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A black garden ant (Lasius niger) engaging in necrophoresis. Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area.
[57] [6] The American entomologist David Wagner called the study a "clarion call" and "one of the most disturbing articles" he had ever read. [58] The researchers reported "biomass losses between 98% and 78% for ground-foraging and canopy-dwelling arthropods over a 36-year period, with respective annual losses between 2.7% and 2.2%". [ 6 ]
The Allegheny mound ant (Formica exsectoides) is a species of ant native to the Atlantic area of North America. Its range extends from Nova Scotia to parts of Georgia. Like other field ants, the Allegheny mound ant builds large mounds, however this species tends to build some of the largest. Aside from the mounds, the ants also act as pests by ...
A single, thriving ant colony can house up to 500,000 individuals.
Ants want to shelter from the pounding raindrops, but their underground colonies can get flooded. They also can be swept away in the downpour, since ants, like most insects, can float.
Three Plano restaurants were temporarily closed during the Sept. 24 to Oct. 28 health inspections and rodent droppings, live ants and dead roaches were found at two schools, according to data from ...
In the 1930s, colonies were accidentally introduced into the United States through the seaport of Mobile, Alabama.Despite earlier views that cargo ships from Brazil docking at Mobile unloaded goods infested with the ants, [1] recent DNA research confirmed that the likely source population for all invasive S. invicta in the United States occurred at or near Formosa, Argentina, and virtually ...
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