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#1 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted February 25 2020 - 8:15 AM

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This is an article about the atta roach that hitches rides on Atta queens, and lives off the fungus gardens. However, I'm posting this mostly for the great quote below.

 

Flight of the Cockroach

 

https://biodiversity...f-the-cockroach

 

'Zach [Phillips] notes that this tiny roach lacks a common name, but is happy to suggest one. “The Khaleesi roach,” he says, noting that the fictional heroine from Game of Thrones also takes a ride on the back of a much larger flying creature. In this case, a dragon. However cool riding one must be, Zach still feels leaf-cutter queens are much cooler. “While a single dragon can destroy a city, a single leaf-cutter queen can give birth to a city,” he says. “In general, insects are more impressive than imaginary creatures.”'


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Formiculture Journals::

Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.


#2 Offline AntsDakota - Posted February 25 2020 - 3:41 PM

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If only more people could see the truth in this.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version





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