Ants play.

Nigel Franks, a well known ant researcher once wrote that the solitary army ant is behaviorally one of the least sophisticated animals imaginable.

Some of the ants classified as pests include the pavement ant, yellow crazy ant, sugar ants, the Pharaoh ant, carpenter ants, Argentine ant, odorous house ants, red imported fire ant, and European fire ant.

Four species of ants have been found on Sebuku, fewer than Sebesi and Krakatoa.

Ants everywhere.

Bloody ants!

Throughout the animal kingdom, for example ants. Ants play.

Now ants most ants, including these, don't see very well.

In ant hills.

Redant hills.

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

The caterpillar is then taken into the ant nest where it feeds on the ant larvae.

Deborah Gordon digs ants

I noticed there was some ants running around.

And then I sat down and all the ants came along.

Have you seen all the ants?

Social parasites take advantage of interactions between members of social organisms such as ants or termites.

Ants never make more ants colonies make more colonies.

A great example to begin with is ants.

Ants vary in colour most ants are red or black, but a few species are green and some tropical species have a metallic lustre.

Some arthropod species spend part of their lives within ant nests, either preying on ants, their larvae, and eggs, consuming the food stores of the ants, or avoiding predators.

And this is true of most ants that the ants you see walking around don't do much eating.

He's just got you staked out on an ant hill, that's all a dry ant hill.

He tried to get rid of the ants.

Actually you take any object coated with fig juice, and the ants will carry it back to the nest.

The Babylonians called them Zerbabu.

People are running around like ants.

These ants are driving me crazy.

We have hundreds of different varieties of ants in this country.

Most ants are predatory and some prey on and obtain food from other social insects including other ants.

So, the ants in the older colony that seem to be more stable are not any older than the ants in the younger colony.

Myrmecophilous (ant loving) caterpillars of the butterfly family Lycaenidae (e.g., blues, coppers, or hairstreaks) are herded by the ants, led to feeding areas in the daytime, and brought inside the ants' nest at night.

Other caterpillars have evolved from ant loving to ant eating these myrmecophagous caterpillars secrete a pheromone that makes the ants act as if the caterpillar is one of their own larvae.

Why do we study ants? Well, it's interesting.

There are about 10,000 species of ants.

A lot of people talk about ants.

Oh, yes, I saw quite a few ants this afternoon.

Ants who don't even know what I'm talking about. How's that?

And male ants live their life like this, with only one copy of every gene, much like a walking sex cell.

But in a small colony, it's likely to meet fewer foragers, just because there are fewer other foragers there to meet.

Some species specialise in preying on termites ( Megaponera and Termitopone ) while a few Cerapachyinae prey on other ants.

But the idea is that the ants are in there, and each ant is experiencing a certain flow of ants past it a stream of contacts with other ants.

They are looking at how ants and bees find their food and their flowers in the most effective way as a whole hive.

Till they reached the Valley of Naml . Said the lady of Naml O Naml , go into your dwellings lest Solomon and his hordes should crush you unawares .

Until when they came to the valley of the ants , a she ant exclaimed , O ants , enter your houses may not Sulaiman and his armies crush you , unknowingly .