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Closeup view of a bull ant eye. While most ants have poor eyesight, Myrmecia ants have excellent vision. [70] This trait is important to them, since Myrmecia primarily relies on visual cues for navigation. [217] These ants are capable of discriminating the distance and size of objects moving nearly a metre away. [218]
Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 23 November 2005.. A study of the evolution and habits of invertebrates, it was the fifth of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth.
Renowned myrmecologist E. O. Wilson wrote a short story, "Trailhead" in 2010 for The New Yorker magazine, which describes the life and death of an ant-queen and the rise and fall of her colony, from an ants' point of view. [233] The French neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist Auguste Forel believed that ant societies were models for ...
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Pharaoh ant workers have a non-functional stinger used to generate pheromones. [5] The petiole (narrow waist between the thorax and abdomen) has two nodes and the thorax has no spines. Pharaoh ant eyesight is poor and they possess on average 32 ommatidia. [6] The antennal segments end in a distinct club with three progressively longer segments.
The black ants try to give them a sugar cube as a peace offering, but the red ants pursue them to get the rest of the sugar. The black ants escape by riding the tin down an embankment and into a river, with the red ants pursuing them in a soda can. At the rapids, Cox falls overboard and the ants rescue him from a pike named Boboche.
Allomerus decemarticulatus is an Amazonian ant species found in the tropics of South America. [1] This species is most notable for the workers’ complex and extreme predatory behavior, which involves a symbiosis with both a plant and fungal species. [2]
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