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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 ...
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.
Megaponera is a genus of ponerine ant first defined by Gustav Mayr in 1862 for the species Formica analis Latreille, 1802, [8] the sole species belonging to the genus to date. . In 1994 William L. Brown Jr. synonymised the genus under Pachycondyla even though he lacked phylogenetic justification, thereby changing the name from Megaponera foetens to Pachycondyla analis.
Like wasps and bees, ants are social and live in a colony with one or more queens. That means the workers have to keep finding food to keep everyone alive. That means the workers have to keep ...
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They have been extraordinarily successful, in part, because different nests of the introduced Argentine ants seldom attack or compete with each other, unlike most other species of ant. In their introduced range, their genetic makeup is so uniform that individuals from one nest can mingle in a neighboring nest without being attacked.
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 ]