Template:Did you know nominations/Technomyrmex albipes

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:09, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Technomyrmex albipes[edit]

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... that a single colony of the white-footed ant can consist of millions of individuals occupying several nests? Source: "often resulting in the formation of huge polydomous (single colonies that occupy more than one nest) containing millions of individuals" (Harris et al. 2004)."

Reviewed: Henry Wade (surgeon)

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 18:04, 12 June 2017 (UTC).

size, age ok, hook faithful to source (though one says 3 mill), cited, no copyvio, just strikes me as not an unusual fact (surely many insect colonies have a million critters?), looking at a source, something about them protecting pest mealy bugs or being transported in cut flowers sounds more interesting. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:33, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

@Casliber: Several million ants in a single colony seems quite impressive to me, and lots of species of ant protect sap-sucking insects, but we could have

ALT1 ... that white-footed ants protect red scale insects, a major pest of citrus in South Africa? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:50, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

yep, like it better. hook cited and faithful to source. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:01, 15 June 2017 (UTC)