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	Wood Ant
		The southern (or red) wood ant is a large, aggressive ant with a reddish thorax and fl head and abdomen.
		Wood ants do not easily colonise new areas and for this reason, it is recommended that the emphasis for conservation effort should be upon trying to maintain existing populations rather than on attempting reintroduction to former sites.
		Robinson, N.A.l (1999) The status of the Red Wood Ant Formica rufa L. in Cumbria and Lancashire in 1999.
	www.lbap.org.uk /bap/species/woodant.htm (983 words)

	Ant Hill Wood. \| "Go to the ant thou sluggard, and be wise."
		Note that not all winged ants are females, as some can be males; but the distinctive shape of the thorax and gaster of this ant definitely show her to be an alate female, who once she has successfully mated, will shed her wings and become an active fertile egg laying queen ant.
		Ants have powerful jaws, and the bigger the ant, the more force is exerted in the pressure of the mandibles; resulting in a much harder bite.
		The worker ants were not too happy having my sized 7 shoe on their home;so they set about attacking the giant intruder,determined to have their revenge for me trespassing on their home.
	www.anthill.org.uk /woodantgallery.htm (897 words)

	Ant - LoveToKnow 1911
		For the appreciation of the sounds made by these stridulators, the ants are furnished with delicate organs of hearing (chordotonal organs) in the head, in the three thoracic and two of the abdominal segments and in the shins of the legs.
		But there are several subfamilies of ants whose females have the lancets of the sting useless for piercing, although the poison-glands are functional, their secretion being ejected by the insect, when occasion may arise, from the greatly enlarged reservoir, the reduced sting acting as a squirt.
		Ants invite one another to work, or ask for food from one another, by means of pats with the feelers; and they respond to the solicitations of their guest-beetles or mites, who ask for food by patting the ants with their feet.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ant (3094 words)

	Gordon's Ant Page
		Ants are amazingly successful creatures, on the Ivory Coast in Africa there can be as many as 7 000 colonies of ants per hectare, with an average of around 2 850 ants per colony this adds up 20 000 000 ants per hectare or 2 000 per square metre.
		Ants which have collected some nectar can carry more than they need for themselves in their crops and this extra can be shared with other members of the colony when they get back to the nest.
		Ants are not born with an inherent knowledge of all the work they have to do, but learn by copying their older nest mates.
	www.earthlife.net /insects/ants.html (2162 words)

	Define Wood ant definition \| Multi-Dictionary \| Words Wood ant (Site not responding. Last check: )
		{Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
		(a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad.
		{Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood.
	www.hydroponicsearch.com /spelling/simplesearch/query_term-Wood+ant/database-%2A/strategy-exact (1492 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Wood ant (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But there are several subfamilies of ants whose females have the lancets of the sting useless for piercing, although the poison-glands are functional, their secretion being ejected by the insect, when occasion may arise, from the greatly enlarged reservoir, the reduced sting acting as a squirt.
		In tropical countries ants sometimes make their nests in the hollow thorns of trees or on leaves; species with this habit are believed to make a return to the tree for the shelter that it affords by protecting it from the ravages of other insects, including their own leaf-cutting relations.
		Ants invite one another to work, or ask for food from one another, by means of pats with the feelers; and they respond to the solicitations of their guest-beetles or mites, who ask for food by patting the ants with their feet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wood-ant (299 words)

	Insects and Arthropods » Ants » Red Wood Ant Main Page
		The Red Wood Ant, also known as the "Formica Ant", is the dominant species of ant in Europe and Asia.
		Red Wood Ants are primarily found in Europe and Asia, with a distribution as far North as Scandinavia, south to Italy and west to Russia.
		With an average length of one and a half a centimeter to one centimeter, Wood Ants are moderate in size.
	www.petsencyclopedia.com /animals/insects/ants/ant4647.html (749 words)

	References and abstracts
		Skinner, G.J. (1980) The feeding habits of the wood ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in limestone woodland in north-west England.
		Relatively constant temperature and moisture in the nest surfacer continuous energy input by the ants to the nests, and ant-induced reduction in predation pressure on macropredators are suggested to be responsible for the development of the typical decomposer community structure in the nest mounds.
		The effects of the ants on the insects, and hence on the damage by the herbivores to the trees were measured.
	www.callnetuk.com /home/ants/antsref.html (6550 words)

	What To Do About Household Ants
		Ants are one of the most common pests in and around homes in the north central states.
		All ants have a pair of elbowed (bent) antennae on the head and a constricted area between the thorax and abdomen called the petiole.
		Acrobat ants have the following characteristics: 1) petiole with two nodes; the petiole is attached to the top of the abdomen, 2) head lacks distinctive furrows (lines), 3) a pair of spines on the posterior portion of the thorax, and 4) heart shaped abdomen [compare to pavement ants].
	www.extension.umn.edu /distribution/housingandclothing/M1166.html (3551 words)

	Ant nests in plants
		Ants, through their very intimate relations to plants, have come to take every advantage of cavities found in these organisms.
		The dead wood of standing or prostrate trunks is often extensively riddled by the galleries of Cremastogaster lineolata and Camponotus pennsylvanicus, noveboracensis, ferrugineus, and levigatus.
		These insects, which are popularly known as carpenter ants, apparently start their intricate galleries in spots where the wood has decayed or has been in part destroyed by other insects.
	www.antcolonies.net /antnestsinplants.html (901 words)

	Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime - Wood Ants (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wood ants are larger than normal ants, measuring between 5 and 11 millimetres long.
		The narrow headed ant and the red robber ant are found at the edges of the native pinewoods.
		Wood ants will only be found in conifer woods where there is enough light and food, they can also be found in open plantations where there is enough sun to warm the nest as well as enough food.
	www.snh.org.uk /wildlifecrimeschools/index.asp?tm=70 (541 words)

	Myrms Ant Nest - Species of Ants
		Ants are sun loving creatures and our cooler climate is not suited to many of them, however, the species we have here are certainly worthy of study.
		These ants build small mounds in our lawns and are often mistaken for red ants due to their yellow-orange colour, yet they are no more harmful than their common fl cousins.
		An interesting feature of this ant is that they appear to bury their food in mounds of soil; I have certainly witnessed this in my Tetramorium impurum colony.
	www.antnest.co.uk /species.html (828 words)

	Myrms Ant Nest - Castes of Ants
		As its caste name suggests these ants are the ones that carry out the daily tasks of the colony such as foraging, brood care, nest repair and defence, and taking care of the queen.
		They are usually larger than the workers, and are instantly recognisable by the difference in size of the thorax (the middle section of the ants body) in relation to that of the worker; this is due to the wing muscles of the queen.
		Often workers are the first ants into the fight but the soldiers are quickly called in to render assistance to their smaller colleagues.
	www.antnest.co.uk /caste.html (620 words)

	Red Wood Ant
		Ants: It is a close relative of the well known Red Wood Ant.
		The southern (or red) wood ant is a large, aggressive ant with a reddish thorax and fl head and abdomen.
		Metla Hanke 3383 ANTS Study areas: All red wood ant mounds in the study sites were inventoried, their physical properties (height and diameter) were measured, and their location was determined...
	www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/QR/Red_Wood_Ant.shtml (2144 words)

	Norsey Wood Society - Wood Ants
		All ants are social insects, living in colonies and usually having female (queen), male and worker castes.
		The bulk of the ants in a colony are workers.
		The foragers are the worker ants, which are non-breeding females whose function is to collect food, to build, clean and repair the nest, and to defend the nest against predators and rival ants.
	www.norseywood.org.uk /wood/fauna-and-flora/wood-ants.htm (487 words)

	Carpenter Ants: Identification, Biology and Control - Harvard University
		The fl carpenter ant in nature occurs primarily in forested areas, where it nests in the dead wood of standing trees, fallen logs, and in stumps.
		Worker ants must leave the nest on a regular basis (they are most active at night during the summer) and search nearby vegetation for food.
		This moist wood is often found under dishwashers, along gutters that have plugged up with leaves, under the ledges of windows when the paint is peeling, under wood decks holding water against the house and next to plumbing leaks.
	www.uos.harvard.edu /ehs/pes_carpenterants.shtml (1539 words)

	Carpenter Ants - Carpenter Ant Control/Treatment
		Carpenter ants are large, from 1/4 o 3/8 inches long and are dark brown to fl, but some may have red or yellow coloration.
		The fl carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, in the east and C. modoc in the west are the most thoroughly studied species in the United States.
		Wood that has been damaged by carpenter ants contain no mud-like material, as is the case with termites.
	www.doyourownpestcontrol.com /carpenter_ants.htm (1462 words)

	Ant Control - How To Get Rid Of Ants - Ant Baits -Ant Killer
		A good ant bait program is the recommended way for ant control or to eliminate most ants unless you use a nonrepellent insecticide such as Termidor SC or Phantom.
		Advance 375 A and Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel are excellent baits for the larger carpenter ants, when used together they feed both the sugar and protein feeding cycles of these ants.
		There are exceptions to baiting for carpenter ant control, and that is treating the nest directly.
	www.doyourownpestcontrol.com /ants.htm (809 words)

	Ants or SuperAnts?
		The invading ants are in millions of nests in a supercolony stretching from northern Italy, through the south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain, in what is thought to be the largest co-operative unit of individual organisms.
		Because competition is directed outward instead of inward and because Argentine ants have the advantage of multiple queens in each colony, they have displaced native ants and become one of California's leading household and agricultural pests.
		The longest living ants _ wood ant queens _ are known to live more than 20 years.
	www.perceptions.couk.com /superants.html (1085 words)

	Ant colonies
		The inquiry will here be limited to ants; but the study requires the statement of some preliminary facts, so that readers may have a true conception of the field which our thoughts are to explore.
		For example, the eggs of ants and bees are dropped separately, yet they produce insects of the strongest social habits.
		Beginning life solitary, as in the case of the maternal founder of an ant's nest, the individual becomes a family, and the family a community, and this may develop into a vast commonwealth containing many thousands or even millions of individuals.
	www.antcolonies.net (718 words)

	Wood Ants, Carpenter Ant, Controlling Infestations
		Carpenter ant workers tend to roam far and wide looking for food, and some transient workers are sure to enter any home located in a wooded area.
		Ants normally excavate wood that has been softened by decay or other insects, however, they will tunnel into sound wood when conditions are favorable.
		Advance Carpenter Ant Bait is an ant bait that is scattered around piles of wood, around structures or in the home.
	www.pestproducts.com /woodants.htm (410 words)

	red wood ant pile (Formica aquilonia) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ants are both scavengers and general predators of insects, carrying many soft- bodied caterpillars, flies, and sawflies along their several major trails back to the nest (McNeil et al.
		In forests weakened by pollution and acid rain in central Europe, red wood ant populations are often endangered for little known reasons which in turn causes further imbalances in predator-prey dynamics and the ecosystem (Gösswald 1984, 1985).
		Gösswald, K. Wood ants as indicators of forest diseases with special reference to mass breeding of females.
	vinsonlab.tamu.edu /former/john/formica.htm (413 words)

	Carpenter Ants
		Carpenter ants in the Northwest range in size (6-18mm) and in color (red to brown to fl), so color and size (as with most insects) are not good characteristics to use.
		Many times, ants forage for food inside the house but are not nesting in any of the wooden structures of the house.
		Normally, ants are extremely protective of their nest and young but the Microdon is able to trick the ants into thinking that its just one of the colony by its smell; the maggot mimics the pheromones of the ant.
	whatcom.wsu.edu /ag/homehort/pest/carpenter.htm (980 words)

	Ants
		Larger ants, called soldiers, are produced for defense and usually have large strong jaws used to protect the colony.
		Ants will transport aphids from plant to plant and take the eggs into their colony for the winter.
		Carpenter ants are fl or reddish fl with large jaws and are among the largest ants.
	www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us /4th/KKhp/1insects/ant.html (633 words)

	Metla Hanke 3383 ANTS
		Timber harvesting has a negative effect on wood ant activity and their role in carbon and nutrient cycling, and carbon and nutrient accumulation into mounds is greatly reduced.
		The protection of aphids by wood ants reduces the growth of coniferous trees, which is economically important.
		Valuable information will be obtained on the impact of wood ants on carbon and nutrient cycling in Finnish forest, and on the possible effect of the ant-aphid-relationship on tree growth.
	www.metla.fi /hanke/3383/ants (281 words)

	AntCam - Products - Ant Terrariums and Accessories
		This terrarium is for the professional that wants to have both sides visible and a frame designed of wood that is readily disassemblable for cleaning.
		Also in general if the wood breaths slightly I believe this is generally a good thing.
		The only issues are that you should plug the open end in case ants chew through the nipple (when empty this will happen).
	www.antcam.com /products/ant_farm.html (1139 words)

	Ant Hill Wood. \| "Go to the ant thou sluggard, and be wise."
		Welcome to my Ant Hill, which is mainly concerned with the study of British ant species; but does have photos and information on a few more exotic kinds of ants as well, so it has grown to become more involved with many other ant species from around the world.
		I hope you will enjoy this ant site of mine and take delight in the information to be found herein, which is mainly intended for the novice ant lover; and is not meant to be an in-depth study of Myrmecology (The study of ants).
		I would like to point out that the new version of the Ant Hill World forum (created and launched on January 7th, 2006.) is now owned and run by my wife Jenny, as she is the sole administrator; with Myrm as her Deputy Admin.
	www.anthill.org.uk (1494 words)

	Just Poles - Supplier of Curtain Poles and Tracks
		Copes Classique 35mm Ribbed Oval Finial - Ant Ivory
		Copes Steelus 19mm & 25mm - Wood Cone H-Back
		Silent Gliss Metropole 23mm Wood paddle finial - Beech
	www.justpoles.com /uploads/html (3148 words)

	Wood Ant
		These are the big ants that you see when you are out for a walk in the woods, or whatever you do when you are in the woods, anyway these chaps build big mounds out of old leaves and other detritus and can be 2 - 3 feet high...
		If you are quiet near a mound you can quite easily hear the rustling that these ants make as they are busy with their chores.
		Below is a picture of a wood ant defending an aphid farm....yes they do farm aphids just the same as we do cows.
	www.the-piedpiper.co.uk /th3e.htm (186 words)

	Action plan for Formica aquilonia
		In Europe this ant is found from the Alps to Siberia and from northern Italy to Arctic Norway.
		The response of populations of the Scottish wood ant to the regeneration of Caledonian pine forest is being monitored by SNH as a part of the Cairngorms Project.
		Monitor the response of the Scottish wood ant to the regeneration of Caledonian pine forest and birch woodland.
	www.ukbap.org.uk /UKPlans.aspx?ID=306 (569 words)

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