Searched for: Ants

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Empire of the ants: what insect supercolonies can teach us
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The Guardian

People have long drawn comparisons between ant societies and human ones – but in fact they are a reminder of how limited our influence on the world really is

It is a familiar story: a small group of animals living in …

Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Ants can beat pesticides at helping farmers grow healthy crops, study finds
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The Guardian

By Phoebe Watson Ants can be more effective than pesticides at helping farmers produce food, according to new research. They are better at killing pests, reducing plant damage and increasing crop yields, according to the first systematic …

Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Deadly Fungus That Pierces Ants’ Gut Cells are Wiping Out Invasive Ant Colonies in the U.S.
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Nature World News https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50165/20220330/deadly-fungus-ants-gut-cells-invasive-ant-colonies.htm

by Miguel Brown The days of the invasive crazy ant colonies across the Southeastern United States are numbered, and this …

Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
A New Technology for Environmentally Safe Pest Control Discovered Inside Insect Cells
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USAD ARS (US Department of Agriculture)

Contact: Janice López-Muñoz Email: Janice.LopezMunoz@usda

If you feel you are in a continuous search to have a fire ant free home lawn, you are not alone. These invasive and common insect pests …

Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Mushroom growing out of fossilized ant reveals new genus and species of fungal parasite
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ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210622123317.htm

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Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a fungus parasitizing an ant, and the fossil also represents a new fungal genus and …
Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Molecular Connections from Plants to Fungi to Ants
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Newswise https://www.newswise.com/doescience/molecular-connections-from-plants-to-fungi-to-ants/?article_id=753292

Leaf-cutter ants tend gardens of fungi that efficiently deconstruct plant …

Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Ant responses to social isolation resemble those of humans
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ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210407135746.htm

Social isolation results in changes of behavior and activity of immune and stress genes

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
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Ants react to social isolation in a similar …
Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Losing flight had huge benefits for ants
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Science Daily

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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University
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Researchers have taken detailed scans of worker ants to examine the hypothesis that the loss of flight is directly connected to the evolution of …
Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Reduce insecticide spraying by using ant pheromones to catch crop pests
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ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200827101821.htm

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University of Bath
Summary:
Scientists have developed a molecular sponge that soaks up the pheromones of ants and releases them slowly to attract the pests to an …
Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'
Ants or plants? Evolutionary diversification factors of aphids
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Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ants-evolutionary-diversification-factors-aphids.html

by Shinshu University Plant-feeding insect aphids are thought to have diversified by shifting their host plants to other closely related plant species. …

Found: 'ants' and inferring: 'ant'