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Jul 2, 2024 · A Florida carpenter ant treats a wound on an amputated nest mate’s leg. A researcher said such care highlights how the colony values individuals. Dany Buffat. They began tracking the amputees’...
Jul 2, 2024 · Some ants chomp off the infected limbs of nestmates to boost their chances of survival, making them the only recorded non-human animals to perform amputations to save another’s life. We already...
6 days ago · Ninety percent of the isolated ants died, whereas 75% of those that returned to the nest survived. The difference in the tactics employed by bystander ants may lie in the insects’ physiology. High-resolution microscopy revealed that the Florida carpenter ant’s femur has several muscles that impede circulation of hemolymph (the insect ...
1 day ago · Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.
Jun 21, 2024 · Strategically, ants infected by fungi of the species complex O. unilateralis s.l., such as Camponotus, Colobopsis, Dinomyrmex, and Polyrhachis, climb bushes (summit behavior) and lock their jaws on plant tissue (biting behavior) just before dying from the fungus infection (Hughes et al. 2011 ).
6 days ago · Ants with upper-leg injuries that were isolated died about 60 percent of the time, while ants that received surgeries, either from the researchers or from fellow ants, almost always lived ...
2 days ago · worker ants. A swarm of ants cooperating to collectively move a dead insect on the forest floor. Some ant species are hunters and scavengers. Bullet ants, for example, forage for live spiders, frogs, and insects, including grasshoppers, beetles, and katydids, or their carcasses.
