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Type of ant that exploits other ant species
A parasitic ant is a type of ant that exploits the social structure of another ant species for its own survival and reproduction. The most common types
Parasitic_ant
Species of ants that steal young ants of another species to contribute to their colony
Alternatively, facultative slave-making ants, like those in the Formica sanguinea complex, represent an intermediate parasitic group, between free-living species
Slave-making_ant
Genus of red ants
Solenopsis ants parasitically take advantage of are bees, such as Euglossa imperialis, a nonsocial orchid bee species, from which the ants enter the cells
Fire_ant
Species of fungus
game Cult of the Lamb features an ant character named Sozo who is implied to be under the influence of a parasitic fungus similar in nature to Ophiocordyceps
Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
Family of insects
co-evolution with other species has led to mimetic, commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships. Ant societies have division of labour, communication between
Ant
Conflict between groups of ants
Wars or conflicts can break out between different groups in some ant species for a variety of reasons. These violent confrontations typically involve
War_in_ants
Species of ant
colloquially known as the yellow shadow ant and yellow lawn ant, is a Palearctic species of parasitic ant distributed across Eurasia and the Maghreb
Lasius_umbratus
Type of interaction between species
"Alternative adaptations, sympatric speciation and the evolution of parasitic, inquiline ants". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 43 (3): 157–178.
Parasitism
One strategy of parasitism
plant-ant". Nature. 401 (6753): 578–581. Bibcode:1999Natur.401..578S. doi:10.1038/44119. Hall, S. R.; Becker, C.; Caceres, C. E. (2007-05-22). "Parasitic castration:
Parasitic_castration
Species of insect endemic to Australia
name and wingless body, it is not an ant but rather a species of large, solitary, parasitic wasp. The blue ant is endemic to south and southeast Australia
Blue_ant
Animal reliance on other individuals to raise its young
cuckoos and other brood-parasitic birds. This is also the case for the parasitic butterfly, Niphanda fusca, and its host ant Camponotus japonicus. The
Brood_parasitism
Species of ant
males living entirely off the care of the pavement ant. It has been called "the 'ultimate' parasitic ant" by myrmecologists Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler
Tetramorium_inquilinum
Species of ant
Tetramorium atratulum is a rare workerless socially parasitic ant from the Palaearctic region, which has even been introduced together with its host in
Tetramorium_atratulum
Species of ant
pheromone from her enlarged Dufour's gland that, unlike many other parasitic ants, has a pacifying effect. The queen quickly searches for and locates
Polyergus_breviceps
Underground lair where ants live, eat, and tend eggs
food. Some social-parasitic species of ants, known as the slave-making ant, raid and steal larvae from neighboring colonies. Since ant colonies can range
Ant_colony
Family of flies
commensal or parasitic relationships with ants. Commensal myrmecophilous phorids most often live in waste piles, consuming food discarded by the ants. Parasitoid
Phoridae
Over 50 species of leaf-foraging ants of the Americas
longevity. The necrotrophic parasitic fungus Escovopsis threatens the ants' food source and thus is a constant danger to the ants. The waste transporters
Leafcutter_ant
Species of ant
habitat, the ant is "vulnerable" according to the IUCN Red List. Before the discovery of M. inquilina, scientists believed that parasitic ants did not exist
Myrmecia_inquilina
Species of velvet ant
is the most commonly encountered velvet ant in Texas. Velvet ants are actually parasitic wasps, among the species used by D. klugii to incubate their
Dasymutilla_klugii
Species of ant
after its brood and reliant on ants of another species of the genus Formica to undertake these tasks. Parasitic ants are known as "dulotics" (from the
Polyergus_lucidus
Species of ant
socially parasitic ant species known from Southern Europe, more specifically from Italy, France and Croatia. It is a workerless social parasite of the ant Temnothorax
Temnothorax_corsicus
Group of wasps
clade called Euhymenoptera, but the parasitic lifestyle has secondarily been lost several times including among the ants, bees, and vespid wasps. As a result
Parasitoid_wasp
Medical condition
Ant venom is any of, or a mixture of, irritants and toxins inflicted by ants. Most ants spray or inject a venom, the main constituent of which is formic
Ant_venom
Species of ant
Monomorium is the highly invasive pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis. It is a parasitic ant that has no worker caste. The queen enters the colony of a different
Monomorium_santschii
Family of wasps
Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers
Velvet_ant
Invasive ant species
Solenopsis invicta, the fire ant, or red imported fire ant (RIFA), is a species of ant native to South America. A member of the genus Solenopsis in the
Red_imported_fire_ant
Extinct genus of fungus
Allocordyceps is an extinct genus of parasitic fungus in the order Hypocreales that parasitized carpenter ants. The fossil of Allocordyceps baltica, from
Allocordyceps
Species of ant
subapical tooth is much greater than in other species. Many socially parasitic ant species have falcate mandibles associated with their ability to attack
Megalomyrmex_reina
Order of insects
and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic. Females
Hymenoptera
Species of ant
and workerless Tetramorium inquilinum ant. This parasitic ant spends its life clinging to the back of a pavement ant, particularly queens. T. immigrans prefers
Tetramorium_immigrans
Family of wasps
Eucharitids are specialized parasitoids of ants, meaning each species is usually only parasitic of one genus of ant. Furthermore, they are one of the few parasitoids
Eucharitidae
Genus of ants
is a genus of ants of the subfamily Formicinae, including species commonly known as wood ants, mound ants, thatching ants, and field ants. Formica is the
Formica
Genus of ants
Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the ant family (Formicidae) belonging to the tribe Oecophyllini. Weaver ants live in trees (they are
Weaver_ant
Species of ant endemic to Australia
jack jumper ant (Myrmecia pilosula), also known as the jack jumper, jumping jack, hopper ant, or jumper ant, is a species of venomous ant native to Australia
Jack_jumper_ant
Genus of ants
Zealand in 1940, but the ant was last seen in 1981. These ants are commonly known as bull ants, bulldog ants or jack jumper ants, and are also associated
Myrmecia_(ant)
Genus of ants
Convergent Origins of Workerlessness and Inbreeding in the Socially Parasitic Ant Genus Myrmoxenus". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0131023. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1031023H
Temnothorax
Positive interspecies associations between ants and other organisms
commensal or even parasitic interactions. A "myrmecophile" is an organism that associates with ants. An estimated 10,000 species of ants (Formicidae) are
Myrmecophily
Parasitic creature
PMID 19627240. S2CID 31283817. Sample, Ian (18 August 2010). "'Zombie ants' controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years". The Guardian. Archived from the original
Behavior-altering_parasite
Species of roundworm
Tropical Ant Cephalotes atratus. Journal of Parasitology: October 2011, Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 958–959. Evans, C. (2015, February 5). Parasitic Mind Control
Myrmeconema_neotropicum
Mammals known for eating ants and termites
suborder Vermilingua (meaning 'worm tongue'), commonly known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other
Anteater
Phylum of worms with a flexible cuticle
species are free-living, feeding on microorganisms, but many are parasitic. Parasitic worms (helminths) are the cause of soil-transmitted helminthiases
Nematode
In ants, social conflicts, sex conflicts, or caste conflicts can exist. These conflicts occur within the same colony or supercolony at various levels:
Social_conflict_in_ants
Species of ant
look after the colony and reliant on ants of another species, Formica, to undertake these tasks. The parasitic ants are known as "dulotics" (from the Greek
Polyergus_mexicanus
Type of organism
An obligate parasite or holoparasite is a parasitic organism that cannot complete its life-cycle without exploiting a suitable host. If an obligate parasite
Obligate_parasite
Species of ant
known in Brazil as formiga-de-fogo 'fire ant', formiga-vermelha 'red ant', or formiga-lava-pés (lit. 'maundy ant'), is one of more than 185 species in the
Solenopsis_saevissima
Genus of flies
known as ant-decapitating flies due to their parasitic larval stage. An egg is injected by the female fly into the shoulder joint of an ant worker. Soon
Pseudacteon
Genus of fungi
in Costa Rica are "better suited" to invade and induce their parasitic effects on the ant colonies (specifically from the Attini tribe and genera Atta
Escovopsis
Species of ant
parasitic ants native to Argentina and Uruguay . The young queens of the species invade the nests of other species, such as the red imported fire ant
Solenopsis_daguerrei
Species of butterfly
similar methods of parasitizing the host ant: they act as parasitic "cuckoos" within the ant nest and feed upon the ants' regurgitation. This is compared to
Phengaris_rebeli
Type of bird
Ant followers are birds that feed by following swarms of army ants and take prey flushed by those ants. The best-known ant-followers are 18 species of
Ant_follower
thus getting infected. Gamergate (type of ant) Honeypot ant Wheeler, William M. (1910): "The effects of parasitic and other kinds of castration in insects"
Mermithergate
Species of ant
biology of the arboreal fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex cornutus and behavioral interactions with the social-parasitic ant Megalomyrmex mondabora.", Insectes
Megalomyrmex_mondaboroides
Cultivation by ants of plants and animals to provide useful products
Agriculture and domestication are practices undertaken by certain ant species and colonies. These ants use agricultural methods and are known as one of the few
Agriculture_in_ants
Common Australian ant
The meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus), also known as the gravel ant or southern meat ant, is a species of ant endemic to Australia. A member of the genus
Meat_ant
Species of ant
Myrmica karavajevi is a workerless, socially parasitic ant species: it is widely distributed across Europe (Ukraine, European Russia, Belarus, Moldova
Myrmica_karavajevi
Family of birds
channel-billed cuckoo, at 630 g (1 lb 6 oz) and 63 cm (25 in) is the largest parasitic cuckoo. Generally, little sexual dimorphism in size occurs, but where
Cuckoo
Šilhavý studied the ants of the Třebíč area. In 1933 he wrote his first research paper on harvestmen. In 1937 he described a new parasitic ant species Strongylognathus
Vladimír_Šilhavý
Organism that lives with its host and kills it
six main evolutionary strategies within parasitism, the others being parasitic castrator, directly transmitted parasite, trophically transmitted parasite
Parasitoid
British entomologist and behavioural ecologist
environments such as the impact of Argentine ants on seed dispersal. She has worked on ants, looking at a parasitic ant species which evolved from and parasitises
Seirian_Sumner
Species of ant
this and other parasitic ants with no worker caste may have altered their genome to arrive at a workerless state. In comparison to ants with a full complement
Pogonomyrmex_colei
Genus of ants
strictly South American genus of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae, commonly called tocandiras or giant Amazonian ants. These ants are generally less well known
Dinoponera
Species of ant
lampra". AntCat. Retrieved 30 April 2016. Witek, Magdalena; Barbero, Francesca; Markó, Bálint (2014). "Myrmica ants host highly diverse parasitic communities:
Myrmica_lampra
Subfamily of beetles
Emilio Balletto; Simona Bonelli (2015). "The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle's Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0130541. doi:10.1371/journal
Ant_nest_beetle
(whale lice) Cymothoa exigua (tongue-eating louse) Amblyoponinae (Dracula ants) Bed bugs Culicidae (mosquitoes) Calyptra (moth) (vampire moths) Hippoboscoidea
List_of_parasitic_organisms
Species of ant
of parasitic ant, in the genus Mycocepurus, native to Brazil. Described in 2010, the species is a workerless and obligate parasite of the related ant Mycocepurus
Mycocepurus_castrator
Species of fungus
beneficial saprophytic role. Including the parasitic Escovopsis microfungi or micromycetes this means a leafcutter ant colony may in fact be a symbiotic relationship
Leucocoprinus_gongylophorus
Group of insects
ISBN 978-0-8133-8615-7. Brues, C. T. (1919). "A New Chalcid-Fly Parasitic on the Australian Bull-Dog Ant". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 12 (1):
Wasp
Symbiotic relationship
Ant–fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen between certain ant and fungal species, in which ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as
Ant–fungus_mutualism
List of characters appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
(portrayed by Abby Ryder Fortson in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, Emma Fuhrmann in Avengers: Endgame, and Kathryn Newton in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A–L
Characters_of_the_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe:_A–L
German entomologist
the slave-making ant Strongylognathus testaceus was discovered by him in Weilburg in 1850, and the workerless socially parasitic ant Myrmica atratulus
Adolph_Schenck
Genus of epiphytes
five ant-plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, the others being Anthorrhiza, Hydnophytum, Myrmephytum, and Squamellaria. Myrmecophytes, or ant plants
Myrmecodia
The effects of parasitic worms, or helminths, on the immune system is a recently emerging topic of study among immunologists and other biologists. Experiments
Effects of parasitic worms on the immune system
Effects_of_parasitic_worms_on_the_immune_system
Species of ant
ant found in Northern Australia. Parasitic depredation has been observed from Phoridae flies. https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Aenictus_aratus#Castes AntWiki
Aenictus_aratus
Medical condition
Gastropod-borne parasitic diseases (GPDs) are a group of infectious diseases that require a gastropod species to serve as an intermediate host for a parasitic organism
Gastropod-borne parasitic disease
Gastropod-borne_parasitic_disease
Associated populations of species in a given area
Davies, N.B.; Bourke, Andrew F.G.; de L. Brooke, M. (1989). "Cuckoos and parasitic ants: Interspecific brood parasitism as an evolutionary arms race". Trends
Community_(ecology)
Species of butterfly
fusca is a parasitic butterfly primarily found in East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. It is a "cuckoo-type" parasite of the ant Camponotus japonicus
Niphanda_fusca
Species of harvester ant
the stable populations of these ants. P. badius may also be infected by the deadly Myrmicinosporidium durum, a parasitic fungus which causes the integument
Pogonomyrmex_badius
Species of ant
tending ants find pupae infected with Metarhizium brunneum, a parasitic fungus. The tending ants then bite into the cuticle of the pupa and spray it with antiseptic
Lasius_neglectus
Superfamily of wasps
morphological similarities with relatives within the order Hymenoptera, including ants and bees. Ichneumonoidea contains a great deal of morphological diversity
Ichneumonoidea
Genus of fungi
with an ant, killing it and then growing its fruiting bodies from the ant's head and releasing its spores. To accomplish this, infected ants are stripped
Ophiocordyceps
incidental host ingestion of raw fish, squid, cuttlefish, octopus Roundworm – Parasitic pneumonia Ascaris sp. Ascaris lumbricoides Intestines, liver, appendix
List_of_parasites_of_humans
Passerine bird family found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America
suggesting that the birds' relationship was in fact parasitic. This has resulted in behaviour by the ants in order to reduce kleptoparasitism, including hiding
Antbird
Genus of fungi
are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasitic on other fungi. The generic
Cordyceps
Genus of flowering plants in the broomrape family
declining. Abbate, Campbell (January 2013). "Parasitic Beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana): A Possible Ant-Pollinated Plant". Southeastern Naturalist. 12
Epifagus
Species of insect
species of ant belonging to the family Formicidae. It is native to Europe and Northern America. It is primarily subterranean and socially parasitic. It can
Lasius_mixtus
Species of ant
rufibarbis. Blood-red ants, F. sanguinea, are facultative slave-makers, meaning colonies can live either alone or be parasitic. This allows them to be
Formica_sanguinea
Infraorder of insects
Aculeata is an infraorder of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which
Aculeata
Species of ant endemic to Australia
colonies, where they use several galleries constructed by the ants. The parasitic ant M. inquilina may attempt to enter M. regularis nests to establish
Myrmecia_regularis
Tribe of ants
Fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) comprise all the known fungus-growing ant species participating in ant–fungus mutualism. They are known for cutting
Fungus-growing_ants
Pain scale for insect stings
stings, and finishing at 4 for the most painful stings. Only the bullet ant, Paraponera clavata, was given a rating of 4, although later versions of
Schmidt_sting_pain_index
world of the series also includes fantastical beasts such as the Chimera Ants and the Five great calamities. Voiced by: Rica Matsumoto (1998 film), Junko
List of Hunter × Hunter characters
List_of_Hunter_×_Hunter_characters
Genus of wasps
Kapala is a genus of parasitic wasps in the family Eucharitidae, found primarily in the neotropics, and associated with ants. K. terminalis K. floridana
Kapala_(wasp)
Superfamily of insects
drinking the body fluids of ant larvae. An ant guards its aphids Ants tending aphids Ant extracting honeydew from an aphid Ants tending aphids and collecting
Aphid
Protected area in Hampshire, England
invertebrates associated with the warm sandy habitat, including the parasitic ant Sifolinia karavajeva, and the grayling and the silver-studded blue butterflies
Kingsley_Common
Species of wasp parasitic on ants
insect of the family Eulophidae. It is parasitic on the pupae of Camponotus floridanus, the Florida carpenter ant. Up to 21 H. floridensis wasps may develop
Horismenus_floridensis
Species of butterfly
are fed the regurgitations of nurse ants (just as other ant brood), a process called trophallaxis. This parasitic method is known as the "cuckoo" strategy
Phengaris_alcon
Evolution of a new species from an ancestor in the same location
This may be an early step towards the emergence of a new species. Some parasitic ants may have evolved via sympatric speciation. Isolated and relatively homogeneous
Sympatric_speciation
Species of carpenter ant
V., & Camlitepe, Y. (2015). First record of the South European rare parasitic ant species Camponotus universitatis Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in
Camponotus_universitatis
Topics referred to by the same term
bluebottles in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand Blue ant, a species of large solitary parasitic wasp Centaurea cyanus, the cornflower Graphium sarpedon
Bluebottle
Fictional comic book characters
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Power_Broker_(character)
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