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  • Ants are swarming around the base of a hollow tree while the queen ant is talking to a grashopper. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by J. Ogilby.
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
  • A fly is standing among ants swarming about the hollow base of a tree. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • Ant eye, photomacrography
  • Bullet ant proboscis
  • Bullet Ant, Paraponea cravat
  • Eciton burchelli/Eciton army ant
  • Ant head and mandibles, photomacrography
  • A porcupine ant-eater. Etching.
  • A great ant-eater. Etching.
  • Ant eggs and maggots etc.
  • Franciscus Ant. Christen. Lithograph by L. Torsch after A. Einsle.
  • Engraving of an ant in Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Bratislava: the International Danube trade show, 1924. Lithograph by Ant. Chlebeček, 1924.
  • South America: two great ant-eater feeding on termites. Coloured lithograph.
  • A long tailed manis (scaly ant-eater) standing on a rock. Etching.
  • Agriculture: a multi-bladed toboggan for destroying ant-hills. Engraving by S.J. Neele, c.1803.
  • Brazil: a puma attacks an ant eater in a forest with howling monkeys looking on. Coloured lithograph.
  • Six four-footed mammals, including sloths and ant eater. Line engraving by J. Scott after S. Edwards.
  • Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / scanning electron micrograph: Dr. R. W. Taylor ; text; Dr. R. W. Taylor.
  • Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / scanning electron micrograph: Dr. R. W. Taylor ; text; Dr. R. W. Taylor.
  • Ten insects, including an ichneumon, a gnat and a king, a queen, a labourer and a soldier ant. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
  • Creamalin : ant-acido gastico, ulceras gastricas y duodenales gastritis, crema coloidal de hidroxido de aluminio / Alba Pharmaceutical Company Inc. ; distribuido en Cuba por Azpeco Chemical Co.
  • Above, two tigers, a fennel stalk and flower, an ant, and a plant; below, a lantern fly, two finches, a coot and a moor-hen. Engraving by Heath.
  • Creamalin : ant-acido gastico, ulceras gastricas y duodenales gastritis, crema coloidal de hidroxido de aluminio / Alba Pharmaceutical Company Inc. ; distribuido en Cuba por Azpeco Chemical Co.
  • The principles of ante-natal & post-natal child hygiene / by W.M. Feldman.
  • The principles of ante-natal & post-natal child hygiene / by W.M. Feldman.
  • Vidoce Sanitas : vitamina B12 cristalizada : "es mas poderoso factor ant-anemia perniciosa conocido" : "modernas investigaciones estan revelando nuevas indicaciones para el empleo de la vitamina B12".
  • Vidoce Sanitas : vitamina B12 cristalizada : "es mas poderoso factor ant-anemia perniciosa conocido" : "modernas investigaciones estan revelando nuevas indicaciones para el empleo de la vitamina B12".