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News -01-12-06 First Nonhuman Two-Way Instruction Found (MSNBC News) "Ants teach other ants how to find food using a poking and prodding technique called 'tandem running,' a new study reveals." "Researchers say the experiment reveals the first nonhuman example of formal instruction between a teacher and pupil in which there is two-way feedback and an adjustment of the course curriculum." 01-06 Papers -Ants (Wikipedia.org) "Ants are social insects that belong to the same order as the wasps and bees. They are of particular interest because of their highly organized colonies or nests which sometimes consist of millions of individuals." "Up to a third (33%) of the terrestrial animal biomass has been estimated to be made up of ants and termites.[2]" "Termites, sometimes called white ants, though similar in social structure are not even closely related to ants." 01-07 Ant Supercolony Discovered (CNN.com) "It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded...." "The 3,600-mile colony consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that cooperate with one another." 4-02 Ants (TheTermiteSite.com) Provides a comprehensive site on ants, including various types of ants and how to control ants. 6-04 Ants - Bulldog or Jack Jumper (Brisbane Ants) "They are considered to be the most primitive of all living ants and they are the largest ants in Australia." "They are aggressive and have a very potent sting." They are dangerous for humans. 6-04 Ants - Siafu (Serengeti.org) "Biting red ants, or 'Siafu' in Kiswahili live in colonies, but unlike most ants, do not have a permanent home. The ants range from 1 to 15 mm long, hunt at night, and hide in a hole in the ground or in a tree during the day, They shift locations as the insect, and sometimes frog-like, prey is exhausted. The Riverine Forests of Serengeti, being dark and moist, have Siafu hunting all night long and all day as well. They form either highways as they travel from their lair to the hunting field or fans when they are actively hunting. Siafu hunt by sensing the carbon dioxide that insects and animals breath out." They may attack humans, even if you leave them alone. 6-04 Ants Rule (LiveScience.com) "Scientists estimate that about 20,000 ant species crawl the Earth. Taxonomists have classified more than 11,000 species, which account for at least one-third of all insect biomass. The combined heft of ants in the Brazilian Amazon is about four times greater than the combined mass of all of the mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, according to one survey." 01-07 Ants, Argentine (Insecta-Inspecta.com) Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 9-05 Ants, Army (Insecta-Inspecta.com) Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00 Ants, Leaf Cutter (Insecta-Inspecta.com) Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00 Ants, Red Fire (Insecta-Inspecta.com) Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00 Fire Ants: A Natural Enemy of the Fire Ant Found (LiveScience.com) "In 1986, scientists found a natural enemy of the fire ant, a pathogen called Vairimorpha invictae. Now USDA scientists have figured out how to inject the pathogen into otherwise uninfected populations of fire ants." 01-07 Gliding Ants (LiveScience.com) "Add ants to the list of animals that can fly. Worker ants, the wingless kind." "Scientists call it gliding, or directed aerial descent." 01-07 Rasberry Ants (New York Times) "Look out, Texas Gulf Coast, here comes Paratrechina pubens, or something like that." "The ant is a previously unknown variety with a staggering propensity to reproduce and no known enemies. The species, which bites but does not sting, was first identified here in 2002 by a Pearland exterminator, Tom Rasberry, who quickly lent his name to the find: the crazy rasberry ant." 05-08

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