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Ants In Lawns ants in Lawns. There are many species of ants which occur in lawns and other turfgrass areas. Most ants do not require controls and are considered beneficial. http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/aantsin.html
Extractions: Insect Zoo ... Iowa Insect Notes There are many species of ants which occur in lawns and other turfgrass areas. Most ants do not require controls and are considered beneficial. However, ants may become a nuisance by constructing mounds or small hills in the lawn or by invading the home from the yard in search of food. The ants found in Iowa lawns are not biting or stinging pests. The fire ants of the southern U.S., well known for their aggressive behavior and painful stings, are not present in Iowa. Also, the noted mound building ants of the eastern U.S. that build ant hills several feet in height are not found in Iowa, although our local ants may build mounds several inches high and 12 to 18 inches in diameter if left undisturbed for a long period of time. Ants are social insects that live in well-organized colonies. Nearly all of the ants in a colony are the wingless sterile females, called workers, typically seen on or around an ant hill. They do the work of the colony which includes enlarging and maintaining the nest, caring for the queen's offspring (larvae that reside within the nest) as well as search for food and bring it back to the nest. In the spring or fall ant colonies may produce winged males and females called swarmers. These disperse from a wellestablished nest to begin new colonies. Ant Mounds . Soil nesting ants construct mounds or small hills by bringing granulated soil to the surface from the nest below. These mounds may be unsightly, may cause lawn unevenness, and if large, may smoother out the surrounding grass.
ADW: Eciton Burchelli: Information Offers facts regarding the Army ant's feeding habits and social structure. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/eciton/e._burchelli$narrative.htm
Extractions: editLink('skunkworks/.accounts/cb6d66e8-55d0-4e0c-8330-e5df94ad6bdd') 2004/05/18 14:33:24.143 GMT-4 By Jennifer Roof Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Suborder: Apocrita Family: Formicidae Subfamily: Ecitoninae Genus: Eciton Species: Eciton burchelli Eciton burchelli can be found from South America to southern Mexico. They are found in abundance in humid lowland forests of Peru and Brazil. Biogeographic Regions: neotropical native The army ant lives in the heavily forested areas. The temperature and precipitation changes of these areas do not affect E. burchelli 's migration and statary activity cycle. Terrestrial Biomes: forest rainforest scrub forest E. burchelli are black and fairly hairy. They are usually 8 to 12 mm. Some key physical features: ectothermic bilateral symmetry The queen of E. burchelli
Carpenter Ants In The House Carpenter ants In the House. Carpenter ants are very abundant in Iowa, and are common pests in homes and other buildings. The most http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/acarpente.html
Extractions: Insect Zoo ... Iowa Insect Notes Carpenter ants do not eat wood but instead construct their nests in wood such as hollow trees, stumps, logs, posts, landscaping timbers, and the lumber used in homes and other structures. Nests are made by chewing an interconnecting series of tunnels and cavities. Wood is removed as coarse sawdust-like material that is pushed from the nest. The sawdust may include other debris such as dead ants and parts of insects and other food. Carpenter ants found indoors in the winter usually come from nests somewhere within the house. Ants found indoors during spring or summer could be invaders wandering in from outdoors or they may be foragers from a nest in the wall or ceiling. While there is no easy way to determine the source, it does pay to check carefully before making any treatment. Locating the source of carpenter ants is as important as it is difficult. It is especially difficult if only a few ants are seen at one time. Our best suggestion is to spend time observing ants to see if you can detect a pattern of movement. In spring and summer carpenter ants are more active at night and observations after sunset, with a flashlight on the outside and inside of the house may give an indication of the source. Presence of sawdust is an important clue in locating ant nests. Carpenter ant control can be a do-it-yourself project or a job for a professional pest control operator. Shop around and compare prices and services when selecting a pest control service. Under most circumstances, the best carpenter ant control comes by locating and treating the nest (indoors or out). The practical alternative indoors is to treat room edges, cracks and crevices in the areas where foraging workers are abundant and hope to reduce the population through gradual elimination of the foragers. Homeowners should use ready-to-use products such as "ant and roach killer" or boric acid dust.
Life Studies Homepage ants and ant related supplies for use with ant observatories and science projects. http://www.infowest.com/life/
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Biosecurity - Argentine Ants Argentine ants The Argentine concerns. Funding was allocated from the Green Package for research on Argentine ants and control methods. Forest http://www.forest-bird.org.nz/biosecurity/argentineants.asp
Extractions: Forest and Bird's Campaign The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry should respond to this potentially serious threat by declaring the Argentine ant an Unwanted Organism under the Biosecurity Act and developing a National Pest Management Strategy. Ongoing nationwide monitoring is needed to detect where the ants are present, and isolated infestations (e.g. Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch) should be eradicated before they have the chance to spread. Baiting operations and ongoing monitoring are needed at the Auckland 'epicentres' (e.g. plant nurseries and carparks in heavily infested areas) to prevent further spread of Argentine ants to other regions. Baiting operations are needed at other Auckland problem sites (e.g. landfills and reserves) and public education is required on what to do and who to contact about Argentine ants. In future, prompt action must be taken to eradicate new pests when they are first discovered in New Zealand.
Areawide Suppression Of Fire Ants Information on fire ant control in the USA, including biology, chemical and biological controls, publications, contacts, and distribution maps. http://fireant.ifas.ufl.edu/
Bugs From 24 Hours 7 Days' Offers ant farms and refills on ants food and habitat sand, insect habitats and silkworm city habitat and discovery kit. http://24hours7days.com/Bugs/
CNN.com - Ants Tunneling 'like Crazy' In Shuttle - Jan. 25, 2003 AIRS Saturdays 3 pm ET / Sundays 5 pm ET. ants tunneling like crazy in shuttle. A colony of harvester ants in space are not behaving as expected. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/25/coolsc.spaceants/
Extractions: RELATED NASA Human Spaceflight Harvester Ant Experiment (CNN) Average high school science class: read textbook, answer questions at the end of the chapter, take test on Friday. Repeat. Fowler High School science class, Syracuse, New York: Design experiment using harvester ants to be part of a space shuttle flight. Take field trips to Colorado for testing, and the Kennedy Space Center to watch launch. Enjoy international media attention during mission of shuttle Columbia. It was a long time coming, but students from this math and science magnet school now are watching their idea, their design and their ants tunneling like crazy in space. "We did this for a lot of different reasons," said 17-year old Abby Golash, now a senior at Fowler High. "It's not applied science. We're not going to find a cure for cancer, but there may be a lot of indirect results," she said.
Teddy Bear Press Includes information on the Guardians of Metro City Roleplaying Game, as well as about Michael T. Desing's Army ants Roleplaying Game and Comic Books. http://www.friedalive.com/tbpress/
Ants (Hymenoptera Formicidae) Of Cowling Arboretum And McKnight ants of Cowling Arboretum and McKnight Prairie, Preliminarly list and distribution of the ants of Minnesota, and Distribution of ants in the Midwestern USA, http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/BIOL/resources/ant/
Space ANTS: Futuristic Probes To Cruise Asteroid Belt advertisement. Space ants Futuristic Probes to Cruise Asteroid Belt By Andrew Bridges Pasadena Bureau Chief posted 0700 am ET 28 December 2000. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/space_ants_001227.html
Extractions: SAN FRANCISCO NASA may mimic the ant in its future efforts to explore the belt of asteroids that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a resource-rich region that astronauts might tap as humans move out in the solar system. A small group working at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center has proposed launching a massive colony of miniature spacecraft using social insect-inspired artificial intelligence to spend several years prospecting among perhaps 1,000 of the space rocks. "The idea is to have a totally autonomous swarm you can send out to explore multiple bodies," said Steven Curtis, a scientist at the Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA field center. Called ANTS thats "Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm" the fleet of buggy spacecraft would cruise independently to the Asteroid Belt. Each futuristic probe would hoist its own solar sail to capture the minute pressure of the suns rays and push it along on its journey. Images
New World Army Ants A review of army ants of the new world. Includes maps and keys. http://www.armyants.org/
Extractions: The New World Ecitoninae, together with the Old World Dorylinae, are the legionary ants, par excellence . Their colonies may reach enormous size (up to 2.2xl0 for Old World Dorylus and up to 10 for Eciton ; Brian, 1965). Colonies are nomadic. The bizarre queens lay enormous numbers of eggs at regular intervals and when the brood reach a certain level of development, the entire colony relocates to a new site. There is never a true nest, as such, but only a temporary bivouac. The available information on army ant life has been summarized by Gotwald (1982). The Ecitoninae were, until recently included within the Dorylinae, a group now considered to be restricted to the Old World tropics and subtropics (Snelling, 1981b; Gotwald, 1982). Wheeler and Wheeler (1985) have argued in favor of lumping all the legionary ants back into the single subfamily Dorylinae partly because that "... at least is well supported by larval evidence," even though they had earlier stated that larval characters (or their lack) should not take precedence over adult characters. As additional evidence they cited Kistner's (1972) conclusion that
Teamwork In Genetic Programming Thesis and software demonstrating teamwork in genetic programming. Simulates evolving software emulating ants and collective behavior. http://www.lalena.com/ai/ant/
Extractions: I have developed a Genetic Program that will evolve programs that will emulate the food collection behavior of ants. The teamwork.shtmlect of my GP comes into play when the ants must work together to solve a problem. The ant programs are written in a special language developed for this application. The language consists of ant actions such as: MOVE FORWARD, PICK UP FOOD... This genetic program consists of an an intepreter to execute the special ant language, a lex/yacc compiler to read, write, and convert this ant language, and a display process that allows the user to view the ants in action as they collect food.
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Brisbane Ants Pictures and information of ants in Brisbane, Australia. http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_wasps/FORMICIDAE.htm
