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Ants Are Friendly To Some Trees, But Not Others

by mokosam on November 10, 2009

Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that when they run out of space in their trees of choice, the ants can get destructive to neighboring trees.
The research, published in the November issue of the American Naturalist, is the first to document that ants bore into live trees, [...]

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New Computer Simulator Helps Design Military Strategies Based On Ants` Movements

by mokosam on November 10, 2009

A researcher at the University of Granada has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial video game.
This work, developed at the department of Computer Architecture and Technology of the UGR, has designed several algorithms that permit [...]

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Invasive Garden Ants As New Pest Insects In Europe

by mokosam on December 8, 2008

Northern Europe has so far been free from invasive pest ants, but it seems just a matter of time until Lasius neglectus, a new ant that was discovered in 1990, will reach these latitudes and wreak havoc in parks and gardens of Northern Germany, Scandinavia and the British Isles.
A new study illuminates where this ant [...]

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Inland Ants Often Prefer Salt Over Sugar, Implying Salt May Be A Limitation On Their Activity

by mokosam on November 2, 2008

Ants prefer salty snacks to sugary ones, at least in inland areas that tend to be salt-poor, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ecologists from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and the University of Oklahoma tested [...]

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