Ant nest beetles (subfamily Paussinae) or paussines, some members of which are known also as flanged bombardier beetles, are a large subfamily within...

abdomen to permit better control over the direction of discharge. Ant nest beetle Aneshansley, D.J.; Eisner, T.; Widon, J.M.; Widon, B. (1969). "Biochemistry...

makes the ants act as if the caterpillar is one of their own larvae. The caterpillar is then taken into the ant nest where it feeds on the ant larvae. A...

ants forage simultaneously over a limited area. Another shared feature is that, unlike most ant species, army ants do not construct permanent nests;...

mimics of ants. The mimicry allows them to live unharmed within ant nests, some beetles even marching with the aggressive Eciton burchellii army ants. The...

their habitat, but also due to the threat of predators, the ants are active outside their nest for only about ten minutes per day. The twin pressures of...

entomologist Frederick Smith in 1858. The meat ant is associated with many common names due to its appearance, nest-building behaviour and abundance, of which...

The black garden ant (Lasius niger), also known as the common black ant, is a formicine ant, the type species of the subgenus Lasius, which is found across...

bring the leaf fragments back to the nest. Majors, the largest worker ants, act as soldiers, defending the nest from intruders, although recent evidence...

Caroline; Chamorro, Maria; Schöller, Matthias (2015-12-17). "Leaf beetles are ant-nest beetles: the curious life of the juvenile stages of case-bearers (Coleoptera...