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Two ants fighting over a dead wasp. Wars or conflicts can break out between different groups in some ant species for a variety of reasons. These violent confrontations typically involve entire colonies, sometimes allied with each other, and can end in a stalemate, the complete destruction of one of the belligerents, the migration of one of the groups, or, in some cases, the establishment of ...
8. – Green ant vs. Paper wasp 7. – Tiger leeches vs.Freshwater crab 6. – Trap-jaw ant vs. Antlion 5. – Assassin bug vs. Ogre-faced spider 4. – Desert centipede vs. Desert trapdoor spider 3. – Giant rainforest mantis vs. Spiny leaf insect 2. – Green jumping spider vs. Long-jawed jumping spider 1. – Tree scorpion vs. Green ant
Julia Roberts as Hova, a nurse ant who teaches Lucas the ways of the ant. Nicolas Cage as Zoc, a wizard ant. Meryl Streep as The Queen Ant, leader of the Ant colony. Paul Giamatti as Stan Beals, A local exterminator. Regina King as Kreela, a forager ant that forages. Bruce Campbell as Fugax, a scout ant that scouts. [2] Lily Tomlin as Mommo ...
Flying ants have wings that are longer in the front and shorter in the back. Termites have four wings that are the same size, translucent and stacked on top of each other. Flying ants have a ...
Being the largest ants on Earth, army ants, such as African Dorylus queens have the greatest reproductive potential among insects, with an egg-laying capacity of several million per month. Army ant queens never have to leave the protection of the colony, where they mate with foreign incoming males which disperse on nuptial flights.
Apocrita (wasps, bees and ants) Hymenoptera is a large order of insects , comprising the sawflies , wasps , bees , and ants . Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. [ 4 ]
In order to deal with this ongoing escapist battle, insects have evolved a wide range of defense mechanisms. The only restraint on these adaptations is that their cost, in terms of time and energy, does not exceed the benefit that they provide to the organism. The further that a feature tips the balance towards beneficial, the more likely that ...
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.