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2. How To Get Rid Of Ants In Your House Once And For All - AOL

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   · Store birdseed in a sealed container, says Benson. · Pick up pet food bowls every day so ants aren’t attracted, says Benson. · Keep pantry items in sealed containers. Depending on the ...

3. Formicarium - Wikipedia

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   The plaster is poured onto the mold, and when the plaster dries, the clay is removed and the remaining structure can be used for housing ants. The ants in this type of formicarium are very easily seen. Mediumless formicaria may be in any container, with the ants staying in moist test tubes or other small containers. This also allows for better ...

4. Tapinoma sessile - Wikipedia

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   Foragers collect food that is around the nest area and bring it back to the colony to share with the other ants. T. sessile has polydomous colonies, meaning that one colony has multiple nests. Because of this, T. sessile is very good at foraging for food when there is great variance in the distribution of resources. Instead of going back to a ...

5. Honeypot ant - Wikipedia

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   Honey ants are unique in using their own bodies as living storage, used later by their fellow ants when food is otherwise scarce. When the liquid stored inside a honeypot ant is needed, the worker ants stroke the antennae of the honeypot ant, causing the honeypot ant to regurgitate the stored liquid from its crop. [4] [5]

6. Yes, Ants Actually Farm Their Food - AOL

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   Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.

7. Myrmecocystus mexicanus - Wikipedia

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   Myrmecocystus mexicanus is a species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus, which is one of the six genera that bear the common name "honey ant" or "honeypot ant", due to curious behavior where some of the workers will swell with liquid food until they become immobile and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers, acting as living food storage for the colony.