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Driver ants. Driver ants, from the genus Dorylus, are found in the Old World, especially West Africa and the Congo Basin. Unlike the army ants of the New World, Old World army ants have a functional sting but rarely use it, preferring their razor-sharp, falcate mandibles for defense instead. Dorylus spp. colonies also reach larger sizes than ...
Anthropomorphised ants have often been used in fables and children's stories to represent industriousness and cooperative effort. They also are mentioned in religious texts. [222] [223] In the Book of Proverbs in the Bible, ants are held up as a good example of hard work and cooperation. [224] Aesop did the same in his fable The Ant and the ...
Acorn ants are found in both rural and urban habitats. The acorn ant is temperature-sensitive, and urban environments tend to be hotter and change temperature more rapidly than rural ones. Urban populations of acorn ants can evolve improved heat tolerance and also increased plasticity in responding to temperature changes.
Third, not all eucharitids have a significant effect on the size of their hosts' colony. [8] Orasema species are sometimes used as means of biological control for many ants, including the fire ant and little fire ant, because pesticides can cause damage to the environment, and they do not always work on fire ants. In addition, at least two ...
The legend may also be based on the Book of Proverbs, which rabbinic Judaism traditionally ascribes to Solomon, [4] mentioning ants as exemplars of morality. [5] Of all the legends about Solomon's dominion over all creatures, the valley of the ants is the best known one among Jews.
The ants, though, lack compound eyes, are pale in colour, and lead a subterranean life, preying on small litter organisms. The workers have unusual, elongated mandibles, distinctly basal in their features. [2] Based on the morphology, the authors suggested the ants lead an underground life, possibly foraging on the surface during the night.
Hu’s research team found in similar experiments, published in Biology Open in February 2022, that rafting ants consumed almost 43 percent more energy than ants on dry land. But the larger the ...
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