Time to Play: Identify the Blurry Ant
Category: ants
Can you identify the colorful, blurry ant in these photos? If so, you might win a prize.
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Welcome Our New Ant Overlords!
Category: ants
Wait, you're from Darien? Do you know George Cabbott? Yeah, he went to Bucknell. He's a good guy. Hey, what about Besty Rosen?...Hahaha, yeah I wasn't going to say it, but she IS a total slut!
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How to Kill Fire Ants: Step 1, Zombifiy. Step 2, Explode Heads.
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It seems like we've been covering zombie bugs a lot lately. The newest story comes from Texas, where researchers are trying out a new form of pest control on invasive fire ants: using parasitic flies to lay eggs in the ants brains, zombify them, and then explode their heads with emerging larvae. Seems reasonable.
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Our New Meat Ant Overlords...
Category: toad
In the 1930s, Australian ecologists shortsightedly introduced the Cane Toad, a species indigenous to South America, to their isolated continent to eat agricultural pests. This famously proved to be a complete disaster with the toxic toads running rampant and native...
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Ants Are from Mars, Scientists Are from Uranus
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Subterranean...blind...predatory...smokin' hot AILF! These are all adjectives that you could use to describe a newly discovered ant from the Amazon rainforest.
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Ants Versus Termites
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A particularly close-up and violent ant versus termite video.
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Parasites Turn Ants into Berries
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Just when Andrew and I decided once and for all that ants couldn't get any more delicious looking, along comes a new parasitic roundworm and turns our whole world on its head. The newly discovered nematode enters the ants when they eat bird droppings and causes their abdomen to resemble ripe, tasty berries. This in turn draws the attention to birds who love both berries and ants. The birds eat the ants, crap out the parasites, and the whole thing starts over again. Now we know what Elton John was talking about in that song in the Lion King!
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The Genesis II Spacecraft & Its Intrepid Arthronauts
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Late last month the Genesis II Pathfinder spacecraft was delivered into orbit and along with it went a bold group of unwitting arthropods. Bigelow Aerospace was founded in 1999 with the vision of creating orbital hotels for "space tourists." In...
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Birds Rely on Army-Ants for Dinner
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Army-ants storm through the jungles of Panama a million strong devouring any and every living creature in their path. Some clever birds have found a way to capitalize on the mayhem: Stay close to the ants and eat the leaping,...
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Spectacular Ant Nest Molds
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Researchers in Florida poured a liquid plaster-metal mixture into the nests of the Florida harvester ant. The resulting casts display astonishing intricacy and depth. One interesting discovery was that the top heavy nature of the chambers reflects age distribution within...
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