Ants in a sentence

Since their spindly bodies are the exact shape, size, and color of the colony of nomadic ants they live with, the beetles will latch onto the ants, letting them do all the work each time the ants move to a new location.

Ant-Man can use his ants to fly around or form structures in miniature, but he can also control information, not just the ants' bodies.

It’s reminiscent of the first time Scott gets the ants to help him on a mission as the ants build a chain, and then a tower, below him to give him a boost.

Infestations of little fire ants — tiny, orange-red ants that can deliver a painful sting — are across the island of Oahu, particularly on the windward side.

Infestations of little fire ants — tiny, orange-red ants that can deliver a painful sting — are growing across the island of Oahu, particularly on the windward side.

Did you know that ‘White ants’ aka ‘Termites’ are not actually ants?

Scientists knew from previously unearthed amber fossils that hell ants featured unusual mouthparts and horns, but researchers couldn't be certain how these ants used their unique mandibles and appendages.

Explorer ants count other ants to create a sample.

The ants, Colobopsis explodens, in this case the small worker ants of the species, have glandular sacs in their abdomens which will ‘blow up’ when the ant is attacked by an adversary, covering the attacker with a toxic substance.

Ants such as Megaponera analis attack the outside the mounds and Dorylinae ants attack underground.

Ants with this ability are able to control the direction of their descent while falling. citation Other species of ants can form chains to bridge gaps over water, underground, or through spaces in vegetation.

As an example of ecological availability, chimps may learn how to fish for ants with a stick from their peers, but that behavior is also influenced by the particular type of ants as well as the condition.

In species that forage in groups, a forager that finds food marks a trail on the way back to the colony; this trail is followed by other ants, these ants then reinforce the trail when they head back with food to the colony.

Other wasps such as A. multipicta defend against ants by blasting them off the nest with bursts of wing buzzing. citation Stingless bees ( Trigona and Melipona ) use chemical defences against ants.

Since most ants live on the ground, they use the soil surface to leave pheromone trails that may be followed by other ants.

Successful trails are followed by more ants, reinforcing better routes and gradually identifying the best path. citation Ants use pheromones for more than just making trails.

Termite nests were commonly known as terminarium or termitaria. citation citation In early English, termites were known as "wood ants" or "white ants".

The acacias provide shelter for ants in similar swollen stipules and nectar in extrafloral nectaries for their symbiotic ants, such as Crematogaster mimosae.

The ants protect the leafhoppers from predators and in return the leafhoppers feeding on plants exude honeydew from their anus that provides energy and nutrients to tending ants.

The Australian bulldog ants are among the biggest and most basal of ants.