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1. Ants, Argentine (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
   Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 9-05

2. Ants, Army (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
   Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00

3. Ants, Red Fire (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
   Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00

4. Ants, Leaf Cutter (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
   Provides interesting and detailed descriptions of the ants and their social structures. Includes drawings. 10-00

5. Ants (TheTermiteSite.com)
   Provides a comprehensive site on ants, including various types of ants and how to control ants. 6-04

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. -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

12. 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

13. Phylogeny (University of Arizona - David Maddison)
    Provides phylogeny by group, by a root tree, by organism, or by a search engine. Includes Eubacteria and Eukaroytes, which include animals, fungi, and green plants. Animals include Echinoderms (Echinodermata), Vertebrates, Cnidaria, Cephalopods (Cephalopada), and Arthropods (Arthropada). Arthopods include Insects and Arachnids. Insects include Dragonflies, Damselflies, Lice, True Bugs, Beetles, Wasps, Bees, Ants, Flies, Butterflies, Moths, Crickets, Katydids, and Grasshoppers. Arachnids include spiders, mites, and scorpions. 2-01

14. Household Insects (Cook's Termite and Pest Control)
    Provides information on identifying and controlling common household insects, such as earwigs, ants, termites, centipedes, bees, wasps, silverfish, millipedes, cockroaches, and flies. Also discusses rodents, such as mice and rats. "Indoors, these pests may be controlled with natural or synthetic insecticide aerosols, such as pyrethrins."

15. Cloud Forest Animals (CloudForestAlive.org)
    Provides pictures and interesting descriptions of animals that inhabit the cloud forests of Central America and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Includes, for example, the spider wasp, guan, olingo, toucanet, howler monkeys, gray fox, viper, fruit bats, bananaquit, cyclosa spider, solitaire, skink, spectacled owl, ant lion, thrush, tink frog, nocternal katydids, chunk-headed snake, anole, trogon, spiny lizard, oropendolas, marine toad, coati, two-toed sloth, mottled owl, army ants, deer, redstarts, and screech owl. 2-01

16. Insects (Insectlopedia)
    Provides sources of information on Antlions, Beetles, Dragonflies, Mites, Termites, Ants, Butterflies, Fleas, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Arachnids, Cicadas, Flies, Moths, Wasps, Bees, Cockroaches, Mayflies, and Praying Mantids. Includes a search engine. 2-01

17. Household Insects (Clemson University)
    Provides pictures and descriptions of common household insects, such as ants, flies, termites, roaches, and silverfish. 11-01

18. 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

19. Insects A to Z (Insectlopedia)
    Provides links to some of the better known insects, such as Antlions, Beetles, Dragonflies, Mites, Termites, Ants, Butterflies, Fleas, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Arachnids, Cicadas, Flies, Moths, Wasps, Bees, Cockroaches, Mayflies, and Praying Mantids." 7-04

20. Bees - Males Have Half the Chromosomes (NationalGeographic.com)
    "Bees, wasps, and ants from the group of insects known as the hymenopteran order and other invertebrates have males with only half the usual complement of chromosomes. These insects and invertebrates comprise 20 percent of all animals." 10-04

21. 30 Great Fixes for the Home (PopularMechanics.com)
    "A solve-it-fast guide for home, car and more. Because--sometimes--duct tape just isn't enough." For example, it shows how to get rid of ants without using poison. 02-05

22. -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

23. -12-12-06 "Dead" Indian Language Revived (MSNBC News)
    "Of perhaps 400 Indian languages spoken in North America in 1500, about 45 are in common use today, one expert estimated."
    
    A movie director chose the task of researching pre-1800's Algonquian language in order to include it in a movie about colonial era Virginia. "The best source was a list of Indian words and their meanings compiled by a Jamestown colonist in the 1600s. But it had been recopied by some of the 17th century's most incompetent scribes. Their N's looked like A's, which looked like U's, and they had a serious problem with spelling. The Algonquian word for 'ants' had been mislabeled as 'aunts,' and the word for 'herring' had become 'hearing.' " 12-06

24. Using Charcoal Dust (WorldPress.com)
    "The dust is brought to the factory which is on the outskirts of Nairobi. Here, 70 employees grind the dust with coffee, rice husks and sawdust into a mix to form the briquettes that burn longer. They are also said to be cleaner than charcoal, are smoke, smell and spark free. This helps conserve the trees."
    
    "Also, when applied to the soil, charcoal dust repels ants. Some farmers use charcoal dust to keep the ants, and especially termites away from their mud and stick structures. This is by putting a layer of charcoal dust around the structure." 07-09