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In a bizarre parasitic death sentence, a fungus turns carpenter ants into the walking dead and gets them to die in a spot that's perfect for the fungus to grow and reproduce.
Bolivian police say that a 42-year-old man who fell asleep under an ant-infested tree has been killed by insect bites.
Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway.
China has executed a businessman convicted of bilking thousands of investors out of $416 million in a bogus ant-breeding scheme, state media reported Thursday.
Ants took up farming some 50 million years ago, according to researchers who traced the ancestry of farmer ants. An analysis of the DNA of farmer ants traced them back to an original ancestor — a sort of adam ant, at least for the types that raise their own food, according to a paper in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A court in northeastern China upheld a death sentence Monday against a businessman accused of bilking investors in a would-be ant-breeding scheme, state media reported.
A Chinese business executive was sentenced to death for swindling $385 million from investors in a bogus ant-breeding scheme, a court official said Thursday.
OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
"Death Stench" Repels Bugs of All TypesNext time you're faced with a serious bug infestation, you might try spraying your house with eau-de-death.
Fungus Makes Zombie Ants Do All the WorkA tropical fungus has adapted to infect ants and force them to chomp, with surprising specificity, into perfectly located leaves before killing them and taking over their bodies
Large Blue butterfly flutters back from extinction, thanks to a tiny antblockquote>One of the most beautiful butterflies in the world has been successfully reintroduced to Britain 30 years after it became extinct, thanks to a tiny red ant.
One type of butterfly has learned how to trick ants into raising its youngFeb. 4, 2009 -- Flitting across your yard, butterflies seem friendly and harmless. But at least one type has learned to raise its young as parasites, tricking ants into feeding it and giving special treatment.
'Ant from Mars' found in Amazon rainforest Scientists have found a new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant in the Amazon rainforest that is likely a descendant of the very first ants to evolve.
The Ant and the Grasshopper and the Australian Government''''The Modern Australian Version Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed; The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate like him are cold and starving.
My summer holiday started and because I can do everything but nothing, I decided to try out building homemade formicarium, while waiting for Lasius Niger's August mating flights. I thought to try out clay, which I have no previous experience, but that has not stopped me before.
Ant City is an online game, where ants get their revenge. World greatest magnifying glass has gone missing and the rest is easy to guess. Game is fun for the some time, but it's not something, you would spend hours with (I hope).
Maintenance of ant nest is not that hard, but there are of course few tricks, you should know. Naturally you'll have to feed the ants, but the nest needs also water (for humidity) and correct temperature. Humidity and temperature depend from the type of ants you have.
'Crazy' Ant Invasion Frying Computer EquipmentThere's a new bug crawling around that can wreak real havoc on computer equipment. And this bug isn't the kind you get through an email or an infected instant message, but an actual, physical insect.
It was +2C outside and I thought, that it would be good idea to clean the formicarium a little bit. So I placed the formicarium outside and waited about 10 minutes. The cold did it job quite fast and ants quit moving.
Parasite Turns Ants Into Tasty-Looking BerriesA parasitic worm can make its ant victims swell into what looks like a delicious, juicy berry to birds, which apparently eat the ants and help the worm spread and reproduce, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
It's been very warm winter here at Jyväskylä, Finland this far and with warm I mean mostly about +1C to-5C. In November I decided to put my ants to dormancy for winter.
In Finland ants survive the winter by going into a state of dormancy. Inside, it's so warm, that ants don't go to dormancy and they get little mixed. Ants might manage few winters without dormancy, but more experienced do not recommend it.
Thousands Protest Over Ant Aphrodisiac SchemeThousands of people in northeastern China have protested on the streets and surrounded government offices demanding help recovering money from a get-rich-quick scheme to raise ants to make an aphrodisiac tonic.
Maiden flights going onAnts maiden flights are now going on in Finland. Finland is quite "North country", so I suppose, that these have been going on earlier in the summer in your countries.
Like last few days, in this evening there were also maiden flights. I was able to take few pictures about the event, but not about the flight itself - I was too busy capturing them. I'm pretty sure that they are lasius niger ants.
Ants show us how to make super-highwaysThis is few months old, but you know me...
I had ants about one month in my gel nest and then it started to get mildew. Finally I decided to abandon the nest and move queen to sand farm. But no matter the gel was spoiled, the acrylic nest is still usable.
I though that I could try to do some researching citizen journalism. Two days ago, I wrote an article about ants, which got only two votes. This is like nobody is interested. However this was a planned trap for Newsvine readers, to find out, where the ant fans come from.
Marvel's Top 5 Unluckiest Heroes Some superheroes can't catch a break. In honor of Friday the 13th, Marvel put together the top 5 most unlucky heroes in their comics. It's great. Check it out.
So finally it happen, Queen Raat's first baby is born. I named her: JonesGirl. I just don't have that good equipment to get good pictures. The gel nest has a mildew problem, so I'm planning to evacuate them quite soon to another nest, which is empty at the moment.
You stupid fly, you just wanted to die. Formicarium & hungry queen, I don't want to be mean. This may hurt a bit, Flyswatter's direct hit. Now you really make it to Tuonela, Realm of the Dead.
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