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2. Army ant - Wikipedia

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   The name army ant (or legionary ant or marabunta [1]) ... The ants move during the day, capturing insects, spiders, and small vertebrates to feed their brood.

3. Eciton burchellii - Wikipedia

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   Eciton burchellii is a species of New World army ant in the genus Eciton. This species performs expansive, organized swarm raids that give it the informal name, Eciton army ant. [2] This species displays a high degree of worker polymorphism. Sterile workers are of four discrete size-castes: minors, medias, porters (sub-majors), and soldiers ...

4. Eciton - Wikipedia

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   There are ant-mimicking staphylinid beetles, shaped like the ants they follow, that run with the swarm, some of them preying on stragglers or other insects injured or flushed by army-ant activity, though most of these are inquilines in the ant nest; these and other insects sometimes spend their entire lives hidden in Eciton colonies, often ...

5. Bivouac (ants) - Wikipedia

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   Army ant bivouac. A bivouac is an organic structure formed by migratory driver ant and army ant colonies, such as the species Eciton burchellii.A nest is constructed out of the living ant workers' own bodies to protect the queen and larvae, and is later deconstructed as the ants move on.

6. Nymphister kronaueri - Wikipedia

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   Army ant Eciton mexicanum workers with N. kronaueri attached between the ants’ petiole and postpetiole.. N. kronaueri is noted for its unusual mechanism of phoretic transport - it uses its mouthparts (the mandibles) to attach itself to the waist (between the petiole and postpetiole) of medium sized ant workers of the species Eciton mexicanum.

7. Ant mill - Wikipedia

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   An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a "death spiral" because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion. It has been reproduced in ...