Rise of the Argentine Ant Introduced Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) are rapidly displacing native ant species around the world as a result of: (1) aggression by frequently raiding, immobilizing and killing native ants, (2) less intraspecific competition due to genetic homogeneity, (3) competitive exclusion using large numbers, quick location and rapid recruitment, (4) and the absence of natural ant and parasitoid enemies. Native to Argentina, L. humile has been quickly spreading throughout
Nepotism in American Business and Politics During the November 2000 presidential elections, two children tried to make daddy proud. First there was Albert Gore Jr. – the son of a powerful and respected senator of Tennessee – who was no stranger to politics and privilege. As a child he attended the prestigious St. Alban’s School and while growing up, it was common to see then Vice President Richard Nixon as a guest at the family dinner table. Then there was George W. Bush – a third-generation
Introduction Ants are excellent at finding new sources of food. They have to be in order to find enough food to feed the whole colony. Worker ants randomly explore a new site until they find something that can be consumed (Deneubourg 1990). A chemical trail is then laid down by the pioneer ant to recruit other ants from the nest to the site of the food (Deneubourg 1990). There are three types of recruitment: tandem recruitment, mass recruitment and group recruitment (Beckers et al. 1989). Both mass
forms of power, each being a part of a whole idea on how a leader should act. He must piece together these ideas for the definitive way he should rule as king. In order to teach Wart, Merlin transforms him into several different forms, a fish, hawk, ant, goose and a badger. "‘I wish I was a fish,' said the Wart." (p.45) At that, Wart's first transformation plunged him and Merlin into the castle's moat. They proceeded to meet the largest fish in the moat, who is the ruler. This fish took what he wanted
How to Kill Ants One warm night, he came through the bedroom window. His sudden intrusion angered me. That was the first time I saw him in this house. His tiny round eyes seemed innocent enough, but he was frightened by my stare. His skinny long legs were trembling. He turned his head, saying, "I'm completely lost." That was certainly not a good excuse for breaking into my private property. "Hey, YOU, get outta here," I said as I picked him and threw him out of the window. "Never come back!"
The poem ‘Carpenter’s Complaint’ by Edward Baugh was about a carpenter who wanted to build a coffin for his friend; however, the son of the dead man ‘maaga-foot bwoy’ wanted another man, Mr. Belnavis, to build his father a fancier and nicer coffin. He was very mad because he built his friend’s house, but not his coffin. The carpenter described Mr. Belnavis as a ‘big-belly crook who don’t know him arse from a chisel’, and who only got the job to make the coffin because he was a big-shot. We knew that
the ants and the bullhorn acacias. The ants live in the hollow bullhorns and protect the tree, making sure there is no vegetation to harm it. In return, the acacia creates nectar and Beltian bodies, the yellow tips of the leaves and rich in protein, for the ants to eat and prosper. It is quite possible for both parties to live separately; however, the ants and the acacias thrive when they are together. Another tree and ant mutualism is the Cecropia (trumpet) tree and the Azteca ants. The ants will
Ants do for themselves, but for the good of the entire colony. An ant can lift objects twenty times its own weight that is even bigger than its own size (Pest World For Kids). That’s like a small child lifting a car if they were as strong as an ant. Talk about body builders! These tiny insects resemble termites and in many instances are mistaken for them. Ants are about the size of a small paper clip. They have a narrow waist between their thorax and their abdomen, with big heads and an elbowed antennae
"Food For Thought." Another problem is that our ant is starting to sag, both in the front (or, in entomological terms, the "prognosis") and in the rear (or "butt"). It doesn't look like one of those alert, businesslike, "can-do" ants that you see striding briskly around. It looks depressed, like an ant that has just been informed that all 86,932 members of its immediate family were crushed while attempting to lift a Tootsie Roll. But the ants that showed up at our experiment were total morons
project is to keep ants (Monomorium minimum) or also called little black ants, outside of our homes, and to not tempt them to come back in. The physical structure of an ant’s body and the lipid layer covering their exoskeleton makes ants a poor site for bacterial collection. Also, an ant’s saliva is made of antimicrobial agents that help sterilize the ant’s body. (Wicken, D, (April 20, 2006) Even though ants are one of the most sterile species in the world, psychologically ants cause an over whelming
In the Pixar movie Antz, there are several sociological concepts thought out the entire film which is based around an ant colony. There are four main points in this movie, sociological ideas of class, culture, societal roles and conflict theory. These four topics are clearly illustrated with myrmecological, to present anyone can be a hero film, which makes our own experience of class struggle, expectations of ideal culture, societal relationships and the struggle for betterment in modern human life
Kenny Triplett Spalding University A Bug’s Life is a film depicting the fictional life of bugs such as ants and grasshoppers. In this movie the ants work together in a very systematic fashion to complete common goals. These goals consisted of harvesting food and protecting the group. The story main features an ant named Flik. Flik is a very innovative ant but struggles to put his ideas to their desired effects. He eventually destroys the colony’s food supply meant to pay off the
Fighting off a few million ants is not easy when they will eat you alive if you get in their way. In “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” Leiningen, originally a self-assured, courageous, and stern plantation owner, changes drastically after his deadly encounter with a caboodle of ants to become a boastful and yet still, courageous survivor. At the beginning of the story, with the ants on the verge of invading his plantation, the district commissioner warned Leiningen that the ants are coming and his best
instead of defining themselves based on who they are on the inside, the people of middle class America define themselves in terms of external image and material possessions. A Bug’s Life is an animated Disney film that tells the story of how a colony of ants fight back against and overcome the domination and oppression of the bullying grasshoppers. When looking at the movie through the lens of Ewen’s theory about identity, several connections concerning identity are found between A Bug’s Life and The Chosen
Growing up as a kid the sight of a bee flying around was often terrifying, despite this there’s a complex story unfolding behind the scenes as they travel the world in countless numbers, gently landing from flower to flower. The rusty-patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis, plays a pivotal role within ecosystems, with responsibilities such as collecting nectar and pollen and helping the foods that are largely consumed today, flourish in abundance. Recently, the rusty-patched bumblebee was put on the
Dung beetle (Scarabaeus viettei) This species is a very important species in the nutrient cycling of ecosystems and plays and important role in structuring the soil. They primarily feed on the dung of animals and possess the ability to remove dung by burying it in the ground. The generally prefer the dung of herbivores but will also collect the dung from omnivores. There are three groups of dung beetles all which have different ways of handling, using or disposing the dung of animals. The rollers
Ant like insects have been inhabiting this world for over 130 million years, evolving into the insects that we recognize today from their wasp-like ancestors. Ants are one of the planet’s most successful insect species at adaptability and have even been referred to as super-organisms. Their adaptive success is due to their hive-mind like structure. This hive-mind like structure allows ants to not only defend themselves effectively from predators but it also allows them to exploit resources and modify
“The Battle of the Ants” and Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth” are about life and death, but they approach the topic with different perspectives. Thoreau writes about an exciting battle of ants and uses personification to relate it to the excitement of real human battles, while Woolf writes in respect about a moth who has death unexpectedly creep up on it and describes how little the moth is in comparison to the rest of life and how it fights to live. In both writings the ants and moth are fighting
Allegory for War in "Battle of the Ants" by David Thoreau The reading journal that I chose was "Battle of the Ants" by David Thoreau. I chose this essay because I felt that it was a strongly written piece about a somewhat interesting topic. When I first read it I was taken aback by its seemingly uninteresting nature of topic, but after I read it a couple more times I began to see its true beauty. The story is about government and war and depicted by ants battling to the death. "The legions of
C.) are big and strong. He raps, “R.O.C. too strong for y’all…/ Roc-A-Fella is the army, better yet the navy”. Jay-Z continues to call Nas and Prodigy small and weak with the lines, “Your peeps ain’t strong enough, fucka…/ we kill you motherfuckin ants with a sledgehammer,” and “You little FUCK, I’ve got money stacks bigger than you.” By saying that he (Jay-Z) is bigger and stronger, he tries to physically intimidate his targets. In nature, the larger, stronger males are more dominant, and so Jay-Z