{"id":9360,"date":"2018-11-15T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9360"},"modified":"2018-11-18T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T19:22:51","slug":"skull-collecting-ants-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/15\/skull-collecting-ants-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Skull-collecting Ants Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/11\/16\/Florida-ant-species-collects-skulls-uses-chemical-weapons-to-kill-prey\/6381542389215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from UPI<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Florida ant species collects skulls, uses chemical weapons to kill prey<\/h1>\n<h2>&#8220;It&#8217;s really unusual for an ant species to display this much variation in chemical signature,&#8221; researcher Adrian Smith said.<\/h2>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/author\/Brooks-Hays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooks Hays<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/heuYzC12etg\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Florida is filled with strange creatures, but skull-collecting ants are near the top of the creepy list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1958, shortly after this ant was described as a species, scientists reported something weird about it,&#8221; <a class=\"tpstyle\" title=\"Adrian Smith\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Adrian_Smith\/?tps=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrian Smith<\/a>, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found dozens of decapitated heads of trap-jaw ants in the nests of the newly discovered ant species, <em>Formica archboldi<\/em>. Scientists theorized the species either uses the abandoned nests of trap-jaw ants or is specially equipped to hunt their ant relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, however, scientists haven&#8217;t studied the behavior of skull-collecting ants in detail.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2018\/11\/16\/Florida-ant-species-collects-skulls-uses-chemical-weapons-to-kill-prey\/6381542389215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at UPI<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from UPI Florida ant species collects skulls, uses chemical weapons to kill prey &#8220;It&#8217;s really unusual for an ant species to display this much variation in chemical signature,&#8221; researcher Adrian Smith said. By Brooks Hays Florida is filled with strange creatures, but skull-collecting ants are near the top of the creepy list. &#8220;In 1958, shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}