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An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a "death spiral" because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion. It has been reproduced in ...
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 ).
The "smell of death" research has been permitted as evidence in court. In the 2011 Caylee Anthony case, in which Casey Anthony was accused of having murdered her 2-year-old daughter, the scent from inside the trunk of the car in which she was accused of having stored a dead body was collected and then assessed by an expert witness. [7]
A phenomenon where army ants follow each other in circles, sometimes until they die — and thus known as an “ant death spiral” — was captured on camera at a university in Venezuela ...
Ants do this when they lose track of their colony, and sometimes will keep walking until death Ants walk around in a never-ending circle known as an “ant death spiral” [Video] Skip to main content
When threatened, it will voluntarily flex its gasters and explode, producing a highly toxic chemical sludge (with a spice-like smell) that will hopefully cover and kill or repel said instigator. In addition to helping protect the ant against potentially threatening predators, it is thought due to its "strong antimicrobial and low insecticidal ...
Santa Barbara County has spent a total of $15,000 eradicating local populations of red imported fire ants ... people have died after numerous bites from the venomous red imported fire ant. "[Death ...
In more recent times, animated cartoons and 3-D animated films featuring ants have been produced including Antz, A Bug's Life, The Ant Bully, The Ant and the Aardvark, Ferdy the Ant and Atom Ant. Renowned myrmecologist E. O. Wilson wrote a short story, "Trailhead" in 2010 for The New Yorker magazine, which describes the life and death of an ant ...