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Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been described. They are easily identified by their geniculate (elbowed) antennae and the…

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related to In culture · 45
Ant → Aardvark, Aesop, Africa, Amazon Indian, Anthropomorphised, Ants, Antz, Athena, Athena's, Atom Ant, Bernard Werber's Les Fourmis, Brazil, Bug's Life, Departmental, Examples, Ferdy, French, Future King, German, Grasshopper
related to As food · 33
Ant → Ants, Atta, Australia, Beauty, Bulgaria, Burma, California, Colombian, Digger Indians, European, First Summer, In, India, Issan, John Muir, Mashed, Mexican, Myrmecocystus, Naturalist, North Queensland
related to Etymology · 24
Ant → All, Ancient Greek, Crimean Gothic, Danish, Dutch, German Ameise, Greek, It, Latin, Low Saxon, Middle Dutch, Middle English, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old High German, Old Irish, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European
related to Taxonomy and evolution · 21
Ant → Ants, Apoidea, Camelomecia, Camelosphecia, Cretaceous, Fernández, Formicapoidina, Formicidae, Formicoidea, French, However, Hymenoptera, Italian, Jurassic, Latin, Portuguese, Romance, Romanian, Spanish, The
related to Distribution and diversity · 20
Ant → Antarctica, Ants, AntWeb, Greenland, Hawaiian Islands, Hymenoptera Name Server, Iceland, List, More, Most, Online, Polynesia, Taxonomic, The, Their, There, They, This, Titanomyrma, Wilson
related to Polymorphism · 18
Ant → Acromyrmex, Although, Carebara, For, In, Myrmecia, Myrmecocystus, North American, Often, Solenopsis, Some, The, The Australian, These, This, Usually, Weaver, Workers
related to External links · 17
Ant → Andrew, AntWeb, AntWiki, Argentine, Bringing Ants, Carpenter, Encyclopædia Britannica, Genera, II, National Pest Management Association, Odorous, Pharaoh, SciencesAnt Species Fact Sheets, The California Academy, Vol, World, WorldWilson
related to Relationship with humans · 16
Ant → About, Africa, Anoplolepis, Ants, Atta, China, In, It, IUCN, Linepithema, On, Pheidole, Solenopsis, South America, The, Wasmannia
related to Reproduction · 16
Ant → Although, Cataglyphis, Contrary, DNA, Females, In, Messor, Most, Pogonomyrmex, Queen, Secretions, Sicily, Solenopsis, The, This, Workers
related to Defence · 14
Ant → Ants, Bullet, Central, Fire, Formicine, Pachycondyla, Paraponera, Pseudoneoponera, Schmidt, Solenopsis, South America, The, Their, This

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ants species workers may nest colonies queens colony also food nests males many one insects used females found called use

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the Haidomyrmecinaeinstance ofwhich belong to extinct stem-groups0.80text
Sphecomyrminaeinstance ofwhich belong to extinct stem-groups0.80text
Zigrasimeciinaeinstance ofwhich belong to extinct stem-groups0.80text
with modern ant subfamilies appearing towards the end of the Cretaceous around 80instance ofwhich belong to extinct stem-groups0.80text
Camponotus blandusinstance ofsome ant species0.80text
Solenopsis invictainstance ofsome ant species0.80text
and Formica cunicularia are thought to possess a degree of colour vision.Two antennaeinstance ofsome ant species0.80text
nutritioninstance ofThis polymorphism in morphology and behaviour of workers initially was thought to be determined by environmental factors0.80text
hormones that led to different developmental pathsinstance ofThis polymorphism in morphology and behaviour of workers initially was thought to be determined by environmental factors0.80text
in army antsinstance ofdefined by one species being able to produce the offspring of another species.Drones can enter a foreign colony and mate with existing queens in some species0.80text
a pine tree to which other males in the area convergeinstance ofa landmark0.80text
Anochetusinstance ofTrap-jaws also are seen in other ponerines0.80text

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