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Insects have equally been used for their strangeness and alien qualities, with giant wasps and intelligent ants threatening human society in science fiction stories. Locusts have represented greed, and more literally plague and destruction, while the fly has been used to indicate death and decay, and the grasshopper has indicated improvidence.
The book sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. [ citation needed ] A video game adaptation was released in 2001. Les Fourmis is the first novel of La Saga des Fourmis trilogy [ 1 ] (also known as La Trilogie des Fourmis (The Trilogy of the Ants), [ 2 ] followed by Le Jour des fourmis ( The Day of ...
Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, etc.) do not have a tympanal organ, [2] but they do have a Johnston's organ. Tympanal organs have evolved in at least seven different orders of insects. [3] Tympanal organs can occur in just about any part of the insect: the thorax, the base of the wing, the abdomen, the legs, etc., depending on the group of ...
The pavement ant is dark brown to blackish, and 2.5–4 millimeters (0.10–0.16 in) long. A colony is composed of workers, alates, and a queen. Workers do have a small stinger, which can cause mild discomfort in humans but is essentially harmless. Alates, or new queen ants and drones, have wings, and are at least twice as large as the workers ...
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Instead of just a reproductive queen, termites have a reproductive royal pair, the king and queen, that stay in the colony to produce offspring. [8] The other colony members are divided into workers and soldiers. [8] Workers and soldiers can be male or female, and lack wings, eyes, and developed sex organs, unlike the reproductive members. [9]
Colonies of real army ants always have only one queen, while some other ant species can have several queens. The queen is dichthadiigyne (a blind ant with large gaster) but may sometimes possess vestigial eyes. [5] The queens of army ants are unique in that they do not have wings, have an enlarged gaster size and an extended cylindrical abdomen ...
Ants do this when they lose track of their colony, and sometimes will keep walking until death Ants walk around in a never-ending circle known as an “ant death spiral” [Video] Skip to main content