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Whistling Thorn

The Spider and the Ant

January 16, 2019July 21, 2011 by dududiaries

Dear All – having been weighing and counting ants on the Whistling Thorns for some research work related to my PhD. There are a few alates around – these are the winged reproductive forms of ants… Each colony produces many hundreds, even thousands of alates that take off into the sky as part of a … Read more

Categories Ants, Ecology, Spiders, Whistling Thorn Tags Ants, dino j. martins, Kenya, spider, Whistling Thorn

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