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		<title>The effects from wildfires to wood ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<input type="hidden" id="wppa_nonce" name="wppa_nonce" value="498befc2b2" /><script type="text/javascript">wppa_bgcolor_img = "";wppa_popup_nolink = false;wppa_fadein_after_fadeout = false;wppa_animation_speed = ;wppa_imgdir = "http://www.ant-maps.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/images/";wppa_auto_colwidth = false;wppa_thumbnail_area_delta = 7;wppa_textframe_delta = 27;wppa_box_delta = 14;wppa_ss_timeout = ;wppa_preambule = 3;wppa_thumbnail_pitch = 0;wppa_filmstrip_margin = 0;wppa_filmstrip_area_delta = 58;wppa_film_show_glue = false;wppa_slideshow = "Slideshow";wppa_start = "Start";wppa_stop = "Stop";wppa_photo = "Photo";wppa_of = "of";wppa_prevphoto = "Prev.&nbsp;photo";wppa_nextphoto = "Next&nbsp;photo";wppa_username = "38.107.179.224";wppa_rating_once = true;</script>More about wild fires Discussion &#124; Wildfires are an important factor in the distribution of wood ants (Formica rufa group). According to Red wood ants in North America (PDF) did wildfires play an important role in North America. In this region wildfires are a lot more common than in Europe, so this could effect the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Wood ants and wildfires</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wildfires are not common, but last two years three sites were hit by one. In 2008 a forest near Venlo, in 2009 two sites near Emmen: Emmerddennen and Kampervenen. How wildfires do effect wood ants is not sure. In North America it seems to be one of the reasons why Formica rufa is not so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can ants predict and survive a volcanic eruption?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that ants can survive large wildfires. But how about volcanoes? These natural disasters create so much heat and dust that practically all life will be toasted. Or not? The theory is  controversial, but the German geologist Ulrich Schreiber from the University of Duisburg thinks wood ants can predict volcanic eruptions. He describes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How fast can ants walk?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That depends on the temperature and the weight they carry. The graph shows how fast wood ants can walk with a specific temperature. You can see that between 27 and 31 degrees is the optimal temperature. Then the ants can walk fast and far. At 29 degrees, the optimal temperature, ants can walk 70 meters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ants, kings of construction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More amazing ant facts These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it&#8217;s just a summary. But when you are interested&#8230; feel free to look up the species hereor click the resource links below each fact. Do ants build levees and dikes? Fire ants build two centimeters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing facts about the ant&#8217;s society</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More amazing ant facts These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it&#8217;s just a summary. But when you are interested&#8230; feel free to look up the species hereor click the resource links below each fact. Largest super colony Linepithema humile, Argentine ants, build a super colony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What was the first ant on earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More amazing ant facts These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it&#8217;s just a summary. But when you are interested&#8230; feel free to look up the species hereor click the resource links below each fact. First ant One of the oldest known fossil ants  on earth  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing ant skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More amazing ant facts These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it&#8217;s just a summary. But when you are interested&#8230; feel free to look up the species hereor click the resource links below each fact. Jumping ants? Generally ants can not jump. Put there are some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing ant facts externals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More amazing ant facts These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it&#8217;s just a summary. But when you are interested&#8230; feel free to look up the species hereor click the resource links below each fact. Largest ant Giant ant (Formicium giganteum) was 1 to 3 cm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weapons of the ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it&#8217;s just a summary. But when you are interested&#8230; feel free to look up the species here or click the resource links below each fact. Deadliest ant (for human) The real killer-ant is the fire ants. In 1998 a [...]]]></description>
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