I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Solomon then lifted the ant above the valley, but the ant said it was not fitting that Solomon should sit on a throne while the ant remained on the ground.

Darwin noted that some species of slave-making ants were more dependent on slaves than others, and he observed that many ant species will collect and store the pupae of other species as food.

ACS sends out a large number of virtual ant agents to explore many possible routes on the map.

Each ant probabilistically chooses the next city to visit based on a heuristic combining the distance to the city and the amount of virtual pheromone deposited on the edge to the city.

Here each ant is an autonomous unit that reacts depending only on its local environment and the genetically encoded rules for its variety of ant.

If an ant were to crawl along the length of this strip, it would return to its starting point having traversed the entire length of the strip ( on both sides of the original paper ) without ever crossing an edge.

Solenopsis ( ant ) | Tropical ants devastate crops on Hispaniola.

Alternative and complementary algorithms include evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, simulated annealing, Gaussian adaptation, hill climbing, and swarm intelligence ( e. g.: ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization ) and methods based on integer linear programming.

Many other Hymenoptera other than bees consume pollen as adults, though only a small number feed on pollen as larvae ( including some ant larvae ).

Most predatory caterpillars feed on eggs of other insects, aphids, scale insects, or ant larvae.

Sails set in other positions, or only in special circumstances, have a variety of other names, for instance: a triangular sail set on a stay might be called a staysail, or jib if the stay in question runs to the prow or bowsprit ; sails set either side of square sails to increase sail area in light winds are called studding-sails, qualified by the side and the plain sail name ( such as " port topgallant studding-sail ", but more likely to be pronounced " port t ' ga ' ant stun ' sl "); a gaff sail set aft of the mizzen mast may be called a Spanker or Driver.

Pollination in which nectar or pollen ( food resources ) are traded for pollen dispersal ( a service ) or ant protection of aphids, where the aphids trade sugar-rich honeydew ( a by-product of their mode of feeding on plant sap ) in return for defense against predators such as ladybird beetles.

When the tree is ready to produce flowers, the ant abodes on certain branches begin to wither and shrink, forcing the occupants to flee, leaving the tree ’ s flowers to develop free from ant attack.

: How does the ant get it on?

The dendrochronologist faces many obstacles, however, including some species of ant which inhabit trees and extend their galleries into the wood, thus destroying ring structure.

This advertising campaign showed an ant trying to get past a large bear by shouting " Excuse Me ", however the bear did not pay attention.

Gould, however, correctly stated that there was no evidence at all to suggest that any of the British ant species he knew hoarded grain, and for this reason he faced much criticism from the established church.

This is unusual, however, because the Southern fire ant does not eat or inhabit bark or fallen timber.

There are, however, fewer than 12 species of ant.

Removal is difficult, however, as their jaws are extremely strong, and one can pull a soldier ant in two without it releasing its hold.

In the rainforests of the western Amazon, however, a little-studied ant species rivals the leafcutters in its ability to destroy vegetation.

His appetite seems to save the day as he floats after the chips, eating them, but he manages to fly into an experimental ant farm, letting the ants loose in the shuttle.

The spacecraft was carrying an ant colony to see if they could be trained to sort tiny screws in space, but were released by Homer by accident.

It is not known if this ant ever produces a highway.

A further extension of Langton's Ants is to consider multiple states of the Turing machine-as if the ant itself has a color that can change.

In William J. Mann's novel The Biograph Girl ( 2000 ), Mann asks the question, " What if Florence Lawrence didn't die in 1938 from eating ant poison, but is 106 and living in a nursing home in Buffalo, New York?

Severe allergic reactions to fire ant stings, including severe chest pain, nausea, severe sweating, loss of breath, serious swelling, and slurred speech, can be fatal if not treated.

Wood ants typically secrete formic acid ; F. rufa can squirt the acid from its acidopore several feet if alarmed, a habit which may have given rise to the archaic term for ant pismire, and by analogy its American equivalent piss-ant.

The spiders walk on only the three rear pairs of legs, and if they encounter an ant during their forays into the nest territory, they touch their front legs to the ant's antennae in the same way as another ant would with its own antennae.

If they have already captured an ant, they then offer that towards the challenging ant, which inspects it and behaves towards the spider as if it were another ant carrying a dead conspecific away from the nest ( a common behaviour among ants ).

# Having completed its journey, the ant deposits more pheromones on all edges it traversed, if the journey is short ;

I also wish Beckett to have the ant farm provided he promises not to eat any of the ants My faithful bodyguard Butler is of course entitled to his generous severance package and is under no obligation to stay on but it would be greatly appreciated if he renewed his contract and remained in the employ of the Fowl family.

These ants are not hard to control, and most ant killers will solve problems, especially if controlled as soon as the problem is noticed.

Here are some examples of pepatah: dalam laut dapat diduga, dalam hati siapa tahu ( we can assume the depth of the sea, but we cannot assume what is in people's hearts ) teaches very clearly about the danger of assuming what is in people's hearts, for this knowledge can only be obtained by asking the people concerned, not by assuming ; ada gula, ada semut ( where there is sugar, there is ant ) teaches the law of causality, in which an effect can be inferred if there is a cause ; malu bertanya, sesat di jalan ( if you are shy of asking questions, you will get lost in your way ) teaches the importance of asking questions in the process of seeking after knowledge, and the like.

Ants carry away the seeds so better be sure that there are no ant hills nearby.

In pueblos or villages, there are also more exotic dishes, cooked in the Aztec or Mayan style ( known as comida prehispánica ) with ingredients ranging from iguana to rattlesnake, deer, corn fungus, spider monkey, chapulines, ant eggs and other kinds of insects.

So Solomon placed the ant upon his hand, and asked her whether there was anyone in the world greater than he.

The ant replied that she was much greater, as otherwise Yahweh would not have sent him there to place her upon his hand.

Note that locally an embedded surface always has two sides, so a near-sighted ant crawling on a one-sided surface would think there is an " other side ".

Papunya, in Australia's Northern Territory is named after a honey ant creation story, or Dreaming, which belongs to the people there, such as the Warlpiri.

It is notable for the presence of the rare ant, Formica candida, sometimes called the shining bog ant, which was discovered there in the early 20th century by Horace Donisthorpe.

Two studies in Costa Rica and on Barro Colorado Island ( BCI ), Panama, found that there are approximately four bullet ant nests per hectare of forest.

The Qur ' an recounts that, one day, Solomon and his army entered a valley, where there were many ant colonies.

As the name wood ant implies, many Formica species live in wooded areas where there exists no shortage of material with which they can thatch their mounds.

They are also notable in that they contain many unusual ant and spider species, and were frequented by the entomologist Horace Donisthorpe, who collected extensively there.

However, during the climactic battle sequence in the Los Angeles sewers, there is a brief shot of one ant moving in the foreground with its side removed, revealing its mechanical interior.

This is a reference to Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach in which there exists a sentient ant colony, with the ants acting as neurons.

For instance, “ there is a dog on a log ” is a common answer which would earn the team one point, while “ I can step on an ant, but an uncle I can ’ t ” involves word play, a creative response that is worth 3 or 5 points.

), a thief ant which was recorded there several times by Horace Donisthorpe.

Kirman supposes that there are N ants and that each switches randomly between piles with probability ε ( this prevents the system getting stuck with all at one pile or the other ), and imitates a randomly chosen other ant with probability δ. Eichengreen, Hale and Mody ( 2008 ) focus on the transmission of recent crises through the market for developing country debt.

All species are members of the true ant family, Formicidae, but there are several groups that have independently evolved the same basic behavioral and ecological syndrome.