Friday, January 17, 2014

A ninja ant slave identified in USA - Midi Libre

The Temnothorax pilagens favors stealth and a great economy of means.

Temnothorax pilagens favors stealth and a great economy of means. (DR)

new ant species was recently identified in the eastern United States by German biologists.

It captures some of his cousins ??to enslave them by using infiltration techniques … worthy of ninjas. A new species of ant has recently been identified in the eastern United States by German biologists.

She was christened “pilagens”

Temnothorax This species of the genus, which includes several hundred species of small ants living in trees or on the forest floor, was called “pilagens”, from the Latin “robber” because it raids launches on anthills other species for their slaves.

But unlike the famous slave Amazon ants, who can deploy up to 3,000 troops on the ground for their raids, the Temnothorax pilagens favors stealth and a great economy of means.

It only two other species of ants near his elect domicile in nuts or hollow acorns that serve real castles: thick walls and single entry of one millimeter in diameter, easy to defend.

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