Definition: 1. Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers. 2. A small insect that lives in highly organized groups. There are many types of ant .
Use 'ant' in a sentence:
1. And she wouldn't have known this at the time, but the ants use the leaves to farm fungi underground to feed their developing babies.
2. If you put a stone in the way of an ant, it will go around, over, under or on top, without stopping, until it finds a way to get where it needs to be.
3. Ants store up food against the winter.
4. The Nature Conservancy has declared war on a multitude of invasive species here, from sheep to plants to the aggressive Argentine ant.
5. Ants swarmed up out of the ground and covered her shoes and legs.
6. She had ants in her pants ever since she won that ticket to bermuda.
7. "In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night," she wrote in the description.
8. They make experiments with ants.
9. Every so often the kitchen would be invaded by ants.
10. The ant is a social insect.
11. His industry and persistence suggest that he was an ant in a previous incarnation.
12. The image, which also contained novel descriptions of ants, fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it.
13. When the virtual trees are big enough, Ant Forest will plant real trees somewhere in the world.
14. In fact, when it comes to the art of war, ants have no equal.
15. In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.
16. When Ph.D. student Quentin Willot shaved an ant with a tiny scalpel and put it under a heat lamp, its temperature jumped.
17. Do you play Ant Forest?
18. Out of beams and cracks came troops of beetles, ants and spiders.
19. For the Saharan silver ant, crawling from their underground nests into the sun's brutal rays to hunt for food, this is the perfect time to seek lunch.
20. If an ant finds an outstanding hole—such as the inside of an acorn or a rock crevice—it recruits another scout to check it out.
21. From the very beginning, Stuart Leslie Goddard, a.k.a. Adam Ant, knew he was going to be a star.
22. When Ph.D. student Quentin Willot removed the hair from an ant with a tiny knife and put it under a heat lamp, its temperature jumped.
23. The mild winter has created the ideal conditions for an ant population explosion.
24. But in the same drawing, she incorrectly lumped together army and leaf-cutter ants.
25. Therefore, the planned introduction into that region of ant flies, which prey on Loma ants, would benefit public health.
26. He listened, and heard an ant-king complaint: "Why cannot folks, with their clumsy beasts, keep off our bodies?"
27. A dove heard his cries for help and threw him a leaf, which helped the ant float back to the bank.
28. Ant societies existed in something like their present form more than seventy million years ago.
29. When an ant finds food, it produces a pheromone that will lead others straight to where the food is.
30. Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.
31. When one ant bumps into another, it sniffs with its antennae to find out if the other belongs to the same nest and where it has been working.
32. The root of this dead tree has been gnawed away by ants.
33. They all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill.
34. As Gordon discovered during her research, there's no one ant making decisions or giving orders.
35. For animals their size, ants have been astonishingly successful, largely due to their wonderful social behavior.
36. In California, a lack of genetic variation in the Argentine ant has allowed the species to spread widely.
37. Merian noted how the ants took the leaves below ground to their young.
38. Hoelldobler and Wilson's magnificent work for ant lovers, The Ants, describes a supercolony of the ant Formica yessensis on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido.
39. A very aggressive species of blank ant, the Loma ant, which has recently invaded a certain region, has a venomous sting that is often fatal to humans.
40. There are an extremely large number of ants worldwide.
41. The ant is eating leaves.
42. Ants and flies are insects.
43. Subsequent ant researchers have focused on external prompts for behavior.
44. He was waiting for the results of the elections, restless as an ant on a hot pan.
45. One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke.
46. Even the lowly cricket and ant cling to life, let alone a human being.
47. In the dry season, it could be attacked by another species of ant.
48. What this little wood ant is planning to do with this microchip is unkonwn, but how appropriate to say that he appears to have a scientific interest.
49. There is a clear division of labour in ants.
50. Have you ever stepped on an ant?
51. The kitchen was infested with ants.
52. For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax.
53. Miller visited a Texas gas company that has successfully applied formulas based on ant colony behaviour to "optimise its factories and route its trucks".
54. A biologist at Stanford University showed me that nothing an ant does makes any sense except in terms of the whole colony.
55. They came up with a computer model, based on the self-organising principles of an ant colony.
56. When the lid of the nest box on an ant colony is raised, a whiff of dead cockroach wafts by.
57. Ants scurried around the pile of rotting food.
