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  2. Myrmecology - Wikipedia

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    Myrmecology (/ m ɜːr m ɪ ˈ k ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek: μύρμηξ, myrmex, "ant" and λόγος, logos, "study") is a branch of entomology focusing on the study of ants. Ants continue to be a model of choice for the study of questions on the evolution of social systems because of their complex and varied forms of social organization .

  3. Ant - Wikipedia

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    Ants also are quite popular inspiration for many science-fiction insectoids, such as the Formics of Ender's Game, the Bugs of Starship Troopers, the giant ants in the films Them! and Empire of the Ants, Marvel Comics' super hero Ant-Man, and ants mutated into super-intelligence in Phase IV.

  4. Antlion - Wikipedia

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    Antlion larvae eat small arthropods – mainly ants – while the adults of some species eat pollen and nectar, and others are predators of small arthropods. [17] In certain species of Myrmeleontidae, such as Dendroleon pantherinus , the larva, although resembling that of Myrmeleon structurally, makes no pitfall trap, but hides in detritus in a ...

  5. Amblyopone australis - Wikipedia

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    Amblyopone australis, the southern Michelin ant, is a species of ant in the genus Amblyopone, native to Australia. The species was described by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson in 1842. [1] Workers can vary in colour from yellow to dark brown or black. They have a body length of 4.5–8mm; queens are larger. [2]

  6. Carpenter ant - Wikipedia

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    Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers 7 to 13 mm or 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 ⁄ 2 in) indigenous to many forested parts of the world. [ 4 ] They build nests inside wood, consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles or jaws, preferably in dead, damp wood.

  7. Leafcutter ant - Wikipedia

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    The fungus cultivated by the adults is used to feed the ant larvae, and the adult ants feed on leaf sap. The fungus needs the ants to stay alive, and the larvae need the fungus to stay alive, so mutualism is obligatory. The fungi used by the higher attine ants no longer produce spores.

  8. Tetramorium immigrans - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the pavement ant. (a = queen; b = queen after loss of wings; c = male, d = worker, e = larva; g = pupa; f = head of larva more highly magnified) Tetramorium immigrans —also known as the immigrant pavement ant , pavement ant , [ note 1 ] and the sugar ant in parts of North America [ 1 ] [ note 2 ] —is an ant native to Europe ...

  9. List of ant genera - Wikipedia

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    Ants (family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera) ... Little is known about their biology. [41] [318] Subfamily Proceratiinae Emery, 1895 – four genera, 155 species ...