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The worker longhorn crazy ant is about 2.3 to 3.0 mm (0.09 to 0.12 in) long with a brownish-black head, thorax, petiole, and gaster, often with a faint blue iridescence. The body has a few short, whitish bristles and the antennae and limbs are pale brown.
The longhorn crazy ant (Paratrechina longicornis) made an appearance as one of the companion species to the eponymous superhero in the Marvel movie, Ant-Man (2015). [14] Although the film refers to the species as Paratrechina longicornis , the CGI-rendered ants and their behaviors in the movie arguably hold more resemblance to the Rasberry ...
The M. multispinosus is most known for its trait of attaching onto longhorn crazy ants. Once it has attached onto the ants pupa it begins to drain the ant of its haemolymph. The haemolymph is the roughly equivalent of a humans blood. It is the fluid that flows through the ant.
Myrmecophilus americanus is an ant cricket, a wingless cricket that is an obligate parasite of ants and lives in their nests.. It is found living in the nest of the longhorn crazy ant (Paratrechina longicornis) and is kleptoparasitic on it, feeding on food scraps brought back by the workers and encouraging them to regurgitate food.
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The species in known from Tanzania, Angola and Mozambique.Very little is known about the natural history of Paratrechina zanjensis; the 23 specimens collected in the Mkuju River region of the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania were all found in 48-hour pitfall trap samples while none were found in the 40 Winkler-extracted leaf litter samples collected during daytime along the same transects.
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Tonight, Jonathan Majors made his debut as host of SNL, touching on The Harder They Fall, an upcoming Ant-Man role and more in his opening monologue. As Majors noted, the former Western unveiled ...