Research carried out at Victoria University of Wellington shows that exposure to some commonly used pesticides makes an invasive ant species more aggressive and more likely to survive conflict with a native ant species.
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2013
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Invasive "crazy ants" are displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern United States, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. It's the latest in a history of ant invasions from the southern ...
Ecology
May 16, 2013
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Scientists have successfully replicated the behaviour of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots, as reported in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.
Robotics
Mar 28, 2013
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that one of the most aggressive invasive ant species in the United States – the Argentine ant – appears to have met its match in the Asian needle ant. Specifically, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows populations of an invasive species of ants frequently collapse without human involvement, potentially saving millions of dollars on control and eradication.
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Argentine ants are taking over the world – or at least the nice temperate parts. They've spread into Mediterranean and subtropical climates across the globe in sugar shipments from Argentina, and no ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ants are able to connect multiple sites in the shortest possible way, and in doing so, create efficient transport networks, according to a University of Sydney study published in the Journal of the Royal ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have demonstrated that normally friendly ants can turn against each other by exploiting the chemical cues they use to distinguish ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2009
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"Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania" is the latest film in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2023
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Argentine ants are one of the most successful invasive species in the world. Scientist from University of Oulu and University of Girona, Spain, have previously identified viruses from the invasive Argentine ants of the Mediterranean ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2020
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