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[Video] Time lapse - whole gecko eaten by ants in just a few hours!

Unbelievable these tiny little devils. Whatever we forget on the kitchen table, these guys take it. Now we tried it with a dead gecko we found in garden and an observation camera. Looks like time is money for this little workers and Geico needs a new mascot to tell you how much money you can save with their insurance. With this spirit, we would get rich in no time. This is really crazy.

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Carnivorous Plant Catapults Ants

Carnivorous Plant Catapults Ants | Science News | Scoop.it

One species of ant-eating carnivorous plant has a special trick to flip insects.

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Ant ballet (w / video)

Ant ballet (w / video) | Science News | Scoop.it

Artist and designer Ollie Palmer uses a synthetic pheromone to control the movements of his ants, with the aim of creating a kind of balletic ant dance. These 'Argentine ants' (Linepithema humileants) are too invasive to be brought back to the UK, so Ollie currently works with ants out in Barcelona.


Another video: http://youtu.be/XsNBNTdO794


Article: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/artificial-pheromone-controls-invasive-ant-dance.html


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Desert Ants Are Better Than Most High School Students At Trigonometry

Desert Ants Are Better Than Most High School Students At Trigonometry | Science News | Scoop.it

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Enslaved Ants Get Even by Killing Captors' Babies

Enslaved Ants Get Even by Killing Captors' Babies | Science News | Scoop.it

In the world of ants, a "slave rebellion" isn't a sudden uprising: it's the slow and stealthy murder of the next generation of captors while they're too young to fight back. Ants that have been seized and put to work tending another species' young instead tear some of those young to shreds. Now scientists have found that these rebellions aren’t random acts of retaliation, but an ongoing strategy in the war between these species.

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Photo Gallery: Amazing Ants in 3-D

Photo Gallery: Amazing Ants in 3-D | Science News | Scoop.it
New project captures images of every ant known to science...
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Ants Gone Wild: The Worst Sex Ever

Slovakian wildlife photographer Adrián Skippy Purkart captured a queen ant being ravaged by a swarm of males while having her brain sucked out of her head by a spider. This video was posted on the Amateur myrmecology Youtube channel.

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Populations of invasive ants die out naturally, saving millions in control and eradication

Populations of invasive ants die out naturally, saving millions in control and eradication | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows populations of an invasive species of ants frequently collapse without human involvement, potentially saving millions of dollars on control and eradication.
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