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The Disney film, A Bug’s Life tells the story of an inventive ant who ventures out to find help in defending his colony against a cloud of grasshoppers. Published in 1998, the film was directed by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. In the film, A Bug’s Life, a colony of ants is forced to collect food every year for a cloud of grasshoppers. The movie centers around an inventive ant named Flik, whose inventions often create problems for the colony. That was, until one of his inventions accidentally…

Few studies on the biology and life cycle of bostrichid beetles have been done with mostly concentrating on economically important species (Liu et al., 2008). Typically, the bostrichid beetle undergoes complete metamorphosis with four life stages – egg, larva, pupa and adult. Eggs are laid in crack and cervices of sawn lumber or logs. Larva hatch and bore ¼ inch into the wood. Tunnels are filled with tightly packed, fine sawdust-like materials. Pupation happens at the end of the tunnel. Once…

Termite Prevention Tips - Learn How To Keep These Destructive Pests Out Of Your Home There are two basic types of termites that infest homes in South Carolina. One is the subterranean termite and the other is the drywood termite. Within these two groups, there are various species of termites including the Formosan subterranean termite that is highly aggressive and destructive. All termites are similar in that they can destroy your home, yet they are very different from each other when it…

Dr Deborah Gordon tech talk, “How Ant Colonies Get Things Done” she presents her findings from studying a collection of ant colonies in New Mexico for the past 25 years. More specifically, she focus on the Red Carpenter ant species. While colonies of ants may look at first glance like simply a bunch of ants running around aimlessly, a closer and more careful look shows substantial social organization. A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest…

as an individual, but being important when becoming a part of a bigger whole/society. Thomas uses a very critical and bitter tone to express that an ant are like humans, even if we deny the reality that our society are alike ants. Lewis Thomas connects an ant colony at a gallery as a body experiencing torment.Lewis’s experience with 2 million ants dying are exactly the same feelings with 2 million humans dying “twinges of sympathy, and something else” the idea that he feels something within…

Anteaters are edentates. Edentate animals do not have teeth. Anteaters eat around 30,000 ants and terminates a day, ripping open anthills and termite mounds with its long, sharp claws. Its tongue is 2 feet long with tiny, sticky hooks. To avoid the pain of bites and stings, anteaters eat quickly by flicking their tongues around 150 times a minute. They also lick fruit that has fallen on the ground. Anteaters living in zoos have a different diet. A zoo in Germany offers their anteaters a mix of…

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Leiningen And The Ants Leiningen And The Ants is basically a man versus nature war. Leiningen realizes that the ant population is very large, but he never gets the full picture that the ants population exceeds his expectations until. He comes across a field filled with ants covering twenty square miles headed to his territory. Leiningen then understands that all of not only his people but his home will be put to waste if he does not make a move. Leiningen is warned by the…

for descriptive science or hypothesis testing. An ant has been examined under the microscope and it has been found that this type of ants has the main parts the head, thorax, and abdomen. All six legs is branches from the thorax part. Ants usually classified depending on the number of nodes, the part that connects the thorax to the abdomen, there is one-node ants and two-node ants. The body of the ant is mostly empty and ( you can see through it). Ants also have small hair that covers their…

some isolated drizzles. Wow! That is really a very large ant nest, I like the creativity from those expert, to fill with liquid cement a nest to know its size was a great idea. Do you remember what kind of ants were and where do they lived, Ken? I don't know a lot about ant kinds that exist. I was remembering of ants called 'marabunta', also known as army ants, or legionary ants, however I've read they don't build nests with soil like other ants, but they build true living nests with their…