| 1. | Invertebrates include damselflies, dragonflies, glow-worms and wood ants.
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| 2. | The Japanese wood ant defends itself easily.
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| 3. | The red wood ant is inactive in winter and the immature beetle leaves its nest.
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| 4. | The Hokkaido supercolony is populated by a relatively common species, the Japanese red wood ant.
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| 5. | Wood ants ( Formica paralugubris ) often incorporate large quantities of solidified conifer resin into their nests.
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| 6. | _The longest living ants _ wood ant queens _ are known to live more than 20 years.
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| 7. | The woodland runs into Birdsedge and contains more than 75 Hairy Northern Wood Ant ( Formica lugubris ) nests.
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| 8. | Of the two, Annagarriff is thought to be home to the only colony of Scottish wood ants in Ireland.
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| 9. | The woodlands are notable for their lichens, heath fritillary butterfly, red wood ant colonies, dead wood invertebrates and ancient pollards.
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| 10. | When spring comes it leaves the ant nest and, now sexually mature, seeks out the nest of a red wood ant.
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