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	Ant - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Ants are distinguished from other insects by the following traits: elbowed antennae; a strongly constricted second abdominal segment forming a distinct node-like petiole; the petiole can be formed by one or two "parts" or segments (only the second, or the second and third abdominal segments can form it).
		Ant bodies, like other insects, have an exoskeleton, meaning their bodies are externally covered in a protective casing, as opposed to the internal skeletal framework of humans and other vertebrates.
		Ants and their larvae are eaten in different parts of the world.In Mexico, larvae of Liometopum ants, known locally as escamoles are considered a great delicacy.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ant (4354 words)

	Weaver ant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Weaver ants (genus Oecophylla) are social insects belonging to the ant family, known for their communication and nest building behaviour.
		Weaver ants are found in the tropical forests of Africa and southeast Asia.
		The weaver ants emergent organization and eating behaviour is applied as natural bio-control of pests in orchards, where they are introduced on trees in order to build nests and act as natural pest control.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weaver_ant (355 words)

	Ant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ant colonies are sometimes described as superorganisms because they appear to operate as a single entity.
		Ants are distinguished from other insects by the following traits: elbowed antennae; a strongly constricted second abdominal segment forming a distinct node-like petiole; the petiole can be formed by one or two "parts" or segments (only the second, or the second and third abdominal segments can form it).
		Ant bodies, like other insects, have an exoskeleton, meaning their bodies are externally covered in a protective casing, as opposed to the internal skeletal framework of humans and other vertebrates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ant (4069 words)

	Ant - MSN Encarta
		Harvester ants are abundant in the deserts of North America, where the combined weight of all harvester ants in the area may equal that of seed-eating rodents.
		Ant bread may be fed to larvae, which are the only ants capable of digesting solid food, or it may be chewed further to become a liquid that can be swallowed by adult ants.
		Weaver ants are tree-dwelling ants that live in the warm parts of Asia, Africa, and Australia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556353_5/Ant.html (1142 words)

	Ant - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Ant colonies are sometimes described as superorganisms because the colony appears to operate as a single entity.
		Ants are holometabolous, and develop by complete metamorphosis, passing through larval and pupal stages (with the pupae being exarate) before they become adults.
		Weaver ants collaborating to dismember a red ant (the two at the extremities are pulling the red ant, while the middle one cuts the red ant until she snaps).
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Ant (5448 words)

	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)

	IPM Forum - Integrated Pest Management Forum
		Ants reinforce their nests with thick layers of leaves at the end of the rainy season because at that time a lot of heavy rains occur.
		Better is first to lure the strong soldier weaver ants by putting a rope from one of the trees with nests to a container with food such as shrimps (figure 1a).
		In case of fl ants attacking a newly introduced weaver ant colony, it is even possible to introduce an aid force of a different colony to the base camp of the fl ants.
	www.cabi-publishing.org /IPM/devtwo.htm (2272 words)

	Weaver Ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Weaver ants are bright reddish-colored ants found in the tropical forests of Africa, India, and south to Australia and the Solomon Islands.
		Weaver ants are the champions of cooperation because they build elaborate nests in treetops, even using their own young to spin silky threads that sew the nest together.
		A Weaver Ants' nest is introduced into the orchard, and the ants are encouraged to colonize all the trees by placing bamboo strips among the trees to serve as "ant bridges".
	www.globio.org /glossopedia/weaverant (666 words)

	Weaver ant
		Adult weaver ants are reddish to brown in color and have 10-segmented antennae with 2-segmented clubs.
		Weaver ants get their name from their habit of binding fresh leaves with silk to form their nests.
		Introduce only native weaver ants to the orchard when no fl ants' species are present to ensure the establishment of a weaver ant colony.
	www.oisat.org /control_methods/natural_enemies/predators/weaver_ant.html (653 words)

	Weaver ant
		Adult weaver ants are reddish to brown in color and have 10-segmented antennae with 2-segmented clubs.
		Introduce only native weaver ants to the orchard when no fl ants' species are present to ensure the establishment of a weaver ant colony.
		To expand weaver ants' colonies to other field crops, tie a rope to a tree where they live, to guide them to the areas you want them to colonize.
	oisat.org /control_methods/natural_enemies/predators/weaver_ant.html (653 words)

	IPM Forum - Integrated Pest Management Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The density of the trees is such that all tree canopies touch one another, enabling the spread of the weaver ant throughout the orchard.
		That the weaver ant is a good predator on citrus and other trees such as mango, longan, lychee, cashew and coconut palm is widely known by the scientific community.
		Besides predation of insect pests, the weaver ant also attacks or deters a small type of rat that feed on fruit in and around his orchard.
	www.cabi-publishing.org /IPM/development.htm (872 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.
		The active space shaped as a vapor "tunnel" should be restricted in width to maintain the integrity of the trail, and the ants should be capable of detecting a concentration gradient to stay near the center of the trail.
	www.frontiernet.net /~jlkeefer/ants.htm (2020 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Through the natural limits of expansion the ants are facing in their geographical habitat, different demands are placed on the ant nest in which the most important part of an ant's life takes place.
		The ant colony and its surroundings are richly structured into many microhabitats, such as the foraging trunk routes, refuse areas, peripherial nest chambers and guard nests, storage chambers, brood chambers with separate areas for pupae, larvae and eggs, queen chambers and the bodies of adult and immature inhabitants of the nest.
		This is the highest level of mutualism between the ants and the plant, as the plant provides the ants with nourishing secretions and the plants are nourished by the carton nests.
	www.arthur.nl /rhyzome/ants.htm (2376 words)

	Green Ants - info and games
		Australian Green tree ants, or Oecophylla smaragina, are a type of Weaver ant found in South-east Asia and Northern Australia.
		Green tree ants are obviously distinguished by their green bodies (sometimes yellow); a noticeable difference from their red ant cousins.
		Like many ants, their body is divided into four parts – the head, mesosoma, petiole and petiole, and the gaster.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /content/animals/animals/breeds/ant_greenant.htm (443 words)

	Weaver Ants - info and games
		Weaver ants (genus Oecophylla) are social insects belonging to the ant family, known for their communication and nest building behavior.
		Weaver ants are found in the tropical forests of Africa and southeast Asia.
		The Weaver ants emergent organization and eating behavior is applied as natural bio-control of pests in orchards, where they are introduced on trees in order to build nests and act as natural pest control.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /content/animals/animals/breeds/ant_weaverant.htm (290 words)

	Weaver Ants - Traditional pest control method under threat
		The Vietnamese tradition of using weaver ants to protect citrus crops is in danger of being lost, according to a farmer participatory specialist having studied the practice over the past six years.
		Weaver ants get their name from their habit of binding living leaves with silk to form communal nests in trees.
		Use of the weaver ant as a pest management method is reported to protect both fruit and nut crops from pests and can also deter small rats.
	www.new-agri.co.uk /03-2/develop/dev02.html (672 words)

	allAfrica.com: Africa: Tropical Weaver Ants Could Save Fruits (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He added that the use of the weaver ant to control fruit infestations is expected to challenge and radically redefine classical methods of biological control of pests.
		Weaver ants are better than various parasitoids currently in place, which attack specific species of fruits fly, necessitating development of numerous species-specific parasitoids, each of which takes 10 years or more to develop.
		The readily-available weaver ant is indiscriminate in its predation on fruit flies and is active throughout the year.
	allafrica.com /stories/200707180119.html (679 words)

	Green Tree Ant
		The green tree ant found in Northern Australia is a type of weaver ant found in many parts of the world.
		If one ant cannot reach the next leave to join it to the nest, the green tree ants will build a ant chain to slowly pull the leaves into and connect them to the nest they are building.
		Weaver ants will attack perceived intruders to defend their nest etc. Though they do not have a sting, after biting their enemy they secrete an acid (venom) from the tip of their abdomen into the wound to cause "discomfort" and irritation.
	home.iprimus.com.au /readman/ant.htm (653 words)

	Meethil Momaya Wildlife Photography
		Ants are social insects, which means, they live in large colonies or groups.
		In the simplest case, each colony of Weaver Ants consists of the queen and her daughters – the workers.
		Ants are in fact little chemical factories, continuously producing an array of substances called pheromones that serves as the ant’s language.
	www.meethil.com /features/ants/weaverants1.htm (455 words)

	Ant Pictures
		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.
		Weaver ants (Oecophylla) build nest in trees by attaching leaves together, first pulling them together with bridges of workers and then sewing them together by pressing silk-producing larvae against them in alternation.
	www.junglewalk.com /photos/Ant-pictures.htm (1197 words)

	The Ants of Africa
		Bradshaw, J.W.S. and Howse, P.E. Sociochemicals of ants.
		Ants in relation to damage in West African cocoa farms caused by the capsids Distantiella theobroma (Dist.) and Sahlbergella singularis Hagl.
		Dejean, A. and Lachaud, J.-P. Ecology and behavior of the seed-eating ponerine ant Brachyponera senaarensis (Mayr).
	www.antbase.org /ants/africa/referen1.htm (1865 words)

	Ants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All ants live in colonies which typically include a large force of workers and a single, or several queens, along with successive life-history stages, eggs, larvae and pupae; the composition may vary seasonally.
		Originally from Africa, the Coastal Brown Ant, Pheidole megacephala, is prominent in domestic situations in the Perth/Fremantle area; Darwin; and east coast towns, south at least to Sydney.
		The Singapore Ant is a major nuisance in tropical agriculture, especially where hand-cropping is practiced; it tends plant-disease transmitting aphids and other insects, and damages soil by its nesting.
	www.boomerangei.com.au /ants.htm (1526 words)

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		The Weaver was gifted Ratkin, who would watch from within the towns of man. The Wyrm was gifted with the silent and deadly Arkaroo, who would watch the scrubland and deserts and the Chiroptera, who would fly at night protecting the sky, as the Corax did during the day.
		ANT Totem of Respect Background Cost: 3 Ant is a hunter/gatherer, who believes in the values of the family and hive society.
		Ant's followers, though somewhat annoying cause they're always on the "move," are generally viewed with good a nature.
	www.identicalsoftware.com /rpg/wod/werewolf/totems.insect.txt (4950 words)

	weaver red ant (oecophylla smaragdina): info fact sheet, photos
		The weaver ants do not have a stinger, but inflict a painful bite which is aggravated by irritating chemicals secreted from their abdomen.
		A Weaver Ants' nest is introduced into the orchard, and the ants encouraged to colonise all the trees by placing bamboo strips among the trees as "ant bridges".
		Eat the ants that bite you by Frank Cimatu from the Philippines Inquirer: details about how ants and their larvae are harvested for food.
	www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/inverts/weaver_ants.htm (783 words)

	The Amazing Ant-mimicking Spider
		Readers who have yet to cross their path (quite unlikely as weaver ants are a common species found in plantations, orchards, gardens, and the belukar or forest fringe), should know that they have no fear of humans and attack without hestitation.
		Weaver ant workers which forage for food are larger than those which care for eggs and larvae inside the nest.
		It is believed that the spiders are able to produce pheromones, or chemical scents, to trick the weaver ants into accepting them as members of their colony.
	members.fortunecity.com /chinfahshin/1folder/antmimic.html (1209 words)

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