Dinoponera (GW69)
Our 69th Genus of the week is Dinoponera.Described by Roger in 1861.Subfamily: PonerinaeTribe: PoneriniOriginal Type species Ponera grandis, now a junior synonym of Dinoponera giganteaIf you want to...
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www.google.com/search?q=DinoponeraI saw a cool photograph: www.spiegel.de/wissenscha...56,00.html (with numbered labels on their backs). /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Ant (AntDude -- Your Host) from The Ant...
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And of course:Dinoponera look like big nasty beasts, but in my experience they are actually quite shy. I sat for an hour next to a nest entrance and they stopped coming out, they'd only come to the...
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here's cool article i read once about them:www.sasionline.org/antsfi...andry.htmlwish we could go to peru, but i heard it's better to go there june-november or so, when the rain is less.
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I've only seen them once, dead, to identify. What impressed me more was their weight!. They sounded when placed in the petri dish. Clonk!
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It seems appropriate that this genus follows on the heels of Pachycondyla. Dinoponera species look very much like "Pachycondyla on steroids". I collected them a couple of times in Brazil, once in a...
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Dr. Ant said:"...all the females are both fertile, and functional as workers. Many of them mate and contribute to the colony population, but there is a sort of dominance heierarchy among them, such...
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In fact, your rambling reprises some of the scientific discussion that has been going on about these questions over the last 30 years. I'm sure others could do a better job of summarizing the theory...
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DrAnt: i love getting technically lost in your ant speaking nirvana
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Since writing the above saying that multiple individuals contributing to colony reproduction in Dinoponera, I recently read that in D. australis at least, only one female is a functional queen, even...
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For those who read French, here's a link to an article (with English abstract), about Dinoponera quadriceps, indicating that only one female is a functional reproductive in its colonies, just as in D....
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www.antstore.de/gallery/g...n/029.htmlThose ants are sure huge. Big to cover half of a human hand! /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Ant (AntDude -- Your Host) from The Ant Farm's Message Board.| |o o| | \ _ / The...
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