Sentence examples for aggressive ants from inspiring English sources
Codes for aggression scoring methods are as follows: a = aggression index, b = presence of aggression, c = percentage rejected by guards, d = percentage rejected, e = aggression towards dead workers, f = % aggression in 1 to 1 assays, g = # attacks per trial, h = time based aggression scale, I = aggressive vs. non aggressive interactions, m = number of aggressive ants.
Several species of South American and African acacia tree both house and feed aggressive ants.
Eisner researchers have studied puddling moths with a mania for salt, kamikaze ants, femme fatale fireflies, the zigzag architecture of spider webs, and lacewing larvae that feast freely on woolly aphids normally protected by aggressive ants, outwitting the ant shepherds by covering themselves in tufts of fluff plucked from the aphids' backs — a real-life case of a wolf in sheep's clothing.
In both places, the spiders were adept at evading the aggressive ants whose food they swiped.
Bagheera kiplingi dodges throngs of aggressive ants to feast on the leaf-tip morsels of acacia shrubs, making it the first mostly vegetarian spider known to science.
For example, aggressive ants can exclude hermit crabs from carrion, geckos from fruits, or birds from trees.
SCIENCE TIMES A report in the Observatory column on Tuesday about aggressive ant species in the United States misstated part of the name of an organization where Eleanor Spicer Rice is a senior science editor.
The frequency of aggressive acts by ants was the highest with an ant/wasp ratio of between 50 and 200, but tended to be lower both below and above these values (Fig. 1B).
In Europe, aggressive Argentine ants have been building mega-colonies, and they are out-competing local ant populations, which has sent ripples through the ecosystem.
On a recent five-hour trek through the Congo to see the silverback gorillas, those bug-resistant clothes saved me from the jaws of some aggressive Congolese ants.
Southern toads recognise and avoid an aggressive invasive ant species in the US.
