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		<title>HOW TO GET RID OF FLYING ANTS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is every tendency to control ants both the ones on flight and the crawling ones. Fortunately, flying ants problem do occur seldom in a year. Therefore, it is very crucial to get rid of them absolutely. To get rid of the flying ants, here are the requirements: Spray bottle Water A jar Honey Soap [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is every tendency to control ants both the ones on flight and the crawling ones. Fortunately, flying ants problem do occur seldom in a year. Therefore, it is very crucial to get rid of them absolutely. To get rid of the flying ants, here are the requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Spray bottle</li>
<li>Water</li>
<li>A jar</li>
<li>Honey</li>
<li>Soap</li>
<li>Aerosol ant spray</li>
<li>Borax</li>
<li>Nutra sweet packets</li>
<li>Ant pesticide powder</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Procedures:</strong></p>
<p>Have an understanding of the cause of the flying ants in your domain as you are aware that flying ants does not occur frequently. These ants are always on the flight when the weather is just suitable and local ant colonies swarm. At this period, the queen female will develop wings and fly in air along side with the male ants besides them. These ants travel some distance and they purposely move on flight in order to reproduce and establish a new colonies. As soon as the female has been mated by the male ants, the wings are removed and fall to the ground to look for the new colony that she can establish while the male fall and die. The flight period is just for a short while therefore, it is very essential to get rid of them in order to restrict their invasion later in future.</p>
<p>You can get rid of the flying ants in your house by killing the living ants that you come across with object or using newspaper to press it if and only if they a minute in quantity. When they have invaded your window, shut the window and ensure that they are smashed to death. But if they are plenty, use aerosol sprays directly to the direction of their invasion. You can even use soapy water with a spray bottle to eliminate them also.</p>
<p>Exterminate any colonies of flying ants found in your home so that the swarm ants will be permanently restricted from further production and thereby reduce multiplication.</p>
<p>Sprinkle powdered pesticide on their mounds.</p>
<p>Mix ½ teaspoon of honey, borax and NutraSweet and sprinkle on the mound that you see and by this reason the ants will carry poison back to their colonies underground and destroy the entire colony.</p>
<p>By these reason, the swarming will be permanently prevented from occurrence.</p>
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		<title>Ways Of Removing Large Black Ants Inside The House</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not wait until you begin to witness structural destruction before start eliminating large black ant in your home. Usually, large black ants in your home are in actual sense carpenter ants. As soon as you start noticing any kind of large or winged black ants around your house, start the process of destroying them [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do not wait until you begin to witness structural destruction before start eliminating large black ant in your home. Usually, large black ants in your home are in actual sense carpenter ants. As soon as you start noticing any kind of large or winged black ants around your house, start the process of destroying them to avoid major damage in your property. To do this, you will need ant killer, drill, boric acid and water.</p>
<p>Identify the hideouts of the ant nest. In case you are able to discover any from outside, the nest is simpler to destroy, mixed the hot water with ant killer, uncover the beneath stumps, decks and wherever rotting wood is located. Create artificial hindrance round about your house the application of commercial ant repellents. On the other hand, more drastic and effective control is required to get rid of large black ants residence in your home.<br />
Go after the trail for these unfriendly co-habitants, drop some quantity of honey on the ground and be ready to stay awake as you observe the ant’s movement. The ants will certainly be attracted tot eh honey and go back tot heir nest, just trail them to their nest.</p>
<p>Launch effective attack upon the nest. Having above 30 large ants within your house implies that a large colony is concealed within your house. If the ants are below 30, then it indicates that the nest is not too big. If by chance, the nest is reachable, ensure that you spray a pesticide into the entrance of the nest. Besides, Terro and boric acid are sweet baits can be dropped very close to the nest and this two are deadly baits for ants.</p>
<p>Inspect the walls inside your house. Dig up holes inside your wall for large nest so that you can eliminate the ants going there. Spray the holes with ant killer and also dust with a pesticide. Thereafter, seal up the holes.</p>
<p>Lay ambush for all the routes ants may be using to gain entrance into your house. To be double sure, put poison or traps close to the window sills, doors and electrical outlets.</p>
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		<title>STRATEGIES FOR KILLING ANTS USING HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is pretty simpler, secured and inexpensive to eliminate ants contrary to the premonitions of so many individuals. You simply cannot use any other chemical aside from dish detergent and borax or boric acid. Whereas, dish detergent mixture is beneficial as a rapid killing agent, borax works even as a lasting residual ant killer. Ironically, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is pretty simpler, secured and inexpensive to eliminate ants contrary to the premonitions of so many individuals. You simply cannot use any other chemical aside from dish detergent and borax or boric acid. Whereas, dish detergent mixture is beneficial as a rapid killing agent, borax works even as a lasting residual ant killer. Ironically, ants mistake this powder as food; hence the foragers will carry it to the rest of the ants in the colony. As they eat of it with the queen, they subsequently die without exclusion or remedy.</p>
<p>Virtually, every needed material to reliably eliminate the ants are either very close your residence or sitting patiently at all nearby department, discount, grocery or hardware store. Most importantly, this can be done without endangering your little children or pets to harmful pesticides. These required materials include:  spray bottle, spoons, Mason jar, screw driver, bottle caps dawn dishwashing liquid, borax or boric acid, honey and sugar.<br />
Having filled an empty plastic, spray bottle with warm water and include a healthy squirt of Dawn dish soap, shake it thoroughly to be well mixed. It kills ants upon touching and it is very effective.</p>
<p>Apply screwdriver remove a switch plate from each wall all the available rooms in the house.</p>
<p>With the application of plastic spoon, scoop up around half teaspoon of boric acid as you place the powder within the metal casing hosting the switch or plug unit. This is the usual routes of ants by which it invade the entire house. They certainly hurried across the powder several times to and fro, thereby feeding the rest with it. Go over the process once in 4 to 5 month for possible renewals.</p>
<p>Produce bait traps as a camouflage for feeding stations through the filling of many plastic bottle caps around halfway with borax. Let them be placed in all locations you have ever observed the movement of ants. These include the kitchen, bathrooms and laundering room.</p>
<p>Supposing you have noticed any effective mounds, produce your personal and friendly ant eliminator at the outer part of the house. Add around ¼ cup of sugar with same quantity of honey inside a mason jar. Let the mixture be heat inside microwaves or a pan of water over the stove until the sugar is melt and well mixed. Thereafter, gently sprinkle inside ¼ cup of borax spoon and stair well enough.</p>
<p>Spread 1 tablespoon of the honey procedure over effective ant mounds. The sweetness of the bait will begin to attract and keep eliminating the ants in no time, this include the queens and the whole colony.</p>
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		<title>STRATEGIES FOR CAPTURING A QUEEN ANT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the process of developing any ant habitat, you have the option of buying your personal ants or capturing them. In America, for instance, it is very unlawful to transport queen ants from one state to another. You can saturate your habitat will varieties of worker ants or obtain a queen. No habitat without a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the process of developing any ant habitat, you have the option of buying your personal ants or capturing them. In America, for instance, it is very unlawful to transport queen ants from one state to another. You can saturate your habitat will varieties of worker ants or obtain a queen. No habitat without a queen can exist for too long because it reduces as more and more ants die. On the other hand, any habitat that comprises of a queen increases and multiplies in population. </p>
<p>Catching a queen ant involves the following step by step guidelines:<br />
Identify an ant colony in the outer part of your house and observe the mating flights whenever drones and queens move away from the colony. Both drones and queens are characterized and identified by wings.</p>
<p>Watch out for the specific ants that go back to the ground and remove their wings following mating flight. Certainly those are the new queens because the drones die as soon as they complete the mating flight.</p>
<p>Capture one of the newly matured queens the moment it removes her wings and put her in your habitat. Following the addition of the queen to the colony, it can possibly take some weeks before you can notice the worker bees showing up on the ground surface.</p>
<p>It is suggestive that you obtain a queen ant for your own habitat by just capturing one within already established colony rather than hunting for a young queen by endless waiting. Turn rock and logs upside down till ant colony is discovered. Closely examine the ant with biggest thorax, this is certainly a queen. In addition, go ahead to capture many workers from her usual colony to ensure there are adequate ants in your habitat so that the queen can be looked after.</p>
<p>Search a not too big colony and uproot the whole colony with the aid of a shovel. Gently position this colony inside a bucket and examine thoroughly through the dirt in order to relocate the queen in addition to other ants to your habitat. You may find this strategy valuable and effective only if you have chosen to begin with an existing and operational colony.</p>
<p>It is strongly recommended that you put your captured ant inside refrigerator before transferring them into your habitat. This would ultimately reduce their body temperature and demobilize them momentarily; hence it becomes easier to safely transfer them without escaping.</p>
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		<title>TECHNIQUES OF REMOVING CARPENTER ANTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, carpenter ants penetrate your walls; damage the shape of the wood, leaving it wood shavings in forms of saw dust. Since this species of ant are very destructive, it calls for urgent treatments by keeping to the recommended technique. The required tools include the screw driver, honey, drill with 1/8 inch drill bit and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually, carpenter ants penetrate your walls; damage the shape of the wood, leaving it wood shavings in forms of saw dust. Since this species of ant are very destructive, it calls for urgent treatments by keeping to the recommended technique. The required tools include the screw driver, honey, drill with 1/8 inch drill bit and boric acid.<br />
Unveil the Carpenter ants:  Carpenter ants are very huge and also very dark in color. It is possible that you discover swarms of winged carpenter ants. The species of insects are characterized with relatively bigger than termites with 2 pairs of wings and bent antennas.<br />
Search out the specific locations of ants. Their habitat is usually in damp wood. As a result, they are commonly seeing close to the sinks, bathtubs badly covered windows or roofing leakages.<br />
Uncover the hideouts of their nest: This can be done by dropping honey around where these ants can be found in no time, they will circle round the honey eating and carrying some into the physical structure of your house. Trail their routes through the baseboards and walls using the end of screw driver even as you listen for a hollow sound. Similarly you may be hearing their scurrying as you tap along in case their nest is not far away.<br />
Ensure complete damage of the carpenter ant nests. Dig some hole of 1/8 inch inside the wall where the nest may be hidden. Pour boric acid inside these holes, this acid can be bought at your neighborhood stores. Let the drilled holes be a minimum of 3 feet from either side you can listen to the nest.<br />
Invite the experts if you still found carpenter ants some days following the treatment.</p>
<p><strong>Recommendations</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Repair all leakages which may serve as natural baits for carpenter ants.</li>
<li> It is most likely that you may be hosting uncountable number of colonies close to your home. Treating a single colony may be grossly inadequate.</li>
<li> Carpenter ants are usually very active in the evening; hence you can set time aside to watch their activities.</li>
<li> In addition, carpenter ants nest can be discovered in the outside within fences, wood posts or trees.</li>
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		<title>METHOD OF STOPPING THE INVASION OF ANTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not be surprised seeing hordes of ants trooping inside your house during a rainy day. You cannot really blame these intruders in their search for dry shelter, food and water. They also believe they should not be starved to death, hence they move searching for survival. The following are some of the requirements for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do not be surprised seeing hordes of ants trooping inside your house during a rainy day. You cannot really blame these intruders in their search for dry shelter, food and water. They also believe they should not be starved to death, hence they move searching for survival.</p>
<p>The following are some of the requirements for hindering the invasion of ants.</p>
<ul>
<li> Dishwashing liquid</li>
<li> Ant traps</li>
<li> Boric acid or laundry detergent</li>
<li> Dishwashing containers with sealable lids</li>
<li> Zipper-lock bags</li>
<li> Others include caulk, weather-stripping, duct tape or petroleum jelly.</li>
</ul>
<p>Trace the ant line to its origin. This source can be any or combination of window, molding crevice or floor cracks.</p>
<p>Create a short time hindrance at the origin using boric acid or even laundry detergent powder.</p>
<p>Clear whatever food the ants have eaten from and dump it inside a garbage can at the outer part of your home.</p>
<p>Supposing the ants have forcefully dominate the kitchen garbage can, carry the can out , hose down everything and thoroughly with dishwashing liquid and water.</p>
<p>Gather the foods yet to be discovered by the ants inside zipper-lock plastic bags or any plastic containers having gold lids. Alternatively, you can load your refrigerator with the food materials.</p>
<p>Do not forget that ants can find their ways into metal threaded covers on glass jars. Let the jars be tightly sealed inside zipper-lock plastic bags.</p>
<p>Let all food materials be well kept inside cupboards particularly honey, sugar, maple syrup grains, cereals cookies jams and breads.</p>
<p>As soon as you have protected the food, vacuum the ant line using some cornstarch to assists in suffocating them inside the bag. Again, you can use dishwashing liquid water and rag as you like it.</p>
<p>With dishwashing liquid and hot water, wash all traces of ant line and clear potential scent of their trail.</p>
<p>Cover up wherever the ants entered. These include caulk windows as well as cracks and weather-strip doors.</p>
<p>Trim all the tree branches they can be using as a channel into the house.</p>
<p>Examine the place in about one hour. Squash any scouting ants you see around to prevent another imminent invasion in the nearest future.</p>
<p>Apply ant traps comprised of boric acid so that the returning ants can poison the whole colony.</p>
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		<title>Thief Ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the mere fact that thief ants very tiny coupled with their prospects of nesting in almost unreachable places eliminating them could be a nightmare. Undoubtedly, virtually all pesticides will destroy these unwanted visitors provided they have physical contact with them. The truth is that until your house if fully invaded and infested, you may [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the mere fact that thief ants very tiny coupled with their prospects of nesting in almost unreachable places eliminating them could be a nightmare. Undoubtedly, virtually all pesticides will destroy these unwanted visitors provided they have physical contact with them. The truth is that until your house if fully invaded and infested, you may never be aware of their presence.</p>
<p>If you are not careful enough, you may be mistaken thief ants with pharaoh ants because of their similarities. White the thief ant is brownish or golden yellow as per colour it has a unique antennae with 10 segments and 2 segmented club. It is such a tiny ant which can be measured in the range of 1/32 of an inch to 1/16 of an inch. The major difference between thief ant and ant pharaoh ants can be spotted in their antennae and to discover this you required a functional microscope. Meanwhile, pharaoh ants have 2-segmented antennae having 3 segmented clubs.</p>
<p>Ideally, thief ant queens usually lay eggs on consistent basis. On daily basis, these queens lay average of 100 eggs. Between 15 to 30 days, the eggs become larvae and in high temperature periods, it takes around 21 days to pupate. Be informed that thief ants are so unique that always curl into ball shape after their death, no other ant is known for this attribute.</p>
<p>The behavior being displayed during the search of food is what actually brought thief ant its name. It has the habit of stealing food even in the nest of contemporary ant species. As if that is not enough, it goes as far as stealing ant larvae from the nest it finds no food. In addition, thief ants take pleasure in eating other varieties of food such as greasy foods, dead insects, diary products, highly rich food as well as honeydew. They make do with sweet foods in case they cannot find any other food. Their love for foods made up of high grease composition makes them be nicknamed as grease ants.</p>
<p>Their laziness to work or search for their own food makes them construct their nest very close to other species of ants so that they can easily steal food from them. Some of these places include below the bricks and stones, inside rotting wood, in the tree cavities and also within crevices of home foundations. Occasionally, they can build their nest inside house. Finding them could be very tasking if not impossible. All the same, you can search for them by be on the look out for the trail of food dropped by the thief ant to enable them find their way back to their nest.<br />
Ideally, you can find thief ants inside cabinets, woodwork, closets, trash bags, closets as well as over the windowsills. Often, they build their nest inside the hollows of windows sills as well as door frames or being electrical wall exits.</p>
<p>Best Way to Keep Off Thief Ant Infestation<br />
Maintain consistent cleanliness in your house. All ants including thief ants love dirty areas to hide and find food.<br />
Fix all the wear screens in the windows and doors without further delay<br />
Repair all wall openings or cracks in the foundation or around your home<br />
Do not leave behind any spills or leftover foods or drink. These include your patio where some grease from your hamburger can fall on the ground. Ensure that you clean it with paper towel. Failure to do this may be an open invitation to ant infestation or invasion.<br />
Always trim down the shrubs or branches of all trees with direct link to your house.</p>
<p>Method of Handling Thief Ant Infestation<br />
Scoop all the sighted thief ants wondering around your home using soapy sponge.<br />
Cover up every holes through the doors and windows to prevent the entrance of many more thief ants<br />
Ensure that you plug up the drains in your sinks and bathtubs and night fall.<br />
In case it goes out of hand, you may spray insecticide such as suspend Sc for rapid growth.<br />
If you notice that the thief ants are speaking in from the hollow walls, make a little hole inside the walls and insert a Tempo 1% insecticide inside the wall.<br />
MaxForce Fe Ant Bait is very rich in protein; hence you can apply it as bait.</p>
<p>In the final analysis, you must take a drastic step to identify their nest and subsequently destroy them. Unless you do this, killing one or two ant per time can best be described as temporal solution. If for any reason you are unable to discover their nest, why not invite the professional ant killers to help you out. </p>
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		<title>Jack Jumper Ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This specie of ant can usually be seeing in various parts of Australia and they are capable of causing some side effects on certain group of individuals. While many people little or no significant bodily reactions, a lot more develop anaphylaxis that has the potential of endangering life of the victim. To prevent any loss [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This specie of ant can usually be seeing in various parts of Australia and they are capable of causing some side effects on certain group of individuals. While many people little or no significant bodily reactions, a lot more develop anaphylaxis that has the potential of endangering life of the victim. To prevent any loss of life therefore, it calls for medical treatment with all urgency. Jack jumper simple infuse their venom through biting the sign while the stinger situated in their tail part to release venom.</p>
<p>Some of the symptoms of jack jumper and stings include:<br />
Localized swelling<br />
Hives<br />
Localized pain<br />
Localized redness<br />
Localized itching<br />
Facial swelling allergy symptom<br />
Eye swelling-allergy symptom<br />
Lip sweating-allergy symptom<br />
Watering eyes-allergy symptom<br />
Runny nose allergy symptom<br />
Flushing allergy symptom<br />
Anxiety allergy symptom.</p>
<p>The possible result of jack jumper ant sting as well as the inherent difficulties in the sting coupled with the potential results, chances of healing, ratio or percentage of survivors, the death rates and many more effects in the general stinging of jack jumper. Obviously, nobody can accurately predict the result.</p>
<p>FACTS ABOUT JACK JUMPER ANT<br />
Jack jumper ant is a huge species of bulldog ant. They are prone to jumping too soon at a slight provocation and that is actually where the name comes up. Usually, the workers are very black having yellowish mandibles, antennae as well as the downward part of the legs. Its head is a little bit wider than its length while the mandibles are not as long as the head. These mandibles are made up of 4 huge and sharp teeth having smaller teeth to fill the gap between every huge tooth. Again, the queen has identical color with the workers but bigger and sturdy.</p>
<p>Additionally, jack jumper can often refer to as hopper ant, jumper ant or jumping jack. The ideal length of the worker is between 10mm to 14mm while that of the given ranges between 14mm to 16mm. just like every other ants, jumper ant naturally inhabit in colonies. Collectively, the construe a mound nest of suitable sail or grivel. Besides, this nest can as well be built under a rock. Undoubtedly, jack jumper ants are both carnivore and scavengers. Insects and little invertebrates hunted by stinging with venom. Ideally, they can be found in South West Western Australia, Southern areas of South Australia Victoria, Tasmania, Eastern New South Wales in addition to South East Queensland.</p>
<p>Treatments being giving to jack jumper stinging is almost same as that of wasp or bee stings. Nevertheless, another program has already being developed with the aid of jack jumper own venom. The venom is gathered by sucking the ants up inside a dust buster; thereafter the ants are tidy up and then put in a customized box which passes on electric current through the base.</p>
<p>Ordinarily, most of the insects in Australia are harmless to humans. Many of the insects bite and sting only after a slight provocation in form of threat. Hence, you are strongly advised never to make attempt to touch them in order to guard again stinging. Personally, I don’t like creepy crawl kind of crister. As many as are planning in go to Australia for one reason or the other, ensure that you maintain distance from away from jack jumper.</p>
<p>Many a times, it may not be too easy to keep off from them. Do not make a mistake of relying on your heavy clothes you are wearing, jack jumper ants are capable of stinging and still penetrate books and gloves. If after all the prevention, you are still stung, do not hesitate to go for medical treatment immediately, regardless of what stung you.</p>
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		<title>Bulldog Ants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naturally speaking, bulldog ants creature known to be very violent in nature contrary tot eh sting of a bee, the sting of any bulldog ant can easily be removed from the victim. Meanwhile, it does not sting ones and stops rather it repeats its stinging more and more thereby increasing its nastics dose. Apparently, this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Naturally speaking, bulldog ants creature known to be very violent in nature contrary tot eh sting of a bee, the sting of any bulldog ant can easily be removed from the victim. Meanwhile, it does not sting ones and stops rather it repeats its stinging more and more thereby increasing its nastics dose. Apparently, this stinger is positioned in the abdomen. Similarly, the jaws of the ball ant workers are not harsh making it different from the rest of the ants. They are carnivores as well as feeding on things like honeydew from scale insects. At nightfall, the queen bull moves away from the nest in search of food in addition to improve on the food availability of the baby bull ants. From appearance, they have reddish head and thorax, the abdomen is however black. Their nest is usually built below the ground having very large tunnel systems. Ideally, it is easier to discover a bull ants nest through the mound of dirt having a big gap and possibly uncountable openings on top. As the dirt is freely littered very close to the mound, at least two bull ants called soldiers keep an eagle eye to make off potential impostors. Scientifically, these soldier ants are known as Myrmecia gulosa and it has an average growth of one inch long.</p>
<p>Supposing you are stung by the ants accidentally, there is availability of natural solution. In case there is a pig face ground cover growing very close to you, just take some leaves, twist out the juice over the stung position. Carefully rub it and you can be assured that you will no longer experience the pain the very moment. Unless the leaf juice is applied to the spot at that very particular time of stinging, anything short of this may render it effective. Hence, you are advised to go for a cream from the chemist in order to find relief from the swelling.</p>
<p>Most scientist have develop great interest in the behavior of bulldog ants for so long hence it is not surprising to discover that they are capable of lifting foods extremely bigger than their normal weight. Socially, their behavior is seeing to be most complicated across the globe. Their ways of communication include touching, smelling as well as consistently touching one another so that their nest odor can be passed along. Most ants are created with a pair of jaw, while the outer one is useful for carrying items as well as digging, the inner part is meant for chewing. Bulldog ants are helpful in the disposing of rotting plants in addition to dead animals regardless of its size.</p>
<p>Again, be reminded that the bulldog ant workers are characterized with a dark reddish brown head, thorax coupled with the first part of abdomen. Note also that the gaster is black having a metallic green or blue sheen. It consists of short yellow hairs over the head and thorax with longer hairs over the abdomen whiles the head evenly lengthy and wide; mandibles are really not as long as the head. These mandibles comprises of 12 or 13 teeth, meanwhile the 3rd, 5th, 7th in addition to the 10th teeth bigger and even wider than the rest. The queen is very identical with the worker but bigger and sturdy built. Even though males are almost same in appearance with the workers, yet they have black head as well as the first section of thorax.</p>
<p>FOOD:   The bulldogs are among the highly venomous ants worldwide. They feed on invertebrates including some little animals killed by their stinging venom.</p>
<p>BREEDING:  Bulldog ants commonly live in colonies; the nest could be hidden beneath the rock or inside the ground.<br />
RANGE:  A Bulldog ant is usually found in South East Queensland, Eastern New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania as well as South Australia.</p>
<p>Be informed that sting symptoms include local swelling, reddening and fever usually forming blister. The heart rate is raised higher while the blood pressure drops. Occasionally there may be few reported cases where the stinging bring about anaphylactic shock.</p>
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		<title>Gliding Ants</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many species of ants that inhabit in the tropical rain forest platform apply a kind of gliding otherwise known as directed aerial descent to trace back their home tree trunk anytime they accidentally drop from the branches of trees. Whenever a gliding ant drops, jump or displaced from a tree branch either by a moving [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many species of ants that inhabit in the tropical rain forest platform apply a kind of gliding otherwise known as directed aerial descent to trace back their home tree trunk anytime they accidentally drop from the branches of trees. Whenever a gliding ant drops, jump or displaced from a tree branch either by a moving monkey or breeze, it goes down directly some meter away. Almost immediately, it alters itself very fast positioning to the extent that its abdomen is directed towards the tree trunk. With this, the falling ant is invariably points the way by air in form of a steep glide and finally at the trunk.</p>
<p>WHAT MAKES THE RELATIONSHIP INTERESTING?</p>
<p> Understanding the gliding attitude of ants attracts attention and it is very important for so many reasons:<br />
It marks the introductory recorded instance of gliding flight of all living insect without wings. Besides, it is also the number one documented of deliberate backwards gliding found in any macro-organism.<br />
Undoubtedly, it beyond any human imaginations. No human including the biologists ever give it a thought.<br />
Again, this is a suitable instance of a novel adaptation to a solid selective pressure as well as parallel evolution. This attitude in question happens in non-identical groups of ants, the cephalotini and pseudomyrmecinae to be precise.<br />
At the time when a drastic but minimum and less standard research are prevalent, it is motivating to realize that mind boggling discoveries are still very possible by merely observing organisms in their habitat.<br />
It buttress the call and necessity for non-stop research in tropical forest umbrellas particularly studies by direct indicates that arboreal existence presents special tasks for several species.</p>
<p>METHOD OF IDENTIFYING THIS BEHAVIOR</p>
<p>Some of situation that can combine to promote this discoveries include:</p>
<p>Ants are very visible and excessive in tropical tree crowns.<br />
Any specialist such as biologist devoting valuable time to work 30m above the ground can potentially develop deep interest on the ways things are falling.</p>
<p>Can we call this a vital piece of the puzzle of the evolution of flight in insects? When compared to the rest of insects, ants are more complex lineage; get ant workers are wingless as a second attribute. Hence, gliding behavior being seeing in ants obviously has nothing to do with the evolution of flight. On the other hand, the discovery as well as our continuous research with jumping bristle tails and other basal taxa can potentially gives more insight over the evolution of flight in insects.</p>
<p>WHAT MAKES ANTS GLIDE?</p>
<p>Essentially, it prevents them from getting lost. Naturally, one of the duties of ant workers is the searching and bringing into nest food and other valuable materials. From all indications, the task involves a lot of risk. Be reminded that the day active ants in search of food are always at the mercy of lizards, birds or anteaters as well as torments and distractions from the other mammals passing along. In case any worker ants fall off the tree for any reason, there is a high tendency that it finds itself in unfamiliar terrains only to be swallowed by the predators. Any worker that missed its ways or get lost in the process of finding food is a loss to the colony. Therefore, selection must be in support of any trait which is against attacks on the workers. There is already a sticky feet being example and now gliding can be included.</p>
<p>ARE ALL ARBOREAL ANTS GLIDE?</p>
<p>Not exactly! This behavior has just been noticed mainly in arboreal species particularly the myrmicine tribe cephalotini as well as the sub family pseudomyrmecinae. All present, the field work is concentrating on species in the subfamily Formicinae and Camponotus species to be précised. Going by the data collected till date, all arboreal dolichoderines as well as non-cephalotine myrmicines are excluded from gliding.</p>
<p>WHAT IS THEIR METHOD OF GLIDING?</p>
<p>Even though the research is still on going, but we are pretty sure that ants apply visual cues for them to re-discover tree trunks in the process of falling. Besides, not too long, we indicate that they favor orient to whitish or shining-colored columns as they are very similar to their natural focus: lichen-covered trunks. We guess that the movements of the hind legs, abdomen and head are applied to direct the ant with the tree at same time modify the direction of the glide.</p>
<p>WHAT ARE OTHER GLIDING ANIMALS?</p>
<p>Popularly, flying squirrels sugar gliders as well as other mammals are known for this. In addition, some species of frogs and lizards similarly glide. In Asia tropical forests, many wonderful snakes do glide.</p>
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