Ant, the Glossary
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.[1]
Table of Contents
527 relations: A Bug's Life, A Tramp Abroad, Aardvark, Abdomen, Absolute dating, Acetophenone, Acromyrmex, Acta Ethologica, Aculeata, Adaptation, Adaptive radiation, Adetomyrma venatrix, Aenictus, Aesop, Africa, Agaricaceae, Agelaia multipicta, Agroecomyrmecinae, Air current, Alate, Albian, Allomerus decemarticulatus, Amblyoponinae, Anaerobic respiration, Anatomical terms of location, Ancient Greek, Aneuretinae, Animal, Anochetus, Anomotaenia brevis, Ant, Ant colony, Ant colony optimization algorithms, Ant eggs, Ant follower, Ant mill, Ant mimicry, Ant robotics, Ant supercolony, Ant venom, Ant-Man, Antarctica, Ant–fungus mutualism, Antbird, Anteater, Antenna (biology), Anthropomorphism, Anting (behavior), Antivenom, Ants of medical importance, ... Expand index (477 more) »
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A Bug's Life
A Bug's Life is a 1998 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
A Tramp Abroad
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.
Aardvark
Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammals native to Africa.
See Ant and Aardvark
Abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
See Ant and Abdomen
Absolute dating
Absolute dating is the process of determining an age on a specified chronology in archaeology and geology.
Acetophenone
Acetophenone is the organic compound with the formula C6H5C(O)CH3.
Acromyrmex
Acromyrmex is a genus of New World ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Acta Ethologica
acta ethologica is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1998.
Aculeata
Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps.
See Ant and Aculeata
Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
Adaptive radiation
In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, alters biotic interactions or opens new environmental niches.
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Adetomyrma venatrix
Adetomyrma venatrix, more commonly known as the Dracula ant, so named because of its grisly feeding habits of drinking the blood of its young, is an endangered species of ants endemic to Madagascar.
See Ant and Adetomyrma venatrix
Aenictus
Aenictus is a large army ant genus distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics.
See Ant and Aenictus
Aesop
Aesop (or;,; formerly rendered as Æsop) is an almost certainly legendary Greek fabulist and storyteller, said to have lived c. 620–564 BCE, and credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
See Ant and Africa
Agaricaceae
The Agaricaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi and include the genus Agaricus, as well as basidiomycetes previously classified in the families Tulostomataceae, Lepiotaceae, and Lycoperdaceae.
Agelaia multipicta
Agelaia multipicta is a swarm-founding, highly eusocial wasp that lives in Mexico, Argentina, Trinidad and southern Brazil.
See Ant and Agelaia multipicta
Agroecomyrmecinae
Agroecomyrmecinae is a subfamily of ants containing two extant and two fossil genera. Ant and Agroecomyrmecinae are ants.
Air current
In meteorology, air currents are concentrated areas of winds.
Alate
Alate (Latin ālātus, from āla (“wing”)) is an adjective and noun used in entomology and botany to refer to something that has wings or winglike structures.
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Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Allomerus decemarticulatus
Allomerus decemarticulatus is an Amazonian ant species found in the tropics of South America.
See Ant and Allomerus decemarticulatus
Amblyoponinae
Amblyoponinae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing 13 extant genera and one extinct genus. Ant and Amblyoponinae are ants.
Anaerobic respiration
Anaerobic respiration is respiration using electron acceptors other than molecular oxygen (O2).
See Ant and Anaerobic respiration
Anatomical terms of location
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.
See Ant and Anatomical terms of location
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Aneuretinae
Aneuretinae is a subfamily of ants consisting of a single extant species, Aneuretus simoni (Sri Lankan relict ant), and 9 fossil species. Ant and Aneuretinae are ants.
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Anochetus
Anochetus is a genus of small, carnivorous ants found in the tropics and subtropics throughout the world.
Anomotaenia brevis
Anomotaenia brevis is a tapeworm which has been found to be one of many parasite species able to manipulate their host's behavior.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ant and ant are ants, extant Albian first appearances, insects in culture and symbiosis.
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Ant colony
An ant colony is a population of ants, typically from a single species, capable of maintaining their complete lifecycle. Ant and ant colony are ants.
Ant colony optimization algorithms
In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs.
See Ant and Ant colony optimization algorithms
Ant eggs
Ant eggs (ไข่มดเเดง) refer to both the eggs and pupae of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina, known in Thailand as red ants) eaten in several countries across Southeast Asia, especially Laos and Northeastern Thailand (Isan).
See Ant and Ant eggs
Ant follower
Ant followers are birds that feed by following swarms of army ants and take prey flushed by those ants. Ant and ant follower are ants.
Ant mill
An ant mill An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. Ant and ant mill are ants.
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Ant mimicry
Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms; it has evolved over 70 times. Ant and ant mimicry are ants.
Ant robotics
Ant robotics is a special case of swarm robotics.
Ant supercolony
An ant supercolony is an exceptionally large ant colony, consisting of a high number of spatially separated but socially connected nests of a single ant species (meaning that the colony is polydomous), spread over a large area without territorial borders. Ant and ant supercolony are ants.
Ant venom
Ant venom is any of, or a mixture of, irritants and toxins inflicted by ants. Ant and ant venom are ants.
Ant-Man
Ant-Man is the name of several superheroes appearing in books published by Marvel Comics.
See Ant and Ant-Man
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Ant–fungus mutualism
Ant–fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen between certain ant and fungal species, in which ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as a food source. Ant and Ant–fungus mutualism are ants.
See Ant and Ant–fungus mutualism
Antbird
The antbirds are a large passerine bird family, Thamnophilidae, found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America, from Mexico to Argentina.
See Ant and Antbird
Anteater
Anteaters are the four extant mammal species in the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue"), commonly known for eating ants and termites.
See Ant and Anteater
Antenna (biology)
Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.
Anting (behavior)
Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.
Antivenom
Antivenom, also known as antivenin, venom antiserum, and antivenom immunoglobulin, is a specific treatment for envenomation.
Ants of medical importance
Most ants are capable of biting, stinging, and spraying irritant chemicals. Ant and ants of medical importance are ants.
See Ant and Ants of medical importance
Antz
Antz is a 1998 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation (as its debut film) and Pacific Data Images, and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.
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Aphid
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Ant and Aphid are insects in culture.
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Apoidea
The superfamily Apoidea is a major group within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally recognized lineages, the "sphecoid" wasps, and the bees.
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Apomorphy and synapomorphy
In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy).
See Ant and Apomorphy and synapomorphy
Apomyrma
Apomyrma stygia is a species of ant found in West Africa, first described in 1970.
See Ant and Apomyrma
Appendage
An appendage (or outgrowth) is an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism's or microorganism's body.
Argentine ant
The Argentine ant (Linepithema humile, formerly Iridomyrmex humilis) is an ant native to northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and southern Brazil.
Army ant
The name army ant (or legionary ant or marabunta) is applied to over 200 ant species in different lineages. Ant and army ant are ants.
See Ant and Army ant
Arthropod leg
The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Atom Ant
Atom Ant is a cartoon ant and superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965.
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Atta (ant)
Atta is a genus of New World ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Atta cephalotes
Atta cephalotes is a species of leafcutter ant in the tribe Attini (the fungus-growing ants).
Atta laevigata
Atta laevigata (Smith, 1858) is one of about a dozen species of leafcutter ants in the genus Atta, found from Venezuela and south to Paraguay.
Auguste Forel
Auguste-Henri Forel (1 September 1848 – 27 July 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australian Journal of Zoology
The Australian Journal of Zoology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing.
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Autothysis
Autothysis (from the Greek roots autos- αὐτός "self" and thysia θυσία "sacrifice") or suicidal altruism is the process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin.
Baltic amber
Baltic amber or succinite Is amber from the Baltic region, home of its largest known deposits.
Banded sugar ant
The banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus), also known as the sugar ant, is a species of ant native to Australia.
Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Batesian mimicry
Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both.
Bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.
See Ant and Bee
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering quantitative, empirical, and theoretical studies in the field of analysis of animal behavior at the levels of the individual, population, and community.
See Ant and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Beltian body
A Beltian body is a detachable tip found on the pinnules of some species of Acacia and closely related genera.
Bengalia
Bengalia is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae with one authority considering the genus to belong to a separate family Bengaliidae.
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Bernard Werber
Bernard Werber (born 18 September 1961 in Toulouse) is a French science fiction writer, active since the 1990s.
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
Bioindicator
A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment.
Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms. Ant and Biological pest control are insects in culture.
See Ant and Biological pest control
Biomass (ecology)
Biomass is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time.
Biomimetics
Biomimetics or biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.
Bivouac (ants)
A bivouac is an organic structure formed by migratory driver ant and army ant colonies, such as the species Eciton burchellii.
Black carpenter ant
The black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) is one of the largest and most common species of carpenter ant native to the central and eastern United States as well as eastern Canada.
See Ant and Black carpenter ant
Blattodea
Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites.
Blood vessel
Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body.
Book of Proverbs
The Book of Proverbs (מִשְלֵי,; Παροιμίαι; Liber Proverbiorum, "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students later appearing in the Christian Old Testament.
Brown bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.
Brownimecia
Brownimecia is an extinct genus of ants, the only genus in the tribe Brownimeciini and subfamily Brownimeciinae of the Formicidae.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Calliphoridae
The Calliphoridae (commonly known as blow flies, blow-flies, carrion flies, bluebottles, or greenbottles) are a family of insects in the order Diptera, with almost 1,900 known species.
Camelomecia
Camelomecia is an extinct genus of stem-group ants not placed into any Formicidae subfamily and probably not into Formicidae itself.
Camponotus floridanus
Camponotus floridanus, or Florida carpenter ant, is a species of ant in the genus Camponotus.
See Ant and Camponotus floridanus
Camponotus maculatus
Camponotus maculatus is a species of carpenter ant (genus Camponotus).
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Canadian Journal of Zoology
The Canadian Journal of Zoology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers zoology.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
Cardiocondyla elegans
Cardiocondyla elegans is an ant species in the genus Cardiocondyla found in the Mediterranean region.
See Ant and Cardiocondyla elegans
Carebara diversa
Carebara diversa is a species of marauder ant widely distributed throughout Asia.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Carpenter ant
Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers) indigenous to many forested parts of the world.
Caste
A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.
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Cataglyphis
Cataglyphis is a genus of ant, desert ants, in the subfamily Formicinae.
Catapult
A catapult is a ballistic device used to launch a projectile a great distance without the aid of gunpowder or other propellants – particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines.
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Caterpillar
Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
Caviar
Caviar (also known as caviare, originally from the egg-bearing) is a food consisting of salt-cured roe of the family Acipenseridae.
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Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering cellular and molecular life sciences.
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Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
Cephalotes atratus
Cephalotes atratus is a species of arboreal ant in the genus Cephalotes, a genus characterized by its odd shaped head.
See Ant and Cephalotes atratus
Chelae
A chelaalso called a claw, nipper, or pinceris a pincer-shaped organ at the end of certain limbs of some arthropods.
See Ant and Chelae
Chrysidoidea
The superfamily Chrysidoidea is a very large cosmopolitan group, all of which are parasitoids or cleptoparasites of other insects.
Chrysobalanaceae
Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with a centre of diversity in the Amazon.
Chyphotidae
The Chyphotidae are a family of wasps with wingless females similar to the Mutillidae, differing most visibly in the presence, in females, of a suture separating the pronotum from the mesonotum.
Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.
See Ant and Citrus
Civilization
A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).
Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
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Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
Cockroach
Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests. The cockroaches are an ancient group, with their ancestors, known as "roachoids", originating during the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago. Ant and cockroach are insects in culture.
Coevolution
In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection.
Colobopsis anderseni
Colobopsis anderseni, synonym Camponotus anderseni, is a species of mangrove ant found in northern Australia.
See Ant and Colobopsis anderseni
Colobopsis saundersi
Colobopsis saundersi (synonym Camponotus saundersi), also called the Malaysian exploding ant, is a species of ant found in Malaysia and Brunei, belonging to the genus Colobopsis.
See Ant and Colobopsis saundersi
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
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Colonisation (biology)
Colonisation or colonization is the spread and development of an organism in a new area or habitat.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Commensalism
Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed. Ant and Commensalism are symbiosis.
Compound eye
A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.
Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
See Ant and Convergent evolution
Cordyceps
Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes about 600 worldwide species.
Cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and environmental conditions, though this is not always so.
See Ant and Cosmopolitan distribution
Crematogaster
Crematogaster is an ecologically diverse genus of ants found worldwide, which are characterised by a distinctive heart-shaped gaster (abdomen), which gives them one of their common names, the Saint Valentine ant.
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution
The Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution (abbreviated KTR), also known as the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution (ATR) by authors who consider it to have lasted into the Palaeogene, describes the intense floral diversification of flowering plants (angiosperms) and the coevolution of pollinating insects, as well as the subsequent faunal radiation of frugivorous, nectarivorous and insectivorous avians, mammals, lissamphibians, squamate reptiles and web-spinning spiders during the Middle to Late Cretaceous, from around 125 Mya to 80 Mya.
See Ant and Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution
Cricket (insect)
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. Ant and cricket (insect) are insects in culture.
Crimean Gothic
Crimean Gothic was a Germanic, probably East Germanic, language spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea until the late 18th century.
Crop (anatomy)
The crop (also the croup, the craw, the ingluvies, and the sublingual pouch) is a thin-walled, expanded portion of the alimentary tract, which is used for the storage of food before digestion.
Crown group
In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor.
Daceton
Daceton is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
See Ant and Daceton
Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars is a science fiction turn-based strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios and published by Accolade, released on February 23, 1998 as a sequel to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
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Dendrobates
Dendrobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America.
Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.
Devil's garden
In myrmecology and forest ecology, a devil's garden (Kichwa: Supay chakraFrederickson, M. E., & Gordon, D. (2007). The devil to pay: the cost of mutualism with Myrmelachista schumanni ants in 'devil's gardens' is increased herbivory on Duroia hirsuta trees. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274 (1613): 1117-23.David P. Ant and devil's garden are symbiosis.
Diapause
In animal dormancy, diapause is the delay in development in response to regular and recurring periods of adverse environmental conditions.
See Ant and Diapause
Dinoponera
Dinoponera is a strictly South American genus of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae, commonly called tocandiras or giant Amazonian ants.
Division of labour
The division of labour is the separation of the tasks in any economic system or organisation so that participants may specialise (specialisation).
See Ant and Division of labour
Dolichoderinae
Dolichoderinae is a subfamily of ants, which includes species such as the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), the erratic ant, the odorous house ant, and the cone ant. Ant and Dolichoderinae are ants.
Dolichodial
Dolichodial is a natural chemical compound with two aldehyde groups, which belongs to the group of iridoids.
Dominican amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree Hymenaea protera.
Dorylinae
Dorylinae is an ant subfamily, with distributions in both the Old World and New World. Ant and Dorylinae are ants.
Dorylus
Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is a large genus of army ants found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to southern Africa and tropical Asia.
See Ant and Dorylus
Dufour's gland
Dufour's gland is an abdominal gland of certain insects, part of the anatomy of the ovipositor or sting apparatus in female members of Apocrita.
Duroia
Duroia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.
See Ant and Duroia
Duroia hirsuta
Duroia hirsuta is a myrmecophyte tree species from the Amazon Forest.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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Echidna
Echidnas, sometimes known as spiny anteaters, are quill-covered monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae, living in Australia and New Guinea.
See Ant and Echidna
Eciton burchellii
Eciton burchellii is a species of New World army ant in the genus Eciton.
Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.
Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Ectatomminae
Ectatomminae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing four extant and three extinct genera in two tribes. Ant and Ectatomminae are ants.
Ectosymbiosis
Ectosymbiosis is a form of symbiotic behavior in which an organism lives on the body surface of another organism (the host), including internal surfaces such as the lining of the digestive tube and the ducts of glands. Ant and Ectosymbiosis are symbiosis.
Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
See Ant and Egg
Elaiosome
Elaiosomes (ἔλαιον élaion "oil" + σόμα sóma "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species.
Electric ant
The little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata), also known as the electric ant, is a small (approx long), light to golden brown (ginger) social ant native to Central and South America, now spread to parts of Africa (including Gabon and Cameroon), Taiwan, North America, Puerto Rico, Israel, Cuba, St. Croix and six Pacific Island groups (including the Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands) plus north-eastern Australia (Cairns).
Empire of the Ants
"The Empire of the Ants" is a 1905 short story by H. G. Wells about the littleness of humanity and the tenuousness of the dominion Homo sapiens enjoys on Earth.
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Empire of the Ants (film)
Empire of the Ants is a 1977 science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Bert I. Gordon.
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.
Endosymbiont
An endosymbiont or endobiont is an organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism. Ant and endosymbiont are symbiosis.
Entomological Society of America
The Entomological Society of America (ESA) was founded in 1889 and today has more than 7,000 members, including educators, extension personnel, consultants, students, researchers, and scientists from agricultural departments, health agencies, private industries, colleges and universities, and state and federal governments.
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Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.
Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
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Epiphyte
An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.
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Ergatoid
An ergatoid (from Greek ergat-, "worker" + -oid, "like") is a permanently wingless reproductive adult ant or termite. Ant and ergatoid are ants.
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Escamol
Escamoles (azcamolli, from azcatl 'ant' and molli 'puree'), known colloquially as Mexican caviar or insect caviar, are the edible larvae and pupae of ants of the species Liometopum apiculatum and L. occidentale var. Ant and Escamol are ants.
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Ethnohistory (journal)
Ethnohistory is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1954 and published quarterly by Duke University Press on behalf of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
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Eugenics
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.
Evolutionarily stable strategy
An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) that is impermeable when adopted by a population in adaptation to a specific environment, that is to say it cannot be displaced by an alternative strategy (or set of strategies) which may be novel or initially rare.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
Ferdy the Ant (TV series)
Ferdy the Ant (also simply referred to as Ferdy and Ferda) is a 1984 German-British children's animated television series based on the Ferda Mravenec series of picture books by Czech author Ondřej Sekora.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Fire ant
Fire ants are several species of ants in the genus Solenopsis, which includes over 200 species.
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Forage
Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.
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Forelius pusillus
Forelius pusillus is a species of ant in the genus Forelius.
Formic acid
Formic acid, systematically named methanoic acid, is the simplest carboxylic acid, and has the chemical formula HCOOH and structure.
Formica polyctena
Formica polyctena is a species of European red wood ant in the genus Formica and large family Formicidae.
Formica rufa
Formica rufa, also known as the red wood ant, southern wood ant, or horse ant, is a boreal member of the ''Formica rufa'' group of ants, and is the type species for that group, being described already by Linnaeus.
Formicarium
A formicarium (formicaria or formicariums) or ant farm is a vivarium which is designed primarily for the study of ant colonies and how ants behave and for the enjoyment of ants as pets.
Formiciinae
Formiciinae is an extinct subfamily of ants known from Eocene deposits in Europe and North America. Ant and Formiciinae are ants.
Formicinae
The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development. Ant and Formicinae are ants.
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
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Fungus-growing ants
Fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) comprise all the known fungus-growing ant species participating in ant–fungus mutualism.
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Gamergate (ant)
A gamergate is a mated worker ant that can reproduce sexually, i.e., lay fertilized eggs that will develop as females. Ant and gamergate (ant) are ants.
Ganglion
A ganglion (ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system.
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Gaster (insect anatomy)
The gaster is the bulbous posterior portion of the metasoma found in hymenopterans of the suborder Apocrita (bees, wasps and ants).
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Generalist and specialist species
A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet).
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Genome size
Genome size is the total amount of DNA contained within one copy of a single complete genome.
German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ that many aquatic organisms use to extract dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide.
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Gliding ant
Gliding ants are arboreal ants of several different genera that are able to control the direction of their descent when falling from a tree. Ant and Gliding ant are ants.
Glossary of ant terms
This is a glossary of terms used in the descriptions of ants.
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Gongylidia
Gongylidia (singular gongylidium) are hyphal swellings of fungus cultivated by higher-attine genera of fungus-growing ants.
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Group mind (science fiction)
A group mind, group ego, mind coalescence, or gestalt intelligence in science fiction is a plot device in which multiple minds, or consciousnesses, are linked into a single collective consciousness or intelligence.
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Gyne
The gyne (from Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites).
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.
Haidomyrmecinae
Haidomyrmecinae, occasionally called hell ants, are an extinct subfamily of ants (Formicidae) known from Cretaceous fossils found in ambers of North America, Europe, and Asia, spanning the late Albian to Campanian, around 100 to 79 million years ago. Ant and Haidomyrmecinae are ants.
Haplodiploidy
Haplodiploidy is a sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid.
Harpegnathos saltator
Harpegnathos saltator, sometimes called the Indian jumping ant or Jerdon's jumping ant, is a species of ant found in India.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
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Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Hemolymph
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod (invertebrate) body, remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Heteroponerinae
Heteroponerinae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing three genera in one tribe. Ant and Heteroponerinae are ants.
Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
Hindgut
The hindgut (or epigaster) is the posterior (caudal) part of the alimentary canal.
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Hirtella physophora
Hirtella physophora is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Holometabolism, also called complete metamorphosis, is a form of insect development which includes four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and imago (or adult).
Honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. Ant and honey bee are insects in culture.
Honeydew (secretion)
Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids, some scale insects, and many other true bugs and some other insects as they feed on plant sap.
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Honeypot ant
Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to the point that their abdomens swell enormously. Ant and Honeypot ant are ants.
Hopi mythology
The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries.
Host (biology)
In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont).
Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
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Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.
Hyphomicrobiales
The Hyphomicrobiales (synonom Rhizobiales) are an order of Gram-negative Alphaproteobacteria.
Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Inca dove
The Inca dove or Mexican dove (Columbina inca) is a small New World dove.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Initiation
Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.
Inquiline
In zoology, an inquiline (from Latin inquilinus, "lodger" or "tenant") is an animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. Ant and inquiline are symbiosis.
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
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Insect wing
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly.
Insectes Sociaux
Insectes sociaux is a scientific journal dedicated to the study of social insects.
Insectoids in science fiction and fantasy
In science fiction and fantasy literatures, the term insectoid ("insect-like") denotes any fantastical fictional creature sharing physical or other traits with ordinary insects (or arachnids).
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The International Union for the Study of Social Insects has at its purpose to promote and encourage the study of social insects and other social organisms in the broadest sense.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
Iridomyrmecin
Iridomyrmecin is a defensive chemical, classified as an iridoid, isolated from ants of the genus Iridomyrmex.
Isan
Northeast Thailand or Isan (Isan/อีสาน,; translit; also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issarn, Issan, Esan, or Esarn; from Pāli isāna or Sanskrit ईशान्य īśānya "northeast") consists of 20 provinces in northeastern Thailand.
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Isotopic labeling
Isotopic labeling (or isotopic labelling) is a technique used to track the passage of an isotope (an atom with a detectable variation in neutron count) through chemical reaction, metabolic pathway, or a biological cell.
Jack jumper ant
The jack jumper ant (Myrmecia pilosula), also known as the jack jumper, jumping jack, hopper ant, or jumper ant, is a species of venomous ant native to Australia.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, (30 April 183428 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.
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John Muir
John Muir (April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Journal of Zoology
The Journal of Zoology is a scientific journal concerning zoology, the study of animals.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
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Kin selection
Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.
Kleptoparasitism
Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another.
Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Laurasia
Laurasia was the more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around (Mya), the other being Gondwana.
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Leafcutter ant
Leafcutter ants, a non-generic name, are any of 47 species of leaf-chewing ants belonging to the two genera Atta and Acromyrmex, within the tribe Attini. Ant and Leafcutter ant are ants and symbiosis.
Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
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Leiningen Versus the Ants
"Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson is a classic short story published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire.
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Leporella
Leporella fimbriata, commonly known as hare orchid or fringed hare orchid, is the only species in the flowering plant genus Leporella in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to the southern Australia mainland.
Leptanillinae
Leptanillinae is a subfamily of ants. Ant and Leptanillinae are ants.
Les Fourmis
Les Fourmis (The Ants) trilogy is a three-part novel series by French novelist Bernard Werber.
Leucoagaricus
Leucoagaricus is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Agaricaceae.
Leucocoprinus
Leucocoprinus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.
List of ant genera
Ants (family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera) are the most species-rich of all social insects, with more than 12,000 described species and many others awaiting description.
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List of ant subfamilies
Ants (family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera) are the most species-rich of all social insects, with more than 12,000 described species and many others awaiting description.
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Long and short scales
The long and short scales are two of several naming systems for integer powers of ten which use some of the same terms for different magnitudes.
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Low German
Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.
Lung
The lungs are the central organs of the respiratory system in humans and some other animals, including tetrapods, some snails and a small number of fish.
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Lustre (mineralogy)
Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral.
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Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies.
Macaranga
Macaranga is a large genus of Old World tropical trees of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus in the subtribe Macaranginae (tribe Acalypheae).
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
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Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
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Mandible (insect mouthpart)
Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure).
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
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Mantidae
Mantidae is one of the largest families in the order of praying mantises, based on the type species Mantis religiosa; however, most genera are tropical or subtropical.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
Martialis heureka
Martialis heureka is a species of ant discovered in 2000 from the Amazon rainforest near Manaus, Brazil. Ant and Martialis heureka are ants.
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.
Master of Orion
Master of Orion (abbreviated as MoO) is a turn-based, 4X science fiction strategy game in which the player leads one of ten races to dominate the galaxy through a combination of diplomacy and conquest while developing technology, exploring and colonizing star systems.
Mealybug
Mealybugs are insects in the family Pseudococcidae, unarmored scale insects found in moist, warm habitats.
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Megaponera
Megaponera analis is the sole species of the genus Megaponera.
Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Melipona
Melipona is a genus of stingless bees, widespread in warm areas of the Neotropics, from Sinaloa and Tamaulipas (México) to Tucumán and Misiones (Argentina).
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Mesosoma
The mesosoma is the middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma.
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Metapleural glands (also called metasternal or metathoracic glands) are secretory glands that were considered unique to ants and basal in the evolutionary history of ants.
The metasoma is the posterior part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the mesosoma.
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Metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).
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Microsecond
A microsecond is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one millionth (0.000001 or 10−6 or) of a second.
Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects whose ancestor was Old Dutch.
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
Milo Winter
Milo Winter (August 7, 1888 – August 15, 1956) was an American book illustrator.
Mimicry
In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Mischocyttarus drewseni
Mischocyttarus drewseni, which is sometimes spelled "drewsenii", is a social wasp in the family Vespidae.
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Model organism
A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.
Mono people
The Mono are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generally south of Bridgeport), the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin.
Morphogenesis
Morphogenesis (from the Greek morphê shape and genesis creation, literally "the generation of form") is the biological process that causes a cell, tissue or organism to develop its shape.
Morphology (biology)
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Moulting
In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.
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Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Muslim polymath.
Multimodal distribution
In statistics, a multimodal distribution is a probability distribution with more than one mode (i.e., more than one local peak of the distribution).
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Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.
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Mutillidae
The Mutillidae are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants.
Mutualism (biology)
Mutualism describes the ecological interaction between two or more species where each species has a net benefit. Ant and Mutualism (biology) are symbiosis.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
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Myrmecia (ant)
Myrmecia is a genus of ants first established by Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1804.
Myrmeciinae
Myrmeciinae is a subfamily of the Formicidae, ants once found worldwide but now restricted to Australia and New Caledonia. Ant and Myrmeciinae are ants.
Myrmecochory
Myrmecochory ((sometimes myrmechory); from mýrmēks ("ant") and χορεία khoreíā ("circular dance") is seed dispersal by ants, an ecologically significant ant–plant interaction with worldwide distribution. Most myrmecochorous plants produce seeds with elaiosomes, a term encompassing various external appendages or "food bodies" rich in lipids, amino acids, or other nutrients that are attractive to ants.
Myrmecocystus
Myrmecocystus (from Koine Greek μυρμήκιον, meaning "ant", and κύστις, meaning "bladder" or "sac") is a North American genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.
Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Myrmecocystus mexicanus is a species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus, which is one of the six genera that bear the common name "honey ant" or "honeypot ant", due to curious behavior where some of the workers will swell with liquid food until they become immobile and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers, acting as living food storage for the colony.
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Myrmecological News
Myrmecological News (previous name: Myrmecologische Nachrichten) is an independent, international, non-profit, peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal devoted to all aspects of ant research.
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Myrmecology
Myrmecology (from Greek: μύρμηξ, myrmex, "ant" and λόγος, logos, "study") is a branch of entomology focusing on the scientific study of ants.
Myrmecophily
Myrmecophily is the term applied to positive interspecies associations between ants and a variety of other organisms, such as plants, other arthropods, and fungi. Ant and Myrmecophily are ants.
Myrmelachista schumanni
Myrmelachista schumanni, also known as the lemon ant, is a species of ant from South America.
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Myrmex (Attic woman)
In Greek mythology, Myrmex (antLiddell & Scott s.v.) is a young maiden who became a favourite of the goddess Athena.
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Myrmica rubra
Myrmica rubra, also known as the common red ant or the European fire ant, is a species of ant of the genus Myrmica.
Myrmicinae
Myrmicinae is a subfamily of ants, with about 140 extant genera; their distribution is cosmopolitan. Ant and Myrmicinae are ants.
Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas comprise numerous different cultures.
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Nasutitermes corniger
Nasutitermes corniger is a species of arboreal termite that is endemic to the neotropics.
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National Pest Management Association
The National Pest Management Association (NPMA), is a non-profit trade association founded in 1933 that aims to represent the interests of the professional pest management and pest control industries in the United States.
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.
Nearctic realm
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
Necrophoresis
Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area. Ant and Necrophoresis are ants.
Nectar
Nectar is a viscous, sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection.
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Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
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Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.
Nervous system
In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.
New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
Nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation is a chemical process by which molecular dinitrogen is converted into ammonia.
Non-coding DNA
Non-coding DNA (ncDNA) sequences are components of an organism's DNA that do not encode protein sequences.
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Nothomyrmecia
Nothomyrmecia, also known as the dinosaur ant or dawn ant, is an extremely rare genus of ants consisting of a single species, Nothomyrmecia macrops.
Numbat
The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), also known as the noombat or walpurti, is an insectivorous marsupial.
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Nuptial flight
Nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of most ant, termite, and some bee species.
Odontomachus
Odontomachus is a genus of ants commonly called trap-jaw ants found in the tropics and subtropics throughout the world.
Odontomachus bauri
Odontomachus bauri is a species of ponerinae ant known as trap jaw ants.
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Oecophylla smaragdina
Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include Asian weaver ant, weaver ant, green ant, green tree ant, semut rangrang, semut kerangga, and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in tropical Asia and Australia.
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Ohio State University
The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
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Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Old High German
Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.
Old Irish
Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann-Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
Old Saxon
Old Saxon (altsächsische Sprache), also known as Old Low German (altniederdeutsche Sprache), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Europe).
Oleic acid
Oleic acid is a fatty acid that occurs naturally in various animal and vegetable fats and oils.
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Ooceraea biroi
Ooceraea biroi, the clonal raider ant, is a queenless clonal ant in the genus Ooceraea (recently transferred from the genus Cerapachys).
Ophiocordyceps
Ophiocordyceps is a genus of fungi within the family Ophiocordycipitaceae.
Optical flow
Optical flow or optic flow is the pattern of apparent motion of objects, surfaces, and edges in a visual scene caused by the relative motion between an observer and a scene.
Optical resolution
Optical resolution describes the ability of an imaging system to resolve detail, in the object that is being imaged.
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Orders of magnitude (numbers)
This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantities and probabilities.
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Orectognathus
Orectognathus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Ovipositor
The ovipositor is a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of eggs.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Paleogene
The Paleogene Period (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma.
Pamalican
Pamalican Island, also known as Pamalikan, is a small and sandy island of the Cuyo Islands in the Sulu Sea, between Palawan and Panay, in the north part of the Palawan Province of the Philippines.
Pangolin
Pangolins, sometimes known as scaly anteaters, are mammals of the order Pholidota.
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Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
Paraponera
Paraponera is a genus of ants and the only genus in the subfamily Paraponerinae.
Paraponera clavata
Paraponera clavata, commonly known as the bullet ant, is a species of ant named for its extremely painful sting.
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Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. Ant and Parasitism are symbiosis.
Path integration
Path integration is the method thought to be used by animals for dead reckoning.
Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.
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Pedometer
A pedometer, or step-counter, is a device, usually portable and electronic or electromechanical, that counts each step a person takes by detecting the motion of the person's hands or hips.
Pest (organism)
A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns. Ant and pest (organism) are insects in culture.
Petiole (insect anatomy)
In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and wasps in the suborder Apocrita.
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Pharaoh ant
The pharaoh ant (Monomorium pharaonis) is a small (2 mm) yellow or light brown, almost transparent ant notorious for being a major indoor nuisance pest, especially in hospitals.
Phase IV (1974 film)
Phase IV is a 1974 science-fiction horror film directed by graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass, and written by Mayo Simon, inspired by H. G. Wells's 1905 short story "Empire of the Ants".
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Phasmatodea
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks.
Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
Philidris nagasau
Philidris nagasau is a species of ant in the genus Philidris.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phoridae
The Phoridae are a family of small, hump-backed flies resembling fruit flies.
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Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods.
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Pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.
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Pineapple
The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.
Piperidine alkaloids
Piperidine alkaloids are naturally occurring chemical compounds from the group of alkaloids, which are chemically derived from piperidine.
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Plant defense against herbivory
Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores.
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Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
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Pogonomyrmex
Pogonomyrmex is a genus of harvester ants, occurring primarily in the deserts of North, Central, and South America, with a single endemic species from Haiti.
Poison dart frog
Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central and South America.
Polarization (waves)
italics (also italics) is a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations.
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Polyergus
Polyergus is a small genus of ants with 14 described species.
Polyethism
Polyethism is the term used for functional specialization of non-reproductive individuals in a colony of social organisms, particularly insects.
Polymorphism (biology)
In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.
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Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
Polyphenism
A polyphenic trait is a trait for which multiple, discrete phenotypes can arise from a single genotype as a result of differing environmental conditions.
Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis is a genus of formicine ants found in the Old World with over 600 species.
Polyrhachis sokolova
Polyrhachis sokolova is a species of ant from Australia and New Guinea that recently was discovered to be capable of surviving tidal inundations.
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Ponerinae
Ponerinae, the ponerine ants, is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 47 extant genera, including Dinoponera gigantea - one of the world's largest species of ant. Ant and Ponerinae are ants.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Problem solving
Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Proceratiinae
Proceratiinae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group, with three extant genera, of which most are tropical or subtropical, although overall distribution is worldwide. Ant and Proceratiinae are ants.
Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Pseudocopulation
Pseudocopulation describes behaviors similar to copulation that serve a reproductive function for one or both participants but do not involve actual sexual union between the individuals.
Pseudomyrmecinae
Pseudomyrmecinae is a small subfamily of ants containing only three genera of slender, large-eyed arboreal ants, predominantly tropical or subtropical in distribution. Ant and Pseudomyrmecinae are ants.
Pseudomyrmex
Pseudomyrmex is a genus of stinging, wasp-like ants in the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae.
Pseudomyrmex ferruginea
The acacia ant (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) is a species of ant of the genus Pseudomyrmex.
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Pupa
A pupa (pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.
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Pygidium
The pygidium (pygidia) is the posterior body part or shield of crustaceans and some other arthropods, such as insects and the extinct trilobites.
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Pyrgus
Pyrgus is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers.
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Queen ant
A queen ant (formally known as a gyne) is an adult, reproducing female ant in an ant colony; she is usually the mother of all the other ants in that colony. Ant and queen ant are ants.
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
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Rectum
The rectum (rectums or recta) is the final straight portion of the large intestine in humans and some other mammals, and the gut in others.
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Red imported fire ant
Solenopsis invicta, the fire ant, or red imported fire ant (RIFA), is a species of ant native to South America.
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Region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).
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Regurgitation (digestion)
Regurgitation is the expulsion of material from the pharynx, or esophagus, usually characterized by the presence of undigested food or blood.
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Rhopalosomatidae
Rhopalosomatidae is a family of Hymenoptera containing about 68 extant species in four genera that are found worldwide.
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.
Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
Rooibos
Rooibos, or Aspalathus linearis, is a broom-like member of the plant family Fabaceae that grows in South Africa's fynbos biome.
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Sahara Desert ant
The Sahara Desert ant (Cataglyphis bicolor) is a desert-dwelling ant of the genus Cataglyphis.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Santander Department
Santander is a department of Colombia.
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Sap
Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant.
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Sawfly
Sawflies are wasp-like insects that are in the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera, alongside ants, bees, and wasps.
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Scavenger
Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.
Schmidt sting pain index
The Schmidt sting pain index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Scoliidae
The Scoliidae, the scoliid wasps, are a family of wasps comprising about 560 species worldwide.
Sense
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli.
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Sensory neuron
Sensory neurons, also known as afferent neurons, are neurons in the nervous system, that convert a specific type of stimulus, via their receptors, into action potentials or graded receptor potentials.
Servius the Grammarian
Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian (Servius or Seruius Grammaticus), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian.
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Sexual conflict
Sexual conflict or sexual antagonism occurs when the two sexes have conflicting optimal fitness strategies concerning reproduction, particularly over the mode and frequency of mating, potentially leading to an evolutionary arms race between males and females.
SimAnt
SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony is a 1991 life simulation video game by Maxis and the company's third product, focusing on ants.
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Simple eye in invertebrates
A simple eye or ocellus (sometimes called a pigment pit) is a form of eye or an optical arrangement which has a single lens without the sort of elaborate retina that occurs in most vertebrates.
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Slave-making ant
Slave-making ants or slaver ants are brood parasites that capture broods of other ant species to increase the worker force of their colony.
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Sociobiology
Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution.
Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
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Solomon
Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
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Species complex
In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear.
Spermatheca
The spermatheca (pronounced: spermathecae), also called receptaculum seminis (receptacula seminis), is an organ of the female reproductive tract in insects, e.g. ants, bees, some molluscs, Oligochaeta worms and certain other invertebrates and vertebrates.
Spermatozoon
A spermatozoon (also spelled spermatozoön;: spermatozoa) is a motile sperm cell, or moving form of the haploid cell that is the male gamete.
Sphecomyrma
Sphecomyrma is an extinct genus of ants which existed in the Cretaceous approximately 79 to 92 million years ago.
Sphecomyrminae
Sphecomyrminae is an extinct subfamily of ants in family Formicidae known from a series of Cretaceous fossils found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Ant and Sphecomyrminae are ants.
Spider wasp
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps.
Spiracle (arthropods)
A spiracle or stigma is the opening in the exoskeletons of insects, myriapods, velvet worms and many arachnids to allow air to enter the trachea.
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Sporocarp (fungus)
The sporocarp (also known as fruiting body, fruit body or fruitbody) of fungi is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne.
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Squamellaria
Squamellaria is a genus of myrmecophytic flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.
Sri Lankan relict ant
The Sri Lankan relict ant (Aneuretus simoni) is a species of ant placed in a tribe of its own within the family Formicidae.
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Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.
Sternum
The sternum (sternums or sterna) or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the central part of the chest.
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Stinger
A stinger (or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal.
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Strategy game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous, decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome.
Strepsiptera
The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species.
Stridulation
Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts.
Strumigenys
Strumigenys is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Strumigenys xenos
Strumigenys xenos is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
Subterranea (geography)
Subterranea are underground structures, both natural (such as caves) and human-made (such as mines).
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Superorganism
A superorganism, or supraorganism, is a group of synergetically-interacting organisms of the same species.
Surgical suture
A surgical suture, also known as a stitch or stitches, is a medical device used to hold body tissues together and approximate wound edges after an injury or surgery.
Swarming (honey bee)
Swarming is a honey bee colony's natural means of reproduction.
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Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
Systematic Entomology
Systematic Entomology is a scientific journal covering the field of systematic entomology, published by the Royal Entomological Society of London.
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T. H. White
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English writer.
Tagma (biology)
In biology, a tagma (Greek: τάγμα,: tagmata – τάγματα - body of soldiers; battalion) is a specialized grouping of multiple segments or metameres into a coherently functional morphological unit.
Tandem running
Tandem running is a pair movement coordination observed in ants and termites.
Tapinoma sessile
Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant.
Task allocation and partitioning in social insects
Task allocation and partitioning is the way that tasks are chosen, assigned, subdivided, and coordinated within a colony of social insects.
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Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.
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Temnothorax
Temnothorax is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Temnothorax albipennis
Temnothorax albipennis, the rock ant is a species of small ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
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Temnothorax americanus
Temnothorax americanus is a species of slave-maker ant in the genus Temnothorax.
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Temnothorax nylanderi
Temnothorax nylanderi is a species of ant in the genus Temnothorax.
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Termite
Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus. Ant and Termite are insects in culture and symbiosis.
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Tetrachromacy
Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye.
Tetramorium immigrans
Tetramorium immigrans—also known as the immigrant pavement ant, pavement ant, and the sugar ant in parts of North America—is an ant native to Europe, which also occurs as an introduced pest in North America.
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Thai salads
Salads that are internationally known as Thai salads with a few exceptions fall into four main preparation methods.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
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The American Naturalist
The American Naturalist is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society of Naturalists, whose purpose is "to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences." It was established in 1867 and is published by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Ant and the Aardvark
The Ant and the Aardvark is a series of 17 theatrical short cartoons produced at DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and released by United Artists from 1969 to 1971.
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index.
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The Ant Bully (film)
The Ant Bully is a 2006 American animated comedy film written and directed by John A. Davis and based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle.
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The Florida Entomologist
The Florida Entomologist is an quarterly open access scientific journal published by the Florida Entomological Society.
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The Journal of Experimental Biology
Journal of Experimental Biology (formerly The British Journal of Experimental Biology) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of comparative physiology and integrative biology.
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The Naked Jungle
The Naked Jungle is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker.
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
The Once and Future King
The Once and Future King is a collection of fantasy novels by T. H. White about the legend of King Arthur.
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Thelytoky
Thelytoky (from the Greek thēlys "female" and tokos "birth") is a type of parthenogenesis and is the absence of mating and subsequent production of all female diploid offspring as for example in aphids.
Them!
Them! is a 1954 Warner Bros. black-and-white science fiction monster film starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness.
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Thorax (arthropod anatomy)
The thorax is the midsection (tagma) of the hexapod body (insects and entognathans).
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Tibia
The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.
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Tiphiidae
The Tiphiidae (also known as tiphiid wasps, flower wasps, or tiphiid flower wasps) are a family of large, solitary wasps whose larvae are parasitoids of various beetle larvae, especially those in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.
Titanomyrma
Titanomyrma is a genus of extinct giant ants which lived during the Eocene.
Transposable element
A transposable element (TE, transposon, or jumping gene) is a nucleic acid sequence in DNA that can change its position within a genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity and genome size.
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Trigona
Trigona is one of the largest genera of stingless bees, comprising about 32 species, exclusively occurring in the New World, and formerly including many more subgenera than the present assemblage; many of these former subgenera have been elevated to generic status.
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Trophallaxis
Trophallaxis is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding.
Trophic egg
A trophic egg is an egg whose function is not reproduction but nutrition; in essence, the trophic egg serves as food for offspring hatched from viable eggs.
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
Vachellia cornigera
Vachellia cornigera, commonly known as bullhorn acacia (family Fabaceae), is a swollen-thorn tree and Myrmecophyte native to Mexico and Central America.
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Ventral nerve cord
The ventral nerve cord is a major structure of the invertebrate central nervous system.
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Vespidae
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps.
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Vespoidea
Vespoidea is a superfamily of wasps in the order Hymenoptera.
Vibration
Vibration is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point.
Visual impairment
Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.
Voltinism
Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations of an organism in a year.
Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Ant and wasp are insects in culture.
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Weaver ant
Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the Hymenoptera family Formicidae belonging to the tribe Oecophyllini.
William Saville-Kent
William Saville-Kent (10 July 1845 – 11 October 1908) was an English marine biologist and author.
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William Smith (lexicographer)
Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer.
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Woodcreeper
The woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae) comprise a subfamily of suboscine passerine birds endemic to the Neotropics.
Woodpecker
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers.
Yellow crazy ant
The yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), also known as the long-legged ant or Maldive ant, is a species of ant, thought to be native to West Africa or Asia.
Zigrasimeciinae
Zigrasimeciinae is a subfamily of ants, known from the Cretaceous period, originally named as the tribe Zigrasimeciini within the subfamily Sphecomyrminae by Borysenko, 2017, it was elevated to full subfamily in 2020. Ant and Zigrasimeciinae are ants.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering zoology published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Linnean Society.
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Zootaxa
Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists.
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See also
Extant Albian first appearances
- Aeglidae
- Ant
- Carcharhiniformes
- Chelidae
- Cucurbitales
- Ginglymostoma
- Gonorynchidae
- Homarus
- Labiduridae
- Lepisosteus
- Nelumbo
- Palinurus (crustacean)
- Parastacidae
- Poaceae
- Raninidae
- Scyliorhinus
- Sea turtle
- Spiny lobster
- Thalassina anomala
- Trypanosomatida
- Vanilla (genus)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
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