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An ant pictured in the coat of arms of Multia, a town in Finland. Ant society has always fascinated humans and has been written about both humorously and seriously. Mark Twain wrote about ants in his 1880 book A Tramp Abroad. [230] Some modern authors have used the example of the ants to comment on the relationship between society and the ...
The notorious ant genus Myrmecia is known for their venomous stings and aggression, which has caused several human deaths in sensitive people. Subfamily Myrmeciinae Emery, 1877 – seven genera, 111 species [ 182 ]
see also Winkler extraction device used to extract ants and other living organism from soil and leaf-litter samples; a sample is placed on a screen with a funnel beneath, and a heat source above; the drying forces the animals downwards, where they fall into a collecting jar, usually filled with alcohol bivouac in army and driver ants, nest formed by the bodies of the ants themselves to protect ...
The bulldog ant Myrmecia brevinoda is the largest ant in the world in terms of average worker size [1]. The ant fauna of Australia is large and diverse. As of 1999, Australia and its external territories represent 1,275 described taxa (subspecies included) divided into 103 genera and 10 subfamilies. [2]
Beginning in the 1990s, molecular (DNA sequence) data have come to play a central role in attempts to reconstruct the ant "tree of life".Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on multiple nuclear genes have yielded robust results that reinforce some preexisting views but overturn others – and suggest that there has been considerable morphological convergence among some ant lineages.
The presence of the metapleural gland, the nodiform (a structure resembling a node, which is a segment found between the mesosoma and gaster, the bulbous posterior portion of the metasoma), the structure of the petiole and its general physical appearance of an ant concludes Sphecomyrma species are ants rather than wasps; the absence of the ...
Myrmicinae is a subfamily of ants, with about 140 extant genera; [1] their distribution is cosmopolitan.The pupae lack cocoons.Some species retain a functional sting.The petioles of Myrmicinae consist of two nodes.
Immaculate antbirds regularly attend army ant swarms in order to feed, but they are not obligate ant-followers; they also forage away from the swarms. Swarms of army ants are an important resource used by some species of antbird, and the one from which the family's common name is derived.