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20 Easy Methods for Getting Rid of Ants Outside Naturally
Ants pose health risks with their bites and stings too ... With the exception of leaf-cutter ants, they also rarely cause any ...
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Zooming in on Ants
Biologist and videographer Mark Moffett's footage of ants gets up close and personal with the leaf-cutter species of the insect Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Partners Terms ...
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Opportunistic predation by leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a wounded Baird’s tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) in Mexico
O’Donnell S, Garcia CJM, Beard J, Chiwocha T, Lewis D, Liu C, Phillips H, Williams T. 2010. Leaf cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) harvest baits offering sodium chloride rewards. Insectes Sociaux 57: ...
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Ants Select Better Microbes
Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom have found that leaf-cutter ants have a simple system to build up healthful microbes on their exoskeletons—a system the researchers ...
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A marvel of ants
When Bence first tried to photograph leaf-cutter ants in action, he thought it was going to be easy ... behaviour of chiggers (skin-digesting mite larvae), which covered him in bites. Bence is a ...