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Topic: List of ant genera (alphabetical)


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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.
A crushed ant will emit an alarm pheromone that in high concentration sends other ants nearby into an attack frenzy, and in lower concentration attracts them, while a few ants use what are called propaganda pheromones to confuse their enemies.
Myrmecophilous or ant-loving caterpillars (blues, coppers, or hairstreaks), which are herded by the ants, led to feeding areas in daytime and brought inside the ants nest at night.
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 Ant - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The ants, one of the most successful groups of insects, are of particular interest because they form advanced colonies, and can constitute up to 15% of the total animal biomass of a tropical rainforest.
Ant trails have no intrinsic polarity; that is to say, an ant walking on a straight non-branching trail cannot tell whether it is walking to or from the nest.
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.
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 Ant - Wikinfo
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.
Ant is also computer software system, a Java-based build system.
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 ipedia.com: Ant Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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).
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 List of reference tables - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
List of city nicknames (with a separate list of city nicknames in the United States)
List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century
List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_reference_tables   (893 words)

  
 List of reference tables Details, Meaning List of reference tables Article and Explanation Guide
This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
List of city nicknames (with a separate list of city nicknames in the United States)
List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
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 List of myrmecology topics - Wikinfo
The following is a list of topics associated with myrmecology (the study of ants).
List of established non-endemic ant species of the British Isles
List of locales in Britain where ant species have become locally extinct
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=List_of_myrmecology_topics   (421 words)

  
 Systematics, Morphology and Evolution | Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources
An Illustrated Atlas of the Laemophloeidae Genera of the World - Illustrations of all the described laemophloeid genera (Coleoptera:Laemophloeidae), with notes on their distribution and number of species.
An Introduction to Ants (Formicidae) of the Tallgrass Prairie - by James C. Trager.
AntWeb - ant faunas of several areas in the Nearctic and Malagasy biogeographic regions, and global coverage of all ant genera
www.ent.iastate.edu /list/directory/105   (2721 words)

  
 Ant Pictures
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Ants are mostly wingless, which varies between individuals in a colony rather than between species.
The surviving queens can live up to around 15 years.
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