what is natural predator of the african driver ants?
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A number of birds will follow driver ants and feed on them and what they stir up.  Perhaps the always common greenbuls and bulbuls.  I expect that agamas would be happy to eat them also.  Certainly several amphibian species.  As mentioned above, many mammals would probably feed on them if given the chance.  I suspect shrews and brush-furred mice should be added to the chimps and mongosses listed above.\n\nNote: anteaters are South American and aardvarks largely specialize on termites.
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Fire ants are heterotrophs or consumers. There are 266 species of fire ants including the Red Imported Fire Ant which is in the southern U.S. They feed on young plants and seeds.
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I know dead ants attract more dead ants, so I would think the same concept would apply to flies.
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All female ants have wings when they hatch. After they hatch, they take a maiden flight where they are met with swarms of male ants. She mates many times, then seeks out a nesting place to make a colony, breaks off her wings, and tunnels underground to start her colony. This is how you tell mated females from unmated females: the unmated females still have their wings.\n\nWhen an ant colony loses their queen, they will sometimes split into two or more colonies. It is not known how or why they select a particular larva, but the drones all begin feeding a single larva a special diet (NOT royal jelly - this is specific to bees, which are related to ants and have similar biology and behavior to ants). This special diet causes the larva to grow larger than others, and become a fully reproductive female (the other "females" in the colony are sterile - same as bees). Once this larva hatches, she mates, breaks off her wings, and becomes the new queen. \n\nIn many cases, several larvae will be fed the diet to become fully reproductive females, but only one will become queen of that colony, the others will go with the rest of the colony if it splits, or they will go on to form their own colony. As someone mentioned above, a queenless colony, on occasion, will meld with another colony that still has a queen. But as far as I understand, it is more common for the queenless colony to raise several new queens that will be dispersed where needed.\n\nThere is a lot of research going on right now with both bees and ants to figure out how this selection of a new quieen occurs and why it is so consistent. Also, how a queen (bee or ant) can mate during one flight in her entire life, yet produce viable eggs for some 20 years or so after...how does the male sperm stay viable within her for that long? This all has yet to be discovered.\n\nBees and ants are just the coolest insects and there's so much we have yet to discover about them!
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im taking a wild guess.  ant?  as in ant hill??
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The answer depends on what your definition of the "top predator" actually is, and whether you are refering to the entire continent of Africa or a specific country, i.e. South Africa.\n\nHowever, I suspect that the answer you are looking for is the Nile Crocodile.\n\n***************\n\n2nd Attempt :-)\n\nSo, if I'm wrong in my assumption that it is the Crocodile, then perhaps my first guess was correct and I should have said 'Carcharodon carcharias' - the Great White Shark.
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I'll take a shot.\n\nI would say a rabbit because they eat green vegetation which doesn't pack as much nutrients per weight as ants and termites do.\n\nBut that's all speculation. I should stick to answering questions about rocks.
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Prey specialization and the predatory behavior of two European ant-eating zodariid spiders, Zodarion germanicum and Zodarion rubidum, were studied in detail. The spiders were offered 12 ant species and seven other insects (termites, beetles, aphids, silverfish, flies, crickets and grasshoppers). Study spiders turned out to be ant specialists as they were able to subdue many ant species but ignored all other insects, except termites, which they attacked but rarely subdued. The best capture success was obtained with medium-sized ants (e.g. Lasius and Formica). The predatory behavior of the zodariid spiders involves an attacking and a handling phase separated by a period of waiting at a safe distance. The attacking phase consisted of a very rapid lunge from the rear, followed by a bite on the most extended ant leg. After an attack, the spider retreated to a safe distance, perhaps an indication that natural selection has favored such caution in the presence of an aggressive prey. The spider waited until the ant ceased moving. Such predatory behavior, which limits contact with the predator and prey, is clearly an effective means of handling a dangerous prey.\n\nYou can find one from \nAustralia,Czech Republic,Greece,France,Hungary etc...
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Okay, anther crazy one: leaf-cutter ants are not only well versed in agriculture, but they also emply the use of antibiotics.  The leaves that they take are not directly eaten.  They are taken into the moldy bowels of the ant colony, where they are allowed to grow moldy.  The ants subsequently eat that mold.\n\nWhen researcher tired to understand that mold better, they kept running into a problem.  Every time they took the mold cuture, it was rapidly over-run by a downy white mildew.  They were confused.  Then someone discovered that the ants working down in the fungus farm were covered with a white powedery appearance.  As it turns out, that white coating was a symbiotic organism which produced a sort of antibiotic that managed to keep the growth of the mildew down, hence protecting the fungus that the ants needed to eat.  By maintaining the symbiont, the antibiotics were able to help feed the colony.  Crazy stuff!
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Agalychnis callidryas prey on small insects.  I hope that is specific enough.  I could have said things that move.
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There is a great diversity among ants and their behaviors. They range in size from 2 to about 25 millimetres (about 0.08 to 1 inch). Their color may vary; most are red or black, but other colors can also be seen, including some tropical groups with a metallic lustre.\n\nAnts have colonized almost every landmass on Earth. They can constitute up to 15% of the total animal biomass of a tropical rainforest; in the Amazon the combined weight of the ants is said to be four times larger than that of the tetrapods in the same area. It has also been estimated that the combined weight of all ants exceeds the weight of mankind
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Predation: lion and gazzeles\nparasitism:humans and tape worms. \nhope i helped!
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Their main food is fruit (60%) \nYoung leaves (25%) \nFlowers and bark (10%) \nInsects, mainly ants, termites and crickets (5%) \nAnd the occasional egg.
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Rollie pollies are land-living crustaceans known as isopods. They breath with gills so the have to stay in low, damp spots. And spots like that are full food for 'em - they scavenge dead or decaying plants and animals, fungal spores, bacteria. Sometimes they'll nibble young plants.\n\n***************************\n\nThe answer below is wrong. Ant lion larvae are known as "doodle bugs" and can not roll up like rollie pollies (actually not all rollie pollie can roll up either). Ant lion larvae do sit at the base of a sand funnel to catch small insects but the adult ant lion is a large winged insect that looks something like a dragonfly. See the links below for  pics.
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Ant colonies will fight each other, and ants can tell if an ant is from another colony through the use of pheromones, so the ant cannot join another colony.  Ants are also dependent on one another for survival.  They protect each other, and communicate the location of found food by using pheromones.  Without it's colony mates, a single ant will probably starve to death or be killed by other ants or some other predator.
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ants. try not eating anything on your bed, you're leaving crumbs all over.
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ants are considered "ectotherms"...and thus take on the temp of the environment they are living in.  If it is warm, they are warm.  If it is cold, they are cold. (Cold blooded is an ancient term and outdated.)