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Definition of army ant in English: army antnoun A blind nomadic tropical ant that forages in large columns, preying chiefly on insects and spiders. 行军蚁。亦称DRIVER ANT Subfamily Dorylinae, family Formicidae Also called driver ant Example sentencesExamples - Usually you can sit beside the trails of army ants and watch for guests as the line goes by.
- Some species of woodcreepers forage by following army ant (subfamily Ecitoninae) swarms to catch the prey that are flushed by the swarms.
- The highlight, though, was our encounter with two army ant swarms, the most-sought after phenomenon in Latin American tropics.
- Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants.
- Each army ant has a particular smell; some are fruity, some are musky.
- Impostor in the nest: a beetle disguised as an army ant eludes capture by ants as well as entomologists - Column
- Dusky antbirds neither join in mixed species flocks nor regularly pursue prey displaced by army ants.
- We made films about army ants in 1954 but we were only able to film in the full sunshine and very few things behave in that way.
- It wowed the kids, especially when the million Costa Rican army ants were fed their ration of live crickets.
- They give the example of the army ant, found in Central and South America, on which no fewer than a hundred species depend, including various beetles, mites, and birds.
- Just as a city relies on an efficient transportation network, research shows that vast army ant colonies also employ simple mechanisms to organize traffic flow and minimize congestion.
- Nature's most voracious predators are wolf spiders and army ants, not polar bears.
- Intricate reticulated patterns appear in the passageways of the fungus gardens of African termite colonies, and in the crisscrossing trails of foraging army ants.
- Similary, species that follow army ants were more diverse and more abundant in this study in older second-growth and old-growth forest than in the younger site.
- The average length of the daily raid system of the army ants studied by Burton and Franks was 195 m, and chipmunks forage within 160 m of their burrows.
- But one particular group stands out above all the others and has attained infamy the world over: the army ants and driver ants, sometimes known as ‘killer’ ants.
- The army ant we were looking for, Neivamyrmex sumichrasti, was first documented by the French naturalist Francois Sumichrast, working at the time in Mexico.
Definition of army ant in US English: army antnounˈärmē ant A blind nomadic tropical ant that forages in large columns, preying chiefly on insects and spiders. 行军蚁。亦称DRIVER ANT Subfamily Dorylinae, family Formicidae Also called driver ant Example sentencesExamples - Each army ant has a particular smell; some are fruity, some are musky.
- Dusky antbirds neither join in mixed species flocks nor regularly pursue prey displaced by army ants.
- Intricate reticulated patterns appear in the passageways of the fungus gardens of African termite colonies, and in the crisscrossing trails of foraging army ants.
- Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants.
- Impostor in the nest: a beetle disguised as an army ant eludes capture by ants as well as entomologists - Column
- Just as a city relies on an efficient transportation network, research shows that vast army ant colonies also employ simple mechanisms to organize traffic flow and minimize congestion.
- We made films about army ants in 1954 but we were only able to film in the full sunshine and very few things behave in that way.
- The average length of the daily raid system of the army ants studied by Burton and Franks was 195 m, and chipmunks forage within 160 m of their burrows.
- The army ant we were looking for, Neivamyrmex sumichrasti, was first documented by the French naturalist Francois Sumichrast, working at the time in Mexico.
- It wowed the kids, especially when the million Costa Rican army ants were fed their ration of live crickets.
- The highlight, though, was our encounter with two army ant swarms, the most-sought after phenomenon in Latin American tropics.
- They give the example of the army ant, found in Central and South America, on which no fewer than a hundred species depend, including various beetles, mites, and birds.
- But one particular group stands out above all the others and has attained infamy the world over: the army ants and driver ants, sometimes known as ‘killer’ ants.
- Some species of woodcreepers forage by following army ant (subfamily Ecitoninae) swarms to catch the prey that are flushed by the swarms.
- Similary, species that follow army ants were more diverse and more abundant in this study in older second-growth and old-growth forest than in the younger site.
- Nature's most voracious predators are wolf spiders and army ants, not polar bears.
- Usually you can sit beside the trails of army ants and watch for guests as the line goes by.
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