By the way, all ants found on ground are female. The ant in this picture is a virgin female. She is calling male to mate with.

• Do you know about ants in Japan? I know the most excellent database on the Net. It is Japanese Ants Color Image Database.

• If you want to study more about ants, you had better get the database for social insects FORMIS.

• Have you ever observed ants nest in grass bottle? I have never.

• When I looked for the sites about ants by word search, I met sites of antarctica or else. Please someone get such troubles out of my way.

• Visit Department of Behavioural Physiology and Sociobiology (Hšlldobler Lab.) in Wuerzburg

• Visit Gordon Lab in Stanford

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