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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 ant day" is an informal term for the day on which future queen ants emerge from the nest to begin their nuptial flight, [6] although citizen science based research has demonstrated that nuptials flights are not particularly spatially or temporally synchronised.
Flying ants have a pinched, small waist; whereas termites have a thick waist. The antennas on flying ants are elbowed, meaning they come out to the side and then they bend upwards. Termite ...
Truthfully, it was a blessing in disguise that these biting, wood-loving ants fell on Andrew and his wife that night: Had they not been there, the colony could've easily done a lot of damage to ...
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.
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Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the Hymenoptera family Formicidae belonging to the tribe Oecophyllini. Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal ) and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk . [ 3 ]
Leafcutter ants live only in South America, Mexico, Central America, and a few select areas of the Southern United States, including Texas.. There are at least 55 distinct species of leaf cutter ...