Taking several of the ants back to the lab and opening them up, Yanoviak discovered that the red abdomen was full of hundreds of nematode eggs.
He wanted to delve deeper, take ants back to the lab, do sequencing, transgenics, knockouts, molecular work, the whole fruit fly buffet.
Dr. Fisher brought the ants back just a week ago, but experts are already excited, because the find may resolve many of the mysteries surrounding Adetomyrma.
These stories about travelers sitting around the campfire and then having ghosts eat their kidneys when they fall asleep and putting green ants back inside their bodies.
"When you talk to folks who live in the invaded areas, they tell you they want their fire ants back," said Ed LeBrun, a researcher at the University of Texas' invasive species research program.
Moreover, chemical marking of the substrate by workers attracts ants back to the original spot where they were aggregated, even after a perturbation [67].
Although PI guides ants back to a learned feeder, the ants respond to food odours independently of whether or not they are close to the learned feeding site.
Hold a flashlight and follow the ants back to their nests.
Adam Ant Friend or Foe To celebrate the welcome news that Ant is back on stage and dressed as a pirate, too, I've gone back to his first solo album, where the double drumming – never louder – was joined by a wall of brass.
When an ant comes back, it has to be one of their nest mates.
