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Bit by bit, we have pieced together incredible vistas of creation next to which we and our entire Earth are less than ants in an anthill.

They turned out to be sliced pig's ear, one of many traditional delicacies at a banquet that included fried ants, sea slugs and geese feet.

She then dusted off the crumbs from the picnic table so that they would not find ants crawling over their space the next day.

The shoemaker followed his way and found some bees with the same problem as the ants.

Regardless of class or with a different ant species ants, the number of ants within a nest can be very different.

Do not take off the aircraft, it has always been ants.

Indians were sent out to become contract laborers on Malaya's rubber plantations, or to work as indentured serv-ants in the West Indies.

" the ants said: " If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Suddenly, the small ants stopped carrying it "semi-disabled" into a ants, did not come out for a long time.

"Groom" life is not long, died shortly after mating to leave, "the widow, " living a lonely life of ants alone.

ants are a sort of insects which have the great edibleness and officinal value . their uses have been a long history in china.

Boric acid has been used to kill other insects including cockroaches, termites and ants inside homes since the middle of last century.

What appeared to me wonderful was that none of the ants came home without bringing something.

But, alas, by the time George has thought all this, the ants are already dead and mopped up on a wet cloth and rinsed down the sink.

throughout the project they felt a strong sense of identification with each other , like ants working toward a single goal.

A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.

Just then, the commander ant picked up the scent of a picnic basket. The long lime of ants picked up speed-marching, marching, marching.

Yet the American treasury secretary's worker ants continue to draft financial reforms as if nothing were amiss.

Ants can swarm over a field and find the choicest food in it as if the swarm were a large compound eye.

The only places lacking indigenous ants are Antarctica and a few remote or inhospitable islands.

thousands of screaming individuals, no bigger than ants, were about to be annihilated and I could do nothing to help.

When you are happy, deselect your marching ants by going back up to your Select menu at the top of your screen and choosing Deselect.

Just as I clicked the shutter there was a splash of yellow, and both ants were immobilized in a sticky, grotesque tableau.

After the cameraman had taken three or four photographs of the soldier ants, he found they had swarmed all over his feet.

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

The Brazilian rainforests around the Manos is the place to come if you want to see Army Ants on the march .

You walked through the garden of my childhood, and even when bare-footed you could hear ants crying out.

Kangaroo is a life of animals at night, usually after sunset only a few hours out ants, in the sun shortly after returning home.

It's not a bad smell, just not what I expected ants to smell like. But that's how you know it's sessile.

Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree.

Hold a number of ants gather into a black regiment, like the snowball rolling with the same fly and escape the flames.

I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair. Instead, I saw that they had discovered a new route.

It reached unending into the sky and its trunk was alive with an army of marching ants, each of them carrying a glowing neon digit.

unable to do anything about it I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair.

If I was an ant, I would carry food with other ants. But I will try myself to carry my own thing.

Protagonist is a pink little ants, she had to jump between the branches, up to eat all the fruits, be careful be caught spiders.

Mate said the ants, which he spent hours following, were "wonderful subjects. "

I've thought of nailing his head to the shed out back, that way maybe the ants won't be so bad.

The Ants inquired of him. "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer? "

Farewell ants, and she has a BB, I strongly resisted the days to see her in her pregnancy, even grew strongly ruled out.

The company financial report isn't due next Friday. BUt our boss has ants in his pants and want us to have it all ready on Tuesday morning.

We thought you might have gotten cold feet or something. Oh , don't mind my little brother Jason; he's just got ants in his pants today.

But the boss has ants in his pants and wants us to have it all ready for him on Tuesday morning.

At best, agency and information problems in financial markets make it hard for ants or grasshoppers to understand what is going on.

Farmers in parts of the United States have struggled for years with an invasion of red imported fire ants from Brazil.

Lovely little ants who, squirrels were all greedy collection of food ready for the winter it would like quite in thoughtful!

I always love to see the traces of time squat down, like the line by line through my memory. Ants, ?

But in the case of weaver ants in Africa, this description may be more than just a metaphor.

He stopped and watched with amusement to see the child so absorbed in a crowd of ants.

That afternoon, I watched ants dive into the cups for a swim, staying under-water for up to thirty seconds.

o For instance, she said, "ants are simple creatures but collectively can accomplish things that are amazing. "

The dimensions of this desolate tract are unknown to all but the inhabit ants. Only one path will bring you to the endgame.

And they sort of stand as a buffer in between the ants working deep inside the nest, and the ants working outside.

Shortly after the chilly ants were dropped into the glass structure, they got to work making tunnels.

I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though it failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for the twenty-four hours.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Jane can't sit still; she has ants in her pants because her boy friend is waiting for her outside.

Sun zhi-gang is a life lost the ants, and I even ants, also be a struggle for the ants, ants have its value.

Like worker ants they rush around and scurry as if the world is at an end.

The ant looks like it has a horn or antlers growing out of its head. New spores rain down from the fruiting body and infect more ants.

You yourself, when you walk, you do not find it necessary to move out of the way to avoid crushing the ants !

The weaver ants, it turns out, are very thorough about hunting down and eating fruit flies, as well as a host of other pests.

Richard: A Huang, the English words so small? And dense like a lot of ants, what you know about it?

heard "Pi pit" of the charred voice , which is the outermost layer of ants to survive using the body to open up the road.

My handwriting looks as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs.

In despair I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair.

Also keep the spray bottle handy for outdoor trips or to keep ants away from picnic or children's play areas.

Weaver ants have been used for pest control in China and other Asian countries for centuries.

The only drawback is the ants' painful bite, which can be avoided by harvesting fruit with poles, rather than climbing trees.

It is said in local legend that an army of these ants can dismember a hog in an hour, a horse in half a day.

I bent low to photograph the queen ant --- so low that the enraged soldier ants were able to leap on to my camera.

So we now have the marching ants selection around the sky with a 3 pixel feather.

Wise German ants insist, gloomily, that "trees do not grow to the sky" .

These worker ants act as well ground crew, urging this virgin would be queen skyward so she can mate some 200 feet in the air.

We have moved cane toads, wild pigs, mice, rats, weeds, sparrows, pavement ants and thousands of other species around the world with us.

Had the turtle or the ants given signs of distress, they might have elicited a quite different reaction.

So, the ants in the older colony that seem to be more stable are not any older than the ants in the younger colony.

Located in the closet, watching the ants or spider on the road, things in life reflect the daily life of this little boy is a poet.

Coupled with the arrival of the international financial crisis, "ants clan" in the next few years the number will increase drastically.

Like the scorpion candy above, this is basically a lump of melted sugar with a bunch of dead ants thrown in to it.

The guy's been waiting for a half hour and he's really getting ants in his pants for the cheeseburger and fries he ordered.

In spite of the fact that ants see a lot of food, they try to leave the dwelling.

Husbands often get ants in their pants while their wives are getting ready to go out.

the egg shell fire burned after inquiry into powder and scatter it around the corner, or the colony may be set ants on the death.

Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

Thank you for your kindness, but our baby will be eaten by ants if he marries to the queen ant.

The purposeful collective activity of ants and other social insects does, indeed, look intelligent on the surface.

Farmers whose trees are teeming with weaver ants, however, do not need to bother with any of this.

On a cold, frosty day the ants began dragging out some of the grain they had stored during the summer and began drying it.

Currie is studying whether nitrogen-fixing bacteria help break down the ants' leaf cuttings into a fungally-digestible form.

The heavy rain premonitory Dragonfly swallows flying low, ants, the fish to the surface of ventilation, rain will come.

Possibly, Dr. Dornhaus said, "the lazing ants are resting, or are waiting in reserve in case something goes wrong. "

On command, a long single file strides through the concourse like an unstoppable column of ants.

Looking at their ambitious energy, Uncle De praised that they were full of the spirit of daring to bite the big bone like ants.

Frank has got a ticket to the basketball match but his father ordered him to write the composition at home. He has ants in his pants.

It would be hard to grab just one. Researchers think this "popcorn" effect might help the ants escape by confusing their enemies.

"Ants have built nests in my videotapes, leeches are a daily routine, and I've come face to face with a king cobra, " he recalls.

To be the body's output of eggs mature, the small larvae hatch born, after the busy ants.

For his dissertation, he studied Pheidologeton, commonly known as marauder ants, under the Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist E. O. Wilson.

It's not due to the experience of older, wiser ants. Instead, something about the organization must be changing as the colony gets older.

Colony They were visited by a large colony of ants which obtained a sort of honey from them.

If you transgress, I warn you men will be no more merciful to you than those flies and ants are to that piece of fat.

Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly, or a column of anTS triumphantly bearing home an enormous dead beetle ?

I always love to come down, looking down at the floor as the clock traces of the ants and his party and his party through my memory.

Perched on the tendril of a Passiflora plant, the egg of the Julia heliconian butterfly may be safe from hungry ants.

He suspects the chemical would not be a deterrent for large ants which are too heavy to walk on the silk.

He echidna uses its long sticky tongue to catch ants. The echidna and the platypus are the only existing egg-laying mammals.

And then I sat down and all the ants came along.

The toads emit a poison that attacks the heart of predators. But meat ants are impervious to this.

And recently, fire ants have shown up in Australia, Taiwan, China, and the Caribbean.

But he wants the rest of us "crammed into a few huge cities like so many ants " because it's best for the planet .

His wife gets ants in her pants.

In the game you want the enemy to escape the control of small ants.

The ants, which range from northern Mexico to Argentina, are in a codependent relationship with a specific fungus.

Ants believed to have a "kamikaze attraction" to electricity have been discovered in one of England's finest National Trust gardens.

It turns out my kettle is full of ants, so every time I boil water to make tea, the ants get re-boiled along with it.

The Ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime.

Having proved his point, Dr Wittlinger returned both stumped and stilted ants to the nest and gave them a few days to recover.

You can't be so naive as to think summer will last forever. So ants are gathering in their winter food in the middle of summer.

Middlemen have played an important employment role and a role in current rural markets connecting peas ants, peddlers and independent firms.

And I thought, "These ants, are they looking for the queen ant? Or do they need somewhere to live? "

Ants are more diligent than any other animal, but they always keep silence.

A sexually undeveloped form of certain ants and termites, having large heads and powerful jaws specialized to serve as fighting weapons.

What's the matter? You got ants in your pants?

Every time I face to such a great nature sight, I will recall a line of ants who are hurrying in moving.

I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though if failed to get rid of the ants.

Unfortunately, soon after he found it, the book got badly damaged by ants and Krishnamarchaya wasn't able to preserve it.

Cupid saw her misery and sent ants, who quickly sorted the grains for her.

you know that ants destroy your home, you do not bear grudge .

There, the ants have existed long enough to have evolved this diversity.

I was full of such thoughts reading the book of Tang Shi "THE LIGHT OF ANTS" .

I see the worms crawling over the scenery like an army of red ants, devouring everything in sight.

Unlike in the first book, the subjects of this book are no longer confined to the 'ants tribe. '

Saharan desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis have to travel long distances to discover food in their impoverished, sandy environment.

Why do some worker ants lean on their shovels and let the rest of the workers do all the work?

The caterpillars of these butterflies develop special glands that secrete a nectar-like substance to attract ants.

And she discovered that about 50 percent of the other ants do not do any work at all.

On Monday, the patient's family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.

When a group is being intelligent, whether it's made up of ants or attorneys, it relies on its members to do their own part.

When it happens to be a rare sunny day, all the ants will go out of their caves todo some physucal exercises.

We started in the gallery forest collecting ants before heading up to the plateau.

These ants are harmless for humans but it is still very unpleasant to have ants crawling in your kitchen! ! !

It's now over eight o'clock, but Mr. Jones hasn't come back yet. His wife gets ants in her pants.

Yet the biggest single problem of the global system, in my view, is the attempt by ants to provide so much "vendor finance" to grasshoppers.

Let's eat. The children are starting to get ants in their pants.

Tsutsui and colleagues found a cluster of genes that allow the ants to eat a variety of foods.

And as I looked down on the ground, I noticed there was some ants running around.

She's got ants in her pants because she's going to a party tonight.

So it starts out with zero ants, just the founding queen, and it grows to a size of about 10 or 12 thousand ants when the colony is five.

So grasshoppers have to pass a test: behave like ants for a few years.

Ants have ants life, big like a great image of emotional appeal, cranes have the charm of the crane.

I borrowed money later to have the ants, he always said with a smile, anxious about what what.

Andy is sorting books on the cart. He replaces a stack on the shelf -- and pauses, noticing a line of ants crawling up the wood.

So I thought "Perhaps, if I made these ants some apartments, they'll move in. "

But ants do not sell them houses, shopping malls or offices. So grasshoppers make these, instead.

But scientists now believe that the leader of an ant community, the queen ant, makes sounds that set her apart from other ants.

The small black ants that we see running back and forth in the grass are the same ants that bother us by coming to our picnics uninvited.

He plans to call it "Dances with Ants" and hopes to cast Kevin Costner in the lead role.

rulers. Forcing peas- anTS into debt, serfdom and sometimes slavery, they seized most of the land for themselves.

Visitors slog up a crowded, hillside holding hands with strangers like worker ants on a particularly gruesome mission.

And the other ants don't seem to recognize their lack of ability.

What do you think is the major difference China's ants and college graduates struggling in places like New York City and Paris?

The worker ants hide in the holes of this death trap with their mouths open wide, waiting for locusts, butterflies or other insects to land.

Please do not whisk away these ants at will as you do to dust, because they also have honorable life like us.

Luckily, she was not allergic to fir ants. Some people have been reported dead from allergic reactions caused by fire ants.

The experiments with frogs and ants had led us to believe that bombardier beetles might be safe from all their enemies.

Really the question that I think about with these ants is what I call task allocation.

The ants build their nests in form of mounds in almost any type of soil, but prefer open, sunny areas or partially shaded ones.

Ants turn up to devour the free meal; they then, in turn, fend off herbivores who are threatening the plant.

"When these ants bring food back to the nest, they lay a pheromone trail that tells other ants to go get more food, " Harper explains.

African army ants, whiich attack prey in a herd effort and chomp down on any potential threats.

Ripples on a basin of water mean nothing at all to man, but are like wild waves over a boundless sea to ants.

Brown, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University entitled "Nearfield acoustic communication by ants" .

In the first task, she assigns ants to help her sort through a huge jumble of seeds.

Sitting there under the tree, with large ants crossing your leg, in that measureless solitude there was the movement of timeless age.

WHEN IT COMES TO SWARM intelligence, ants aren't the only insects with something useful to teach us.

They're known as "ants, " for their willingness to work, their dirt-poor living conditions, and the seeming futility of their efforts.

The ice-cream stick was empty, and under it was a sticky mess of vanilla and chocolate that anTS were enjoying.

The children think Dan is bananas because he talks to ants.

Each ant, then, as it comes back in, is contacting other ants.

The Grasshopper is about to fall to the ground when suddenly he thinks of the Queen Ant and Worker Ants.

Anna Dornhaus is peering into a cardboard nest box only an inch on a side, at a "family" of 100 or so European rock ants.

The Hodotermitidae are a semi- desert species known as forage ants .

So Ants have often advised Mila and Oa of karma associated with problems in their grounding of a personal nature.

One afternoon before a storm I saw ants coming out in large numbers.

Solitary worker ants spread out, looking for two main features: a small entrance and a dark cavity.

calendars around with them any more than fiddler crabs possess real wrist watches. But ants show amazing accuracy as to the day of the year.

The Grasshopper doesn't understand why the Ants are working so hard. But, he becomes a little curious. He calls the Queen Ant to talk.

In fact, elephants dislike ants so much that they avoid acacia trees that harbor the tiny, six-legged nectar-suckers.

In case you are wondering, caterpillars taste like the grass leaves they eat, and ants taste of lemon.

The movie also shows quicksand, man-eating ants and enormous Hawaiian waterfalls, all of which do not exist in the Peruvian Amazonia.

Any of six species of New World woodpeckers (genus Colaptes) noted for spending much time on the ground eating ants.

I used to think ants knew what they were doing.

Cleopatra had her lipstick made from crushed carmine beetles, which gave a deep red pigment, and ants for a base.

Though some feed on plants, many ants are confirmed flesh eaters, creatures for whom predation is a way of life.

A few scrubby trees, like red alder, have re-established themselves, and ants, frogs, meadowlarks, beavers and other species have moved in.

Oh, Mum, how about this ? Ants always stretch their legs in the morning .

But this monster has made the mistake of invading the domain of a clan of tree dwelling Azteca ants, fierce warriors one-tenth its size.

The outing activity of worker ants was greatly enhanced by showers in comparison with that in fine day.

This pheromone-driven behaviour means that although single ants are not clever, collectively they are capable of complex tasks.

Despite local tyr-ants, the central government strengthened its control over minority nationality regions of the Northwest.

Currie's team investigated the mystery of where the ants were getting their extra nitrogen by raising leafcutter colonies in airtight boxes.

And I know how colony size changes as a function of colony age, because I've dug up colonies of known age and counted all the ants.

In his annual address to employers' federation, the Minister hinted at an increase in the capital gr ants for new factories.

That was the first house of the ants before they got a new and comfortable dwelling.

Plastic spheres and tubes serve as living chambers and tunnels; you provide food, soil, moss, and water (and ants, sold separately).

Once, I walked under a branch and knocked down an ants' nest, sending thousands of them cascading over me.

Teaching a group of farmers in Burkina Faso to use weaver ants in this way took just a day, according to.

Tsutsui himself hopes to use the new genetic data to identify how the Argentines use chemicals to lay down trails for fellow ants to follow.

They also have to determine how native species of ants are coexisting in such close quarters with invasive species.

People have suspected the ants used their jaws to jump for over a century, but could only prove it with today's modern video equipment.

Today you'll get a chance to see how ants live.

The ants trusted one another: I must do away with the notion that only by working alone can I ensure quality.

L. humile shows aggression not just to neighboring colonies of Argentine ants, but to any ant species.

In a new study, researchers usedmicroscopes to peer inside affected ants and see how the infection progresses.

Ants are also ultimately loyal, fighting as a "superorganism" rather than individuals.

He poked the ants out with his finger.

As a consequence, the number of ants following path BCD per unit of time will be higher than the number of ants following BHD.

The researchers found out why when they plucked ants left behind into a plastic bowl: Only six of 23 survived the night.

And what happens is that the ants eventually end up in a circle.

Ants in more temperate climates often lay down chemical trails, but Cataglyphis, apparently, does not.

Meanwhile, the black ants are blocking the entrances to their tunnels with all the stones and mud that their engineers and workers can find.

This leads to the next question: is there a way to ensure ants and grasshoppers coexist harmoniously?

It follows that, sitting watching the poor poet, hungry, willing to lend money to people, the former is undoubtedly the ants.

I do not know why, hate insects, but will play in the ground to play ants until it is dark.

Ants then came to take it away for food, the titmouse had been hurt by the owl's claws the fall to the ground, so it couldn't move.

It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for? ---Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and author.

Ants are amazing group of insects that been around since before the age of dinosaurs.

Some ants, when they arrived at the feeding station, had the ends of their legs amputated, to shorten their stride length.

It wasn't the ants crawling up there and getting him, it was the damn nails.

This can greatly strengthen the cooperation between ants, accelerate the convergence speed and enhance the global searching ability.

One afternoon I saw ants coming out in huge numbers.

Ants need ventilation and a possibility to moisture their dwelling.

Harvester ants bring seeds back to their nests and store them in chambers, while honey bees save nectar and pollen in their hive.

To test this idea he trained his ants to walk from their nests to a feeding station through a ten-metre-long channel.

When you are mowing the place must pay attention here are a nest of ants not to hurt them . . . . . .

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.

I learned to stop steadying myself on trees, which harboured tiny ants that crawled up my arms, leaving wet sores.

He told Dumbledore would be tantamount to ants play with elephants, Where is the opponent.

Pheromones thus amplify the limited intelligence of the individual ants into something more powerful.

Within different image areas, different iteration numbers and steps were set for ants to achieve superior image segmentation results.

For a tiny insect, red fire ants pack a nasty sting. Stepping on a nest can put you in the hospital.

People are afraid of them, and animals are afraid of them, too, These ants move in large groups. They eat all the animals in their way.

The number of diffluent ants is adjusted by simulated annealing for expediting convergence.

But this Australian caterpillar also produces a chemical scent that tricks the ants into caring for it.

Before long, the story spread all over China, and everyone knew about the brother who ants boosted to first place.

That peasant was very pleased, because he got a pleasant pheasant which liked eating peas and ants in his house.

It was the dumbest thing I'd done since 1979, when I pitched a tent on a colony of army ants in Mexico.

Before it rains in a typhoon, anTS come out of their holes, they have very sensitive "noses" and they know their meteorology.

When I read it, made me remember I went there with you and my ants twenty years ago.