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2. Ant-keeping - Wikipedia

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   A formicarium, which is a housing for an ant colony. Note the talcum powder/rubbing alcohol lubricant mixture applied around the top perimeter of the enclosure, to prevent ants from escaping. Ant-keeping (or ant keeping) is a hobby involving the capture, care, and observation of ants and ant colonies. [1] It is a form of lay myrmecology. The ...

3. Formicarium - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, it is usually illegal to ship live queen ants across state lines without a permit, and most ant farms sold in the US contain no queens. [citation needed] Professional ant shops and suppliers may ship ants only within the state where they reside. In the European Union, some domestic species are protected, and it is illegal ...

4. Queen ant - Wikipedia

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   A queen ant (formally known as a gyne) is an adult, reproducing female ant in an ant colony; she is usually the mother of all the other ants in that colony. Some female ants, such as the Cataglyphis , do not need to mate to produce offspring, reproducing through asexual parthenogenesis or cloning , and all of those offspring will be female. [ 1 ]

5. Scientists have discovered a totally bizarre ant colony ...

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   An unusual ant colony has been documented in a recently published study. The population lives in an old bunker that was used to house nuclear weapons. Scientists have discovered a totally bizarre ...

6. Ant colony - Wikipedia

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   An ant colony is a population of ants, typically from a single species, capable of maintaining their complete lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial , communal, and efficiently organized and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera , though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent ...

7. Nothomyrmecia - Wikipedia

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   A queen ant will mate with one or more males and, during colony foundation, she will hunt for food until the brood have fully developed. Queens are univoltine (they produce just one generation of ants each year). Two queens may establish a colony together, but only one will remain once the first generation of workers has been reared.

8. Social conflict in ants - Wikipedia

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   In ants, social conflicts, sex conflicts, or caste conflicts can exist. These conflicts occur within the same colony or supercolony at various levels: on an individual scale, between two or more specific ants; on the scale of sex, between males and females; or on the scale of different castes, between queens and workers.

9. Army ant - Wikipedia

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   Due to the queen's large reproductive potential, a colony of army ants can be descended from a single queen. [10] When the queen ant dies, there is no replacement and army ants cannot rear emergency queens. Most of the time, if the queen dies, the colony will likely die too. Queen loss can occur due to accidents during emigrations, predator ...