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the south african designer references the construction process weaver birds use to build their humble dwellings to create a series of large-scale nests fit for humans.
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Ants are amazing insects, and fungus-growing ants are perhaps the most amazing of all. This group includes the leafcutter ants that you’ve probably seen on David Attenborough’s TV programmes, carrying carefully cut leaf fragments to their nests along well-defined trails in the rainforest. Millions of ants can be found within a single underground nest the…
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is the most conspicuous leaf-cutting ant of the new world tropics and subtropics. These large, spiny insects are farmers, using freshly cut vegetation to cultivate a fungus in subterranean gardens. Colonies are among the most complex insect societies known: nests can persist for decades and contain over a million individuals.
Weaver ants or Green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants are obligately arboreal and are known for their unique nest building behaviour where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and contain more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Oecophylla workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers. The major workers are approximately eight to ten millimeters in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. There is a division of labour associated with the size difference between workers. Major workers forage, defend, maintain and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests. Oecophylla weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. best viewed LARGE: www.flickr.com/photos/rundstedt/4113812923/sizes/l/
is the more diverse of the two leafcutting ant genera (the other is Atta). These distinctive spiny insects cut fresh vegetation to feed to a specialized fungus that grows only in ant nests. The fungus serves as the ants' food source and in return is cultivated and dispersed by the ants. Like all fungus-growing ants, Acromyrmex is found only in the new world tropics and subtropics.
Yaritji is telling the story of the Tjala or Honey Ants which are found about a metre underground beneath Mulga trees. The Honey Ant tunnels that lead down to the ant's nests are called nyinantu. The Honey Ant larvae are called ipilkya-ipilyka. Honey Ants are a highly favoured food source. When the Pitjantjatjara go looking for Honey Ants they look for the drill holes under the trees. When they see them, they shovel and dig down, following the tunnels to find the Honey Ants inside. They suck the honey-like liquid from the abdomen of the Honey Ant. The story of…
Here are five more natural tips to help get rid of ants in your garden: 🐜 Coffee grounds: Ants dislike the strong smell of coffee. Scatter used coffee grounds around your garden, especially near ant trails or entry points. The coffee grounds act as a natural deterrent and can help keep ants away. 🐜 Cinnamon: Ants have an aversion to cinnamon. Sprinkle cinnamon powder around ant nests, trails, or areas where you see ant activity. This can disrupt their scent trails and discourage them from re
is the most conspicuous leaf-cutting ant of the new world tropics and subtropics. These large, spiny insects are farmers, using freshly cut vegetation to cultivate a fungus in subterranean gardens. Colonies are among the most complex insect societies known: nests can persist for decades and contain over a million individuals.
The Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is a species of pangolin native to most of Southern and Southeast Asia from China to Mynamar. They are an arboreal species and use strong claws and a prehensile tail to feed from ant or termite nests in the trees. They can roll into a tight ball, with...
Smallest of all the anteaters, the Northern Silky Anteater (Cyclopes dorsalis) is seldom seen because it spends much of its life high in the rainforest canopy, often curled up as an indistinguishable ball of fluff. They have no teeth and can only defend themselves by means of their razor sharp sickle-like fore-claws, which are usually used for tearing open ant nests. Females bear a single youngster at a time, which is carried on their back until large enough to feed on its own. Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
