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Agriculture and
domestication are
practices undertaken by
certain ant species and colonies.
These ants use
agricultural methods and are
known as one of...
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Leafcutter ants are fungus-growing
ants that
share the
behaviour of
cutting leaves which they
carry back to
their nests to farm fungus. Next to humans...
- They are also
referred to as
agricultural ants. Seed
harvesting by some
desert ants is an
adaptation to the lack of
typical ant resources such as prey or...
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Argentine ant,
immigrant pavement ant,
yellow crazy ant,
banded sugar ant,
pharaoh ant, red wood
ant,
black carpenter ant,
odorous house ant, red imported...
- fire
ant (Wasmannia auropunctata), also
known as the
electric ant, is a
small (approx 1.5 mm (1⁄16 in) long),
light to
golden brown (ginger)
social ant native...
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Weaver ants or
green ants are
eusocial insects of the
Hymenoptera family Formicidae belonging to the
tribe Oecophyllini.
Weaver ants live in
trees (they...
- Fire
ants are
several species of
ants in the
genus Solenopsis,
which includes over 200 species.
Solenopsis are
stinging ants, and most of
their common...
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travelled to
Texas to
study agricultural ants. Two
years later,
McCook wrote The
Natural History of the
Agricultural Ant of Texas. In 1889–93, he published...
- Hawaii, and the
continental United States.
Argentine ants are
significant pests within agricultural and
urban settings, and are do****ented to
cause substantial...
- this form of
agriculture evolved in
ants resulting in a
dependence on
fungi for food.
These instances were the
attine ants and some
ants that are part...
