Sentence examples for predatory ants from inspiring English sources

The secret ingredient is a compound known as 2-pyrrolidinone, which is also made by gypsy-moth caterpillars to ward off predatory ants.

Protein and sugar baits are common and reproducible means of assessing overall ant diversity at a site [48] and we expected tuna and jam to attract potential seed predators as well as potential dispersers, which are often generalist or even predatory ants [47], [49].

These are predatory ants.

Biological controls, the use of a pest's enemies against it, are old: centuries ago, the Chinese built bridges between trees so predatory ants could find and destroy aphids.

Hundreds years ago, predatory ants (Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius) were used to manage pests by Chinese citrus growers.

The "encounter risk" with predatory ants was also examined using a mathematical model considering the increased detectability of the predator due to enhanced size of the prey unit.

Their members dwell on the island of Okinawa and they are members of a species of predatory ant called Cerapachys biroi.This population of C. biroi has no queens and no males, and every member is equal in every respect.

"A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendent of the very first ants to evolve.

Some termites, including Nasutitermes corniger, form associations with certain ant species to keep away predatory ant species.

By providing the ants the fuel with which to patrol, the plants' foliage is protected through the ants' predatory and territorial defense activities [3].

For example, cane toads in Australia do not recognize large predatory local ants as dangerous and are more vulnerable to ant attack than are native frogs; thus, we might be able to exploit the ants' selective predation to help control toad numbers (Ward-Fear et al. 2010).