The name army ant (or legionary ant or marabunta [1]) is applied to over 200 ant species in different lineages. Because of their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as "raids", a huge number of ants forage simultaneously over a limited area.

2010年11月30日 · It forms armies of half a million ants that march from temporary nests or ‘bivouacs’. For three weeks, their legions issue forth from, and return to, the same bivouac, while they wait for their...

2013年3月2日 · Invading ants make up just handfuls of the more than 12,400 described ant species in the world, says Jes Søe Pedersen, an associate professor at the Center for Social Evolution at the...

2023年2月6日 · Our study documents the vast spread of alien ants globally while highlighting avenues for more targeted biosecurity responses, such as prioritizing the screening of imports from regions that are diversity hotspots for species of high invasion capacity and improving the detection of cryptic alien invertebrates dwelling in substrates.

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2021年5月25日 · The researchers discovered that the ancestral state to army ants' mass raids is the rather different-looking group raids that their non-army ant relatives perform. The evolution of mass raids from group raids happened tens of millions of years ago and the transition from group raids to mass raids is perfectly correlated with a massive increase ...

2005年8月1日 · Roughly 150 species of army ants have been discovered in the New World alone, but the subterranean and nomadic nature of the majority of those ant species makes field research difficult.

2024年4月11日 · In the Panamanian forest, researchers track swarms of carnivorous army ants and the birds that follow them. A new documentary reveals a glimpse of life, and research in the Neotropics

Boasting a sensory system of 2 million antennae, this colony of Army Ants are a formidable proposition for anything alive which may cross their path. These dynamic insects, despite being blind,...

2018年4月26日 · Army ants will kill thirty thousand insects in one of these campaigns. They are the Mongol hordes of the entomological world. As far as I can tell, the ants Susan and I see are Eciton burchellii, although ant taxonomy can break a strong man’s heart.