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In ants, tandem running is used for social learning, by which one ant leads another native ant from the nest to the food source it has found. Tandem running is also used to find and choose better, new nest sites to which the colony can emigrate. [ 1 ]
Cataglyphis [2] is a genus of ant, desert ants, in the subfamily Formicinae. Its most famous species is C. bicolor , the Sahara Desert ant , which runs on hot sand to find insects that died of heat exhaustion, and can, like other several other Cataglyphis species, sustain body temperatures up to 50°C. [ 3 ]
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.
For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns out that ants grow their own food too. Have you ever seen a trail of ...
Ants are very interesting insects with very peculiar behaviors. Scientists have been studying them to understand how they live, interact and spend their time in colonies but new, puzzling things ...
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T. sessile is a small ant that ranges in color from brown to black, and varies in length from 1 ⁄ 16 to 1 ⁄ 8 inches (1.5–3.2 mm). When crushed, these ants leave a smell which leads to their nickname "stink ant".
Trap-jaw ants of this genus have the second-fastest moving predatory appendages within the animal kingdom, [2] after the dracula ant (Mystrium camillae). [8] One study of Odontomachus bauri recorded peak speeds between 126 and 230 km/h (78 and 143 mph), with the jaws closing within just 130 microseconds on average.