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4 responses to “Coyote Peterson’s Overdramatic Experience With Bullet Ants”
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Here at The Daily Ant, we have a More Ants More Good policy. What this means in this case is that we believe it would be better if Coyote Peterson tried being stung by more bullet ants.
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[…] The leading hypothesis explaining canopy ant dominance is that the carbohydrate-rich diet of ants (from plant-produced sugar exudes to Hemipteran cattle) somehow promotes their success in the trees (let’s call it the Antkins Diet Hypothesis, the anthesis of the popular low-card diet). If the Antkins Diet Hypothesis is correct, then we should expect to see a correspondence between increases in carbohydrate use and some factor in a colony that would increase colony success relative to possible competitors. McGlynn and Parra test four specific mechanistic hypotheses in the omnivorous (and scary!) tropical ant Paraponera clavata (the infamous “bullet ant”): […]
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[…] blue ants, exploding ants, invasive ants, big-headed ants, other trap-jaw ants, ant queen heads, bullet ants, ant-controlling fungus, canopy ants, lazy ants, ant navigation, ant societies, ant parasitoids, […]
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