The World of the Harvester Ants
The native red ants of Texas, favored prey of the endangered Texas horned lizard, are but one of many New World ants known as harvesters. The two genera Pogonomyrmex and Ephebomyrmex range from southern Canada to southern Argentina and the western half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti).Harvester ants are generally noted for their habit of building large gravel mounds in the center of huge clearings, for harvesting the grain of favorite grasses, and for their fiery stings. Some early naturalists believed that harvesters planted their favored grasses around their mounds -- a claim that, though mistaken, could be imagined to be true…
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- ISBN: 978-0-89096-815-4
- EAN: 9780890968154
- Produktnummer: 9582529
- Verlag: Texas A & M Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.5 cm x D2.5 cm 621 g
- Auflage: New
- Reihenbandnummer: 23
- Gewicht: 621
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