Times Record News: Goetze: Is there a good guy here? Fire ants versus red harvester ants | Opinion
Goetze: Is there a good guy here? Fire ants versus red harvester ants | Opinion
In 2006, biologist Mark Moffett noticed an unusual behavior. The usually aggressive harvester ants would park themselves near the nests of the much smaller cone ants. They just stayed there, like ...
AOL: How To Get Rid Of Fire Ants Fast (And Keep Them From Coming Back)
It's a rule here in the South. Following a heavy rain on Sunday, on Monday your yard becomes a death zone dotted with little, red-clay volcanoes—mounds teeming with fire ants just itching to sting you ...
How To Get Rid Of Fire Ants Fast (And Keep Them From Coming Back)
A red harvester ant holds its jaws wide open while a cone ant barely a third its size crawls inside and picks the mouthparts clean. The scene, first spotted in Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains in June ...
I: ORIGIN AND SPREAD, PRESENT AND FUTURE RANGE: Prelude: And what do you do for a living? -- A quick tour of fire ant biology -- The species of fire ants and their biogeography -- An atlas of fire ant ...
In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...
In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants acting as “cleaners” for much larger harvester ants. Instead of attacking, ...
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