Ants

Tiny Bugs Do Dirty Work For Meat-Eating Plants

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Plants, Carnivorous Plants, Video, Ecology, Insect Behavior, Biology, New Research, Ants, Insects, Symbiosis, Animals, Symbiotic Relationship, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 05/09/2012 05:32 PM EDT on LiveScience Carnivorous plants can have valuable allies in ants,...

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LOOK: Crazy Photos Of Ants

Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Andrey Pavlov Ants, Nature Photography, Video, Ants Photos, Ants Pictures, Ants, Slidewide, Exposure, Andrey Pavlov, Green News

Because we know you'll ask: According to The Telegraph, these ants are real, and yes, they're alive. Andrey Pavlov, a Moscow-based photographer, sp...

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WATCH: Army Ants In Creepy Suicide Ritual

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Emergence, Video, Complexity, Ant Suicide, Swarm Intelligence, Ant Death Spiral, Ants, Ant Mill, Ant Spiral, Science News

By now, you may know that lemmings don't really commit mass suicide. But did you know that ants sometimes do? In the video above, a few dozen army ant...

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13 Natural Defenses Against Ants

Posted 03.30.2012

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From Mother Nature Network's Kimi Harris: Little tiny ants have been spotted in our new home, and many people are suffering the same fate across th...

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WATCH: Ants' Dying Queen Mated With As Spider Eats Her Head-First

Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Prenolepis Nitens, Video, Ecology, Biology, Crab Spider, Dying Queen, Insects, Ants, Animals, Life Sciences, Insect Mating, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/24/2012 11:46 AM EDT on LiveScience We can't all be picky about our mates, and ants e...

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Why Ants Will Inherit The Earth

Cracked.com | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Ants, Video, Ant Supremacy, Ants Rule, Animals in the News, Weird Science, Ants All-Powerful, Weird News News

When the empires of man finally fall and the memory of our hubris has faded to dust, ants will still be here, running shit. Like they have been for mi...

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Hairy, Crazy Ants Invade From Texas To Miss.

AP | By JANET McCONNAUGHEY | Posted 12.01.2011

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By JANET McCONNAUGHEY, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS -- It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper's metal walls bu...

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Dancing Frogs And Nature Photography With Mark Moffett

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Extreme Exposure, Adventure, Nature, Mark Moffett, National Geographic, Annenberg Space for Photography, Environment, Ants, Tarantula, Smithsonian, Frogs, Animals, Video, Spiders, Harvard, Cambodia, Explorer, California, Asia, Arts News

Ecologist and explorer Mark Moffett was in Brazil trying to get a photograph of a frog dancing. Honest. He says no one had ever done it before. U...

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INTERNATIONAL ART: Peter Kogler's Creepy Crawlies On View In Vienna

contemporaryartdaily.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mezzanin Gallery, Austria, Peter Kogler, Mezzanin Vienna, Silkscreen Prints, Ants, Artists, Vienna Art Galleries, Vienna, Arts News

Artist: Peter Kogler Venue: Mezzanin, Vienna Date: September 15 -- October 30, 2010 Upon entering the gallery one is confronted with ants channel...

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The Empire of the Ants

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poison, Ants, Ant Poison, Evanston, Ant Infestations, Chicago News

In antediluvian Evanston, that is, before three weeks ago, a few confused ants would wander about the kitchen counter, lost on their way to ant conventions or curious about life beyond the baseboards.

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Heroic Ants Face Death Alone To Save Colony

BBC | Matt Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ants Death, Ants, Temnothorax Unifasciatus, Ant Colony, Ants Die Alone, Ant Nature, Green News

When ants of the species Temnothorax unifasciatus get sick, they abandon their nest, walking far away from their relatives to die alone. They perform...

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Vegetarian Spider Discovered: Bagheera Kiplingi Eats Mostly Plant Buds From Acacia Plants

A First | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Omnivorous Spider, Acacia, Ant Larvae, Mexico, Ants, Biology, New Spider, Vegetarian Spider, Bagheera Kiplingi, Plant Buds, Jumping Spider, Costa Rica, Green News

A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study says--making it the only known vegetarian out of some 40,000 sp...

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Ants Kill Bolivian Farmworker

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Ants, Killer Ants, Animals, Weird Animals, Bolivia, Santiago Ortiz, World News

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian police say that a 42-year-old man who fell asleep under an ant-infested tree has been killed by insect bites. Beni c...

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Super-Ant Taking Over Europe

LiveScience | Robert Roy BrittEditorial DirectorLiveScience.Com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Ants, Europe, Animals, Green News

An ant species that originated in the Black Sea region has invaded more than 100 areas across Europe and is moving north. Scientists say if it is not ...

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Four Organic Ways to Kill Ants

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ants, Pests, Household Hazardous Waste, Sustainable Mosquito Repellant, Green News

Before you embark on a killing spree, here are a couple tips for eliminating ants without killing the earth too.

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Ants Invade Houston, Eat Computers

AP | LINDA STEWART BALL | Posted 11.17.2011

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DALLAS — In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are i...

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