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Japanese Ant Color Image Database - by Japanese Ants Database Group
Java - Non-Java - Frames - Reasonably Well OrganizedThis I believe IS the best Ant Site on the internet! This site has two main features. The first is a online copy of Gakken's Encyclopedia - a Great General Ant book - written for kids. The second section is the Japanese Image database itself. In this database is listed with pictures all kinds of species which are found in Japan. Many are similiar to species found all over the world. This internet tomb is structured as follows: |
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Introduction and User Guide(Copyright) |
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Introduction to Myrmecology |
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Terminology |
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Castes[Worker, Queen, Male], Direction, Structure, Head, Thorax, Pedicle and Gaster, Pilosity, index |
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Gakken's Photo Encyclopedia "Ants" - Cover Page |
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Introduction |
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Credits |
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Forward |
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Table of Contents |
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How to Read This book - Icon legend key. |
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Ant Meals |
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4-9 |
Sweet foods, Seeds, Insects, Carrying Food in Jaws, Carrying Food in Gaster(Stomach), Sharing Food |
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Ant Fights |
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10-13 |
Detection, Attack, Protection, Weapons, Non-Fighting species |
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Ant Enemies |
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14-15 |
Weak if Alone, Ant Lion |
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Ant are Farmers too! |
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Aphids, Scale bugs, Lycaenid butterfly larvae |
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Ant body! |
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Is strong?!, Legs have hooks at ends. |
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Ant Nests |
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Ant Mating |
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Preparation(swarming), Flight, Queen finds/builds new home. |
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First Brood |
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26-29 |
Egg laying, Queen tends first brood, 60 days and 6 Steps to workers, Enlarge Nest, Caring for Larvae and Pupae |
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Ant Family |
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30-32 |
Workers, Usually one Queen and no males. Ants black and white at birth |
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Winter |
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32-33 |
Nest Entrance Closed, how they survive winter, Year in the life of an Ant Colony |
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Ant Species |
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262 in Japan. Largest and Smallest, Various Species |
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Ant Mimicks |
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Termite, 8-legged jumping spider, velvet Ant |
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How to Catch Ants |
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42-44 |
A single Ant (large or small), Many Ants (bait), In wood and Catching a queen. |
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How to Keep Ants |
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45-48 |
Bottle or Flower dish. Good and Bad soil., Soilless horizontal Glass ant terrarium design, Soil Vertical Terrarium., Plaster, Wood Nest(for species which live in wood), Moving ants, Keeping Queens, Make them Tunnel. |
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Guidance for individual study of ants |
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How many species can you find, What do they eat, How to Preserve, When do they work?, How do they collect food? And how do they walk?, How fast do they walk. Marking individual ants to study them individually., , How much honey can a ant gather? How much do they weigh? How many workers in one nest. |
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Japanese Image Database |
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Taxonomy |
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Search System |
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About the Project |
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Links and other Related information |
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Dr. Hirotami T. Imai's checklist of Australian Ants - It's contents are simply images used for taxonomic purposes of various Australian ant species. I believe this checklist will be incorporated into the Japanese Database proper. Right now it lives on Dr. Imai's WebServer. Thanks to Dave for pointing this out. |
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Myrmecology.org - Java and Non-Java (Frames) - Well organized - One of the preimere sites with a fair amount of ant Information including Colony Founding, foraging, nests, observation, artifical nests - how to build - types, ant anatomy, bibliography/FORMIS, microscopic images, General Info about Ants. Has message board, mail list archive - Egroups, chat room (Java Required), and a lot of links |
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AntColony.org - Java and Non-Java - Well organized - The following information is available: Ants in the News, TV Listings/Events, Photomicrographs, snapshots, a bit of history, Natural Ant Control, and of course a egroups message board. This site predominantly seeks to provide information regarding raising ants. Though many of the links on this site go to other sites listed here. The ones unique to this site are Humidity, Water. They also have a page where you can sell/trade/buy ant colonies as well as a list of locations where you can view a live colony.. If you can't find it there you can check their links as well.
Finally they have some nice articles on |
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The Ant Farm - Java and Non-Java - Bit hard to navigate - Another site with (correct me if I'm wrong Ant) mostly links to other sites, and general ant fun stuff. I think most people use the Message board to talk about ants. I don't see a lot of locally created information mostly lot of good and Diverselinks. The Chat Room - JAVA REQUIRED is mostly dead. Make a reservation on the message board if you want to talk to Ant. Also the Reading Room - which has tons of links to many ant related items (General, Technical, Extermination/Pest, Ant Games, Ant Farms, Parables, Stores, Poems, & Songs, Sight Seeings, Cartoons, Jokes, Movies, Personal pages). Ant also has a moderate picture gallery. Here is a link with his Site Map. |
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Checklist of the Ants of Michigan (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) - Java - Non-Java - Seeing as I'm located in Ingham/Clinton County this has a nice list of ants found in various areas in Michigan. Hmmm. Maybe in my hunting I'll get lucky and get to add to this information. No images. Perhaps I will have to fill this one in with some nice images.. |
Images and Identification |
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Japanese Ant Color Image Database - by Japanese Ants Database Group
Java - Non-Java - Frames - Reasonably Well OrganizedThis I believe IS the best Ant Site on the internet! This site has two main features. The first is a online copy of Gakken's Encyclopedia - a Great General Ant book - written for kids. The second section is the Japanese Image database itself. In this database is listed with pictures all kinds of species which are found in Japan. Many are similiar to species found all over the world. This internet tomb is structured as follows: |
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Genus Image Search (by frequency) - This is a nice page if you know what the ants looks like but you need to try to identify the species name. |
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Taxonomic list of Species - If you know the species your looking for by name you can look here. |
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Taxonomic list of Species - If you know the species your looking for by name you can look here. |
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Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - Java and Non-Java - Has some odd javascript in top page. of Cowling Arboretum and McKnight Prarie. This site is a collection of images and data relating to ant Identification and distribution in the Midwest US region. Generally beyond the fact that this site has some good additions to images of various species the fact it has general info on ant identification as well as collecting makes it interesting and useful. |
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Project Summary |
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A list of species in the collection |
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Primary list and distribution of the ants of Minnesota |
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Table of species per subfamily per state. |
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Identification Guide to the ant genera of the Midwest USA |
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Preparing and Pointing Ants: A Crash Course |
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Formicidae: key to subfamilies, couplet 1
- this is a nice beginners guide to ant identification. |
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Identification guide to the ant genera of Minnesota. |
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Dolichoderinae |
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Formicinae |
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Myrmicinae |
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Ponerinae |
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Image database of Midwest USA ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - This is the link to the actual database of iamges. One note I have is that there is no scale in those images and few have other information (size etc.) But this is better than nothing. |
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SOCIAL INSECTS WORLD WIDE WEB - SIWeb - Has a new online image gallery of a number of species. Here is a link to the first database and the second. The first has images and the second various information. I'm still searching this archive. |
Message Boards |
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Ants Message board - Not sure about login (my browser didn't like it) - Created - ?? - Perhaps 1-3 messages/day |
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Myrmecology.org Message board - Log in not required. - Recreated 2000.10.20 - Averages about 1 message/day |
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Antcolony.org Message board on E-Groups - Requires user to log in - Created 2000.01.13 - Averaging about 1 message/day |
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Myrmecology Society on E-Groups - Java - Non-Java - A lot of nice images provided by people to the list. Seems to be less travelled now. Perhaps 1-2 messages/week |
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AntCam Message board - Requires user to log in - Created 1999 - No traffic - very dead.. |
Ant Farms |
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Build an Ant Habitat. Step-by-step instructions including illustrations. A great poor man/kid's ant farm. I used to build these when I was a kid. Materials required - 1 quart mason jar, Soft drink can, Black construction paper, Tape, Sand, Dirt and ants from an ant hill, A piece of sponge, Food scraps. Nice way to have your own first ant farm really cheap. |
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Build your own Plaster/Gypsum Ant Terrarium (Farm). Step-by-Step instructions including pictures on how to build your own 6"x6"x3/4" Plaster/Gypsum Ant Terrarium (Farm). This is a little more advanced for most kids but with adult help it is doable. Make sure to test your plaster water mix ratio before pouring!! Too thick and it'll harden too fast. |
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Build your own Wood Ant Terrarium (Farm). Step-by-Step instructions including pictures on how to build your own W2 style Ant Terrarium (Farm). Adult supervision and woodworking tools required (I hope to simplify these instructions this year (2003) - MrAnt). |
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Ant Rearing. Another interesting method using a dirtless nest using a plastic shoebox, test tubes, cotton, foam brush, fluon (or light household oil), black paper. Included is a bit of information on food and feeding, water requirements, care, handling, and other concerns (queen, Precautions, Special considerations) |
Commerical Ant Farms |
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AntCam - Professional Ant Farms and Accessories
Location - US - will ship anywhere in the world.
Terrarium sizes vary from 12x12"(W2), to 16x20"(W1), ask for custom made. Listed products include foraging areas, tubing, claustral cells, etc. All products have over 30 years of real world experience built into them!
AC-16x20-W1 $50, AC-12x12-W2 $40 
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Your ad here. Feel free to contact me directly to inquire about listings for your Ant Farm products. Fees vary depending on extent of listing (whether images and prices are to be included or not. |
Cams |
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Ant Cast Static Images or Video - Java Only! - Here is The Natural History Museum's Ant Cam on the web. The unfortunate thing is the image part of the site is java based. Hence if you don't have Java you won't be able to see anything. |
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Steve's Ant Farm - Well it seems they actually have a live ant colony but IMHO all one can make out are dots moving around. There is no real information on ants here. They do have a Movie - which I couldn't play on IE5 on win98.. A links page which really is limited - eventually those links will all be available here with comments. A PR scrapbook which shows the site in Wired in 1995 (they were the first).. |
TV Programs |
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PBS Date Aired 2000.05.16.2100 EST
Little Creatures Who Run the World - A great video which discusses the diversity in the Ant Kingdom. Online Transcript of the show Order video $19.95 1-800-255-9494 |
Simulation/Games |
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Artificial Ant Hill - Java required Pretty crude but a interesting start. Requires a Java enabled browser. |
Equipment/Supplies |
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Intel® Play™ QX3™ Microscope Features include: - Detachable base
- Magnifications of 10x, 60x, 200x
- USB interface
- Top and bottom lighting
- Low price $99 or less - KMart $62?
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Intel Play QX3 Microscope Review - Tom's Hardware - Very good review which points out the pro's and cons of this beast. Also they have three images 10x, 60x, 200x there using a ant which show what can be accomplished with this microscope with an ant as the subject.
Intel Play QX3 Microscope Review - by Rudolf Baumueller - Another Review with lots of excellent images. One nice one of a leaf cutter ant.
More reviews or information - YahooUsing the Intel Play QX3 Microscope - by Jim Harper - Nice article discussing the QX3. |
Extermination |
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Terro - The also have a extermination FAQ which discusses Termites and Ants. |
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Controlling Ants and Termites - Termites and Carpenter Ants, Warning signs, Remedies, Professional treatment. General Advice for Prevention, contacts for more information. |
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Natural Pest Control - Immediate Help Natural Ant Control. Much of the text was taken from a book(?): The invisible Gardner by Andy Lopez |
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General discussion links on extermination. Started from this thread: Ants Ants Ants and I'm not having a picnic"
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