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Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant. [1] Their colonies are polydomous (consisting of multiple nests) and polygynous (containing multiple reproducing queens).
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 ...
· Carpenter ants vary in size from ¼ to 1/2 inch; they do not eat wood like termites, but they will excavate damp wood in your house to create galleries where they nest.
Not all ants follow the basic pattern described above. In army ants only males are alates, having wings. They fly out from their parent colony in search of other colonies where wingless virgin queens wait for them. A colony with an old queen and one or more mated young queens then divides, each successful queen taking a share of the workers.
"It's hard to describe, but there's no crawlspace in that part of the house," Andrew explains. "It's basically like roof, insulation, and then ceiling—there's not a lot of space in between."
A black drongo in a typical anting posture. Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting).
Ghost ants are monomorphic and the thorax is spineless. [3] The gaster is hairless, and has a back opening that is similar to a slit-like opening. [ 4 ] The abdominal pedicel is formed from a single segment that is usually unable to be seen due to the gaster, and the species do not contain a stinger. [ 3 ]
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