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Top: An ant in Mozambique Bottom: An ant-mimicking spider, Myrmarachne Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms; it has evolved over 70 times. Ants are abundant all over the world, and potential predators that rely on vision to identify their prey, such as birds and wasps, normally avoid them, because they are either unpalatable or aggressive.
Ants engage in associations with other honeydew-producing hemipterans, such as scale insects , mealybugs (Pseudococcidae), and treehoppers (Membracidae), and most of these interaction are facultative and opportunistic with some cases of obligate associations, such as hemipterans that are inquiline, meaning they can only survive inside ant nests ...
Myrmecology (/ m ɜːr m ɪ ˈ k ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek: μύρμηξ, myrmex, "ant" and λόγος, logos, "study") is a branch of entomology focusing on the study of ants. Ants continue to be a model of choice for the study of questions on the evolution of social systems because of their complex and varied forms of social organization .
Ants or their pupae are used as starters for yogurt making in parts of Bulgaria and Turkey. [214] In his First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir notes that the Digger Indians of California ate the tickling, acid gasters of the large jet-black carpenter ants. The Mexican Indians eat the repletes, or living honey-pots, of the honey ant ...
Myrmecotrophy, meaning "ant-fed," is the ability of plants to absorb nutrients from debris piles left by ant nests or, in the case of Nepenthes bicalcarata, from ant egesta. [13] The tropical tree Cecropia peltata obtains 98% of its nitrogen from the waste deposited by its ant counterparts.
The flight of ants seen in Boston on Monday is called a nuptial flight, according to Emily Stolarski of Mass Wildlife, an event during the breeding period where winged females and males leave ...
It is important to note that while some tramp species are invasive, the majority of them are not. [8] Some can exist alongside native species without competing with them, simply occupying unfilled niches , such as is the case with some populations of Tapinoma melanocephalum and Monomorium pharaonic , who rarely interfere with native species ...
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