harvester ants

• Texas Drought Will Harm Wildlife Habitat

CANADIAN, Texas - In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish - their flesh already decayed and feasted on by maggots - lie with their mouths open. Nearby, deer munch on the equivalent of vegetative junk food and wild turkeys nibble on red harvester ants - not their first choice for lunch.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 09, 2011

• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

... of flat-tailed horned lizards is composed of ants, with species of harvester ants (genera Messor and...

• FR, March 15, 2011
• Proposed rules
• Fish and Wildlife Service

• A Bad Conscience Really Can Bug a Guy

In general, I am opposed to killing. Murder should be practiced in moderation.

...And mosquitoes. I kill ants, too, even if they are outside minding their own b...We have red fire ants, large harvester ants, tiny thief ants, Argentine ants, sweet ants ...

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• July 10, 2011

• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

...The Owyhee harvester ant was recently identified as a potentially- impo...A native species, the harvester ants appear to favor areas dominated by nonnative annua...

• FR, May 10, 2011
• Proposed rules
• Fish and Wildlife Service

• Picnic pests or ecological marvels? Ants--who have roamed the Earth since the days of the dinosaur--are expert farmers, fearsome warriors, voracious meat-eaters, and omnipresent socialites. Most of all, however, they are virtually indestructible.

...Four of the species represented--Harvester, Carpenter, Honeypot, and Argentine--are commonly ...

• USA Today Magazine
• Vol. 133 Nbr. 2710, July 2004

• Quest for the Horny Toad: Oklahoma Filmmaker Seeks Funding for Film About Elusive Lizard

Securing the finances to get an independent film career off the ground can seem almost as difficult as hunting horny toads in Oklahoma, Stefanie Leland said. We haven't received a great deal of money yet, but we have a great deal of support," said Leland, the producer and director of Where Did the Horny Toad Go? and head of Jar of Grasshoppers Productions. "It's an issue that a lot of people are interested in but no one really understands.

... land development and the destruction of harvester ants, the horny toad's main food source. So the fi...

• The Journal Record
• September 10, 2010

• Ants Are a Gardener's Friend

By Adrian Higgins THE WASHINGTON POST

...The red-brown harvester ants arrived in a large jar, 40,000 in number and ...

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• October 07, 2010

• You Have Ants -- He has Answers

Ants: Identification always the first step I get more calls about controlling ants than all other pests combined.

...Harvester ants -- They make large round, flat or conical mou...

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• August 20, 2006

• Ant Farm Co-Inventor Dies at 97

LOS ANGELES - Milton Levine, co-inventor of the classic Ant Farm toy that gave millions of youngsters a sneak peak into the underground lives of insects, has died at age 97. Levine died of natural causes on Jan. 16 at an assisted-care facility in Thousand Oaks, his son, Steven, told the Los Angeles Times.

...Levine was watching ants during a Fourth of July picnic in Studio City in 1... got a penny apiece to grab red harvester ants from the Mojave Desert. "Ants work day and ni...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 27, 2011

• Ant Exhibit Offers Peek Into a Hidden World Learn to Appreciate Ants As Farmers and Architects

By Philip Kennicott The Washington Post

... actually a cast of a colony of Florida harvester ants. It was created by pouring hot, liquid alumin...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• July 05, 2009