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	<title>What's That Bug? &#187; Ants</title>
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		<title>Texas Leaf Cutter Ant</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/24/texas-leaf-cutter-ant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Leaf Cutter Ant &#8211; Atta texana (Buckley)
August 24, 2009
Found a pile of leaf confetti at the base of a Shumard Oak in my yard, followed the trail for about 20 yards then it went under the fence. There were no ants, found out they operate at night and took some pictures this morning around [...]


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		<title>Flying Ant from Thailand</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/20/flying-ant-from-thailand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/20/flying-ant-from-thailand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it a male or a queen ant?
August 19, 2009
Found on my patio crawling on leaf of silver morning glory. Now I know why suddenly there are ants in the house after 3 years. Best educated guess is that they came from soil and/or plants I purchased. Worker ants are dark brown or black with [...]


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		<title>Flying Ant, but which one???</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/09/flying-ant-but-which-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/09/flying-ant-but-which-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katydid wasp party?
August 9, 2009
When I went out onto our deck this morning, I was greeted by a swarm of these small black insects. They seem to be congregating around our grill. After determining they didn&#8217;t seem to be intent on stinging us, my wife and I pulled out the flyswatters and began clearing the [...]


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		<title>Winged Carpenter Ant</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/08/winged-carpenter-ant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stung in my Bed!
August 8, 2009
I was crawling into the bed for the night, and something sharp poked me like a needle jabbed into my foot. I lifted up my sheets and a black flying thing hovered over my head. It was kinda like a carpenter ant that flys and stings, but I didnt get [...]


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		<title>Carpenter Ants devour newly emerged Annual Cicada</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/07/29/carpenter-ants-devour-newly-emerged-annual-cicada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/07/29/carpenter-ants-devour-newly-emerged-annual-cicada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carpenter Ants Devour Emerging Cicada
July 29, 2009
Dear Bug Man:
Thought you might be able to use one of these photos in your &#8220;food chain&#8217; category. My son called me over to an old oak tree, to see a group of carpenter ants eating what he thought was a large caterpillar. When I got there, I could [...]


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		<title>Kleptoparasitic Flies from Australia pilfer an Ant from an Ant Hunter Spider</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/03/21/kleptoparasitic-flies-from-australia-freeloader-flies-pilfer-and-ant-from-an-ant-hunter-spider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kleptoparasitic flies
Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:37 AM
Hi guys,
I got this photo of tiny flies trying to get to the ant captured by this jumping spider. Apparently they are Milichiidae (Diptera, Schizophora) some of which are kleptoparasitic of spiders, some specialising in ant snacks such as this one. The spider is a female Salticid, Zenodorus [...]


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		<title>Meat Ants devour Scarab Beetle in Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/12/11/meat-ants-devour-scarab-beetle-in-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/12/11/meat-ants-devour-scarab-beetle-in-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food Chain Meat ants v Scarab beetle
Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Our Australian meat ants, Iridomyrmex purpereus, are omnivorous and quite as happy eating the flowers off my zucchinis as any hapless critter that stays still long enough. Farmers will sometimes use a nest as a disposal system for animal carcasses. A nest may [...]


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		<title>Argentine Sugar Ant Question</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/10/28/argentine-sugar-ant-question/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/10/28/argentine-sugar-ant-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[big ant in line among smaller ants?
Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Hi,
Every summer ants find their way into my house, and I&#8217;ve noticed for the past couple of years that there&#8217;s often a single larger/longer ant among the line of regular smaller ones. Always just one though. Who is this guy &#38; what does [...]


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		<title>Mexican Edible Leafcutter Ant</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/08/11/mexican-edible-leafcutter-ant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/08/11/mexican-edible-leafcutter-ant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edible Insects:  Tasty Morsels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mexican Edible Leafcutting Ant (wingless) in Cuernavaca, Morales, Mexico
Hi!  I wrote you guys a few weeks back with these pictures, and i couldn&#8217;t figure out what kind of giant ants these were.  I&#8217;ve now shrunk the pics down a little to make them more email friendly, and I was just re-skimming your site [...]


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		<title>Edible Leaf Cutter Ants</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/07/10/edible-leaf-cutter-ants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/07/10/edible-leaf-cutter-ants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is this bug?  We woke up this morning to find our house completely infested with these, a couple of hundred of them. Their bodies are about one inch long.  They have four wings, the longer set being about two inches.  They seem to have stingers.  They were all sluggish when [...]


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