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	<title>What's That Bug? &#187; Ants</title>
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		<title>Kleptoparasitic Flies from Australia pilfer an Ant from an Ant Hunter Spider</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<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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		<title>Edible Leafcutter Ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edible Leaf-Cutter Ants
A little while back I received a package from an amazing person in Texas whom I met indirectly through www.Bugguide.net . This spectacular individual had agreed to try to harvest these winged alates [which emerge within a pretty specific time-window, kind of like cicadas but far less numerous].  Though at first it [...]


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		<title>Carpenter Ant</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2007/05/08/carpenter-ant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[want tio know  just want to know what type of ant this is it is an inch long thank you allan mckee Lewiston,ID
 
 Hi Allan, This is a Carpenter Ant in the genus Camponotus. 





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		<title>Reproductive Flying Weaver Ant</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2007/01/04/reproductive-flying-weaver-ant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weaver Ant from Thailand: Queen (or Male ?) Here&#8217;s a queen from the colony (or a male, not sure). Note how it has a green body (like weaver ants in Australia) unlike the workers. Regards Sean 
 
 Hi again Sean, Thank you for your wonderful additions to our site. 





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		<title>Weaver Ant from Thailand</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2006/12/30/weaver-ant-from-thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oecophylla (Weaver Ant) Hello Bugman I thought your viewers may enjoy this picture of what I guess is an Oecophylla (Weaver Ant) having a chew on my finger. These little bundles of joy are probably the dominant predators in our garden give or take the odd snake. We live in Thailand. Regards Sean
 
 Hi [...]


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		<title>Peppermint Oil Repels Ants</title>
		<link>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2006/08/01/peppermint-oil-repels-ants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2006/08/01/peppermint-oil-repels-ants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bugman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peppermint Oil for Ants Hi! I absolutely love your site and cruise it just for fun. I was thrilled to death to find a suggestion about using peppermint oil to deter ants. It works great! They won&#8217;t cross the lines that I painted and just the fumes alone have driven the rest away. And it&#8217;s [...]


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