"In what sounds like a low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants are invading Texas homes, short-circuiting fuse boxes and wrecking computers. They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers...
Should we be on the look out for 4 horsemen?"DALLAS - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards...
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"It doesn't take long for a food crisis to scar a generation of children with long-lasting brain and physical damage. It is urgent people get access to essential proteins, and one source that can help in...
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"Egyptian girl, Mai Zakaria Hussein,12 years old, woke up with an anguish results from a horrible headache, and unbearable pain in her eyes. The girl went to the doctor and the medical sources said that flocks of...
"campaign has begun to save sexstarved ants from extinction using £50,000 of lottery money.
The rare red-barbed ant is found only in the Scilly Isles and a small patch of Surrey heathland.
The problem is the Surrey...
Commonly known as trap-jaw ants, have a pair large, straight mandibles capable of opening 180 degrees. These jaws are locked in place, and can snap shut on prey or objects when trigger hairs on the jaw are touched. The mandbles are powerful and fast, giving the ant its common...
" BARICHARA, Colombia - The first loud crackle tastes and feels like popcorn, but by the time the juices spray wildly in your mouth and the filament-like legs slide down your throat, there's no mistaking this toasted ant queen. The people of sun-soaked northern Colombia have...
" Sara Goudarzi LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Sun Jul 30, 9:30 AM ET Having an extra ounce of fat is unforgivable for many gym goers, but for ants, it's a matter of livelihood and they do all they can to store some of this energy source. And they share. When times...
""When humans were busy fighting each other, the Ants had begun their preparations to take over the planet. Six feet tall, they had emerged from their hideouts in the Andes Mountain and had begun their assault in the year 7757."
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In the Fall of 2001, Cabinet Magazine introduced us to Walter Tschinkel, a professor of entomology at Florida State University. Tschinkel "has been making plaster casts of ant nests since 1982, when he first heard of the strength of orthodontic plaster. The painstaking...