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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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The stridulatory organ that velvet ants possess produces an audible squeaking when the abdomen is contracted. [15] This mechanism is an auditory cue warning predators that are about to attack to stay away. In one experiment, every time a shrew got within 1 meter of a velvet ant, the velvet ant would begin stridulating. [12]
Missouri Day (Third Wednesday in October) 1915 [18] Horse: Missouri Fox Trotter Equus ferus caballus: 2002 [1] [19] Insect: Honeybee Apis mellifera: 1985 [1] [20] Invertebrate: Crayfish: 2007 [1] [21] Mineral: Galena: 1967 [1] [22] Motto: Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto (Latin: "Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.") 1822 [23 ...
Atta leafcutter ants are relatively large, rusty red or brown in colour, and have a spiny body and long legs. The three main castes within a nest are the queen, worker, and soldier. [ 2 ] Only the queens and males have wings (alate), and these ants are also known as reproductives or swarmers.
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 ...
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]
Leafcutter ants are any of at least 55 species [1] [2] [3] of leaf-chewing ants belonging to the three genera Atta, Acromyrmex, and Amoimyrmex, within the tribe Attini. [4] These species of tropical, fungus-growing ants are all endemic to South and Central America, Mexico, and parts of the southern United States. [5]