<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : ants : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2009, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : ants : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Ants More Rational Than Humans?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our &#8211; multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed &#8211; selves. This is not the case of humans being &quot;stupider&quot; than ants. Humans and animals simply often make irrational choices when faced with very challenging decisions.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/129030/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/129030/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Chocolate Covered Ants]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ingredients &#8211;<br/>100 Live Black Ants (avoid red ants, their too spicy)<br/>1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped out<br/>2 Egg Yolks<br/>1 Tbsp. Sugar<br/>1 tsp. Butter, melted<br/>12 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23269/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23269/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby Fire Ants Play Dead When Attacked]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ants from an attacking colony will come up to inspect them, and they&#8217;ll be curled up just like a dead ant. Then moments later they uncurl and walk away.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58563/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58563/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Ants will protect your computer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modeled after the workings of a real ant colony, scientists have created 'digital ants' that can protect your computer from viruses and worms.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135197/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135197/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[From Ants! Natures Secret Power ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ants! I understand they are also good chocolate coated.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82423/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82423/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Butterflies trick ants into raising young]]></title><description><![CDATA[The butterflies deposit their larvae on marsh gentian plants where exploring ants find them, identify the chemical coating, and take the butterfly larvae back to the ant colony and feed them until they grow up and leave...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45957/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45957/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferocious ants bite like a bullet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trap-jaw ants bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight. Uninvited visitors to a nest of trap-jaw ants can expect a vicious response.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/19/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/19/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Study reveals how ants talk to each other]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next time you see an army of ants scurrying around, bear in mind that they may be following orders.<br/><br/>For scientists have shown that the insects talk to each other and are more intelligent than anyone ever realised.<br/><br/>They discovered that ants communicate by stroking a natural 'washboard' on their abdomen with a body part that resembles a plectrum.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/97943/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/97943/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Move over fire ants -- here come needle ants]]></title><description><![CDATA[The name alone is enough to induce a shudder: the Asian needle ant.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/84224/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/84224/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants fitted with radio transmitters for scientific study]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tiny radio transmitters were fitted to ants by scientists to study their house-hunting habits.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108914/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108914/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Lapse of Ants Eating A Gecko]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bunch of ants devour a dead gecko from flesh to bone in a matter of a hours. Pretty cool time lapse.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/65315/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/65315/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Come celebrate - Get whipped by clowns and showered by fire ants!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I couldn't tell where this video was actually taking place but it is a pretty bizarre annual festival. Some guys dressed like clowns run through the streets whipping people with sticks with festivities culminating in a shower of fire ants! Sounds like fun huh?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11279/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11279/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Do ants have low self esteem? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have been studying how ants behave in colonies and have found that they willingly plug &quot;potholes&quot; with their bodies, testing the holes first to see what size ant is needed, then allowing the colony to march right over them for the greater good!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21585/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21585/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA['Stench of life' prevents ants from being buried alive ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life really stinks for Argentine ants. New research shows that while alive, the ants produce two odoriferous chemicals that prevent their compatriots from immediately carting their bodies away to the 'morgue'.<br/>*word of the day...Pupae*]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/112309/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/112309/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Tired of potholes? You can do like the ants do..]]></title><description><![CDATA[Army ants tired of potholes take one for the team, throwing their bodies into rough spots to make a smoother road for their sisters.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21626/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21626/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ant-Mugging Flies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unusual behavior of a group of kleptoparasitic flies in South Africa. They lay in wait for ants, and mug them, literally stealing food from their mouths!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/114677/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/114677/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle]]></title><description><![CDATA[A flood hits a fire ant colony in the Amazon jungle. An amazing chance to see footage on how the species has adapted to water to protect their queen.<br/><br/>Embedding doesn't work. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Click here</a>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81504/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81504/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarantulas, snakes, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem. &quot;You don't want to wade in this water,&quot; state Health Services Commissioner David Lakey said. &quot;You don't want to play in this water. You want to stay out of this water.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/70196/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/70196/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazonian ants decide sex is overrated]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/107221/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/107221/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting Back Against Fire Ants]]></title><description><![CDATA[These destructive little varmints cause 6 billion dollars worth of damage a year in the USA alone, not to mention their bites burn like the poisonous flames of hell. Now scientists fight back with an ant-specific virus.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19409/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19409/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>