The complex housed an estimated 307 million Japanese red wood ants, including some 306 million workers and about 1.1 million queens.
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Greenheart wood is often sought for construction projects in parts of the Caribbean, where wood ants are problematic in conventional pine wood construction.
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Dundreggan, lying on the north side of Glenmoriston to the west of Loch Ness, is home to declining species such as black grouse and wood ants.
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Head counts of the wood ant, one of the most voracious predators of the beetle, confirmed that its numbers had dwindled in areas where smog was worst.
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For 28 years, he has studied, counted and even lived among the hundreds of millions of Japanese red wood ants that dwell on this strip of shoreline.
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The original " pissant " is any of a certain group of large ant species, commonly called " wood ants, " that make mounded nests in forests throughout most of Europe.
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These beetles are highly specialised myrmecophiles, tricking the ants into caring for them, and one of about 125 species of invertebrates that rely on spending part of their lives in and around the nests of red wood ants.
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The oak woods in the remote Glaism na Marbh valley are a stronghold for " Formica lugubris Zett . ", a wood ant species that is rare both in the Killarney woods and in Ireland as a whole.
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Some 92 plant species and 119 vertebrates of national, European and world significance are found here, these include the deer roe, marten, hazel dormouse, black stork, golden eagle, wood grouse, Rosalia longicorn and the wood ant.
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An experiment was conducted by Moli to perceive how the wood ant diet can affect nest mate recognition . " Formica rufa " was housed in a lab under an artificial diet for either seven or 30 days in the presence of homo-colonial queens.
