.org /origins/postmonth/jan97.html (841 words)

	Corky's Pest Control, Inc. - Ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ants cannot detect Termidor ® and when they walk through it, it adheres to their bodies and is carried back to the nest, where it's control qualities take effect.
		Ants vary greatly in size, from less than 1/16th of an inch to over an inch in the various species.
		Most ants are considered either scavengers or predators, however there are types that are harvesters, gathering seeds from plants or tending aphids to obtain their sweet, sticky secretions.
	www.corkyspest.com /ants.html (710 words)

	Number of Ants in the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ants belong to a family called the Formicidae and are close relatives to the bees, wasps, and hornets.
		All ants have a basic structure and are divided into three parts: the head, the stomach, and the thorax, which lies between the head and the abdomen.
		Ants are called socials insects because they live together in colonies that can contain from a dozen ants to thousands of ants.
	hypertextbook.com /facts/2003/AlisonOngvorapong.shtml (339 words)

	Preteen Summer Activities
		Invite her to feed the ants a sugar cube, or to sprinkle wheat germ, grass seed, dead insects, breadcrumbs, or chopped meat on the soil.
		Explain to your child that the ants need water; then let her saturate a 1/2-inch square piece of sponge with water and place it on top of the soil in the jar.
		When she is done observing the ants, take another nature walk together so that she can release the ants to a safe place away from homes and people.
	www.familytlc.net /issues/july2004/summer_10_1072.html (441 words)

	The Ants of Africa
		Although the number of ant species which were both abundant and involved in Black Pod disease was found to be quite small, we encountered some 100 species foraging or nesting on cocoa trees and another 50 species in cocoa plantations or in the surrounding forest.
		Those ants which live in the soil reveal little of their nest structure but the tents built over Homopteran "cattle" by Myrmicaria striata show strong cementing of the soil particles, this is revealed also in their semi-subterranean trails from the nest in open ground to the trees.
		West African ants included in their review are Camponotus sericeus, Myrmicaria natalensis (as Myrmicaria eumenoides) and Myrmicaria striata, Odontomachus troglodytes, Oecophylla longinoda, Pachycondyla analis (as Megaponera foetens), Pachycondyla soror (as Bothroponera soror), and Pachycondyla tarsata (as Paltothyreus tarsatus).
	antbase.org /ants/africa/intro.htm (3029 words)

	Ant Gardens--Bert Holldobler & Edward O. Wilson
		Ants that are completely dependent on symbiotic plants are also among the most aggressive in the world.
		These ants happen to live not in the cavities of plants, but in ant gardens, which constitute the most complex and sophisticated of all symbioses between ants and flowering plants.
		The gardens are round masses of soil, detritus, and chewed vegetable fibers assembled in the branches of bushes and trees, ranging in size from golf balls to soccer balls, within which are grown a variety of herbaceous plants.
	www.primitivism.com /ant-gardens.htm (441 words)

	The Ants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991.
		This book is primarily aimed at academics as a reference work, detailing the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of ants.
		An account of some of their most interesting findings, popularized for the layman, can be found in their 1994 book Journey to the Ants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Ants (152 words)

	Myrmidons
		In terms of mass, all ants in the world weigh as much as all human beings, so Aeacus is vindicated for his prayer.
		Many kinds of ants are prepared to assume this kamikaze role in one way or another, but none more dramatically than workers of a species of Camponotus of the saundersi group living in the rains forests of Malaysia.
		When the ants are pressed hard during combat, either by enemy ants or by an attacking predator, they contract their abdominal muscles violently, bursting open the body wall and spraying the secretions into the foe.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/myrmidons.html (769 words)

	KiteCD - Animals - insects, Ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Each ant has 6 legs which are all attached to the thorax and a few species also have 2 pairs of wings.
		Also some ants are able to elicit a chemical signal to warn others in their colony when the colony is threatened with danger.
		Ants which drink the sweet liquid made by aphids encourage the aphids to produce it by stroking the aphids’ abdomens.
	members.aol.com /KiteCD2/an_IAnt.htm (1165 words)

	Journey Into Amazonia -- The Big Top
		The many species of leaf-cutter ants that live in Amazonia are responsible for harvesting nearly a sixth of the area's leaves.
		In the course of bearing a leaf fragment from the harvested tree to their colony, female worker ants undergo an arduous journey.
		After millions of years of evolution, leaf-cutter ants are an essential part of the Amazonian ecosystem.
	www.pbs.org /journeyintoamazonia/bigtop.html (1098 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When a rattan infested with these ants is touched, the ants make a loud rattling sound by beating their mandibles against the hollow chamber warning off intruders.
		The ants live in the smooth walled chambers and use the rough walled chambers as a dump for their left-overs, ant feces and dead ants.
		Ant Plants by Nicholas Plummer at Duke University Medical Centre: lots of info on the various plant species that develop associations with ants, including how to cultivate them.
	www.szgdocent.org /resource/ff/f-rain6c.htm (1326 words)

	A good start ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ants can be found everywhere and in a great variety.
		Ants are farmers, hunters, collectors or even slaves of other ants.
		Ants may be described as aggressive since they fight everything - even other nests of their own kind.
	members.aol.com /dinarda/ant/book.htm (209 words)

	Army Ant - Army Ants: Inside the Ranks - National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In some Arizona ants, an attack by army ants provokes a fierce nest defense and a simultaneous evacuation of the colony.
		The general reaction of wasps when ants attack their nests is to flee, but some will raise the alarm beforehand.
		Soon after the ants have passed, the area becomes a hotbed of biodiversity as opportunities for all kinds of creatures are created.
	www7.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0608/feature7/learn.html (854 words)

	Japanese Ant Database Group \| MetaFilter
		The book Journey to the Ants is also a good read: it makes you think twice about where you're walking, and what you might be walking upon.
		The ant appears troubled and confused; for the first time in its life the ant leaves the forest floor and begins to climb.
		Driven on by the growth of the fungus, the ant embarks on a long and exhaustive climb.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/55543 (429 words)

	Guide to Leaf cutter or Leaf cutting Ant
		As Nature said, they "have done for ants what Levi's did for denim." Not just a good-parts version of their magisterial, Pulitzer-winning The Ants, Journey is also a double autobiography--the history of how early enthusiasm developed into an enormously fruitful scientific collaboration.
		Leafcutter ants are one of the prime actors in this drama, as the author follows the indefatigable Hubert Herz, a plant biologist studying the effects of leafcutters on plants in the island.
		There are scenes with leafcutter ants, and one where leafcutter ants battle a colony of army ants.
	www.blueboard.com /leafcutters/books.htm (1007 words)

	Alibris: Ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An introduction to the world of ants, including how their communities are formed and the roles various types of ants play within those communities.
		Nickle's unforgettable tale about a boy who torments ants--who eventually is pulled into the ant hole when the ants decide to enact their revenge--comes to the big screen in August as an animated feature film from Warner Bros., starring the voices of Julia Roberts and Nicholas Cage.
		In the first, Ant can't sleep because he thinks monsters are hiding underneath his bed; in the second, Ant denies drawing a picture of a spider on his brother's homework.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Ants (1106 words)

	ASU SoLS Faculty: Bert Hoelldobler
		Ants, in particular, are great model systems for studying various evolutionary grades of socio-complexity, ranging from primitive eusocial organizations with not more than hundreds of individuals, to complex superorganismic constructs consisting of hundreds of thousands, and in some species even millions of individuals..
		Ants communicate mainly by means of chemical signals, which, however, often consist of multiple components, and are modulated by additional mechanical stimuli.
		Certain ant species employ ritualized tournaments during which they collectively communicate information about their size and "resource holding potential".
	sols.asu.edu /faculty/bhoelldobler.php (381 words)

	The Ants of Africa
		The attribution of the "ant mosaic" concept to Dennis Leston, at least among anglophones, may not be strictly correct.
		In Journey to the Ants, Bert Hölldobler described his fascination for the Weaver ants, Oecophylla longinoda from Africa and O.
		A further fascinating truth is that there are distinct cohorts of ant species which live within the territories of dominants; several researchers having discovered patterns of positive and negative associations with specific dominants.
	antbase.org /ants/africa/mosaics1.htm (614 words)

	Amazon.com: Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration: Books: Bert Hölldobler,Edward O. Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Journey to the Ants gives an outstanding overview of the enormous variety and fascination of myrmecology, from the primitive bulldog ants of Australia to the complexities of weaver ant societies, slave-making ants and agriculture, army ants, and the social parasites concealed within anthills.
		The book covers such topics as the dominance of ants, the life and death of the colony, the colony as a superorganism, ant communication, relations between ants within and between colonies, ancient ants, ant parasites, army ants, and ants and the environment.
		Parallels between ant and human society are many and may be described in ways that transcend qualities of the individual organisms.
	www.amazon.com /Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262 (2209 words)

	The Talk.Origins Archive Post of the Month: Jan. 1997 Response
		The soldier ant of Pheidole has jaws with two teeth, short in comparison to the head.
		Some ant jaws, such as in the Amazon ant, have no teeth but end in a single sharp point.
		There is a huge variety in jaw sizes and tooth numbers for ants.
	www.talkorigins.org /origins/postmonth/jan97-r1.html (1219 words)

	Take Our Word For It, page one - Spotlight
		Books such as The Journey to the Ants reveal complex worlds more alien and bizarre than any found in science fiction (and they're just outside your back door!).
		Myrmex is the source of myrmecology ("the study of ants") and of myrmecoleon, a fierce yet tiny predator, also known as the "ant-lion".
		This Latin word for "ant" is responsible for formic acid (which is what stings when they bite) and for formication, the medical term for an abnormal sensation that ants are crawling over one's skin.
	www.takeourword.com /TOW170/page1.html (499 words)

	Ant Facts
		When combined, all ants in the world weigh about as much as all human beings.
		In the Amazon rainforest, ants and termites make up nearly 1/3 of the total animal biomass.
		Scientists believe at least twice as many species of ants have yet to be discovered.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /local/scisoc/brownbag0203/antfacts.html (46 words)

	MSN Games - Free Online Games
		As of January 31, 2006, Ants will no longer be available on MSN Games.
		It's been an amazing journey and we hope you have enjoyed playing Ants as much as we have enjoyed creating and maintaining it for you.
		I am sorry to see the game come down, but I am grateful at the success and length of its run, and more importantly, grateful to you for receiving it so well and staying passionate about it after all this time.
	zone.msn.com /ants (235 words)

	THAT "ANTS ON A SHIP" PLAY
		To him, ants live in the perfect society, where "everyone is free because everyone knows exactly what to do." He sidesteps one troubling point--that this "free" society is ruled by a queen--by dismissing her as a figurehead.
		Some may call her anthill a fascist regime, but he declares, echoing the Sex Pistols, "She ain't no human being!" Of course, the mindlessness of an austere ant society--"To the ant, the Amish seem positively rococo," he yelps--throws into high relief one of the central crises of Marx's social determinism: the question of free will.
		The ant-in-training easily bargains away his free will for the chance to become an unalienated laborer: a worker ant experiences no schism between who he is an what he does.
	www.theateroobleck.com /anywhere.html (1125 words)

	Tiny Creatures - Thatch Ants
		Through close-up videography, follow the ant trails to find out what a scientist is learning about the organization and behavior of a thatch ant colony.
		Interestingly, there appears to be no hierarchy in a thatch ant colony.
		worker: any of the sexually underdeveloped and usually sterile members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps or termites that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony.
	www.opb.org /education/tinycreatures/thatchants/index.html (278 words)

	Ant Reference Library (e.g., books & journals) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I think that everybody who wants to know something about ants for any reason, should have the opportunity to find a list of books that are viewed as the best basis for ants in general !
		Ant articles are occasionally pblished in many other journals, but your list includes the main ones with myrmecological content.
		Fernández, C., and Palacio, G., 1999, Lenomyrmex, an enigmatic new ant genus from the Neotropical region (Hymenoptera : Formicidae : Myrmicinae.
	p211.ezboard.com /fantfarmfrm4.showMessage?topicID=337.topic (2572 words)

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