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VIDEO CLIPS
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Ant
0.910MB View Movie
Virginia Tech's Entomology Department
Enlarged image of Ant Feeding
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Honey Bee
6.520MB MOV View Movie
Australia Advances - CSIRO Publishing
Stingless Bees
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Ant
7.570MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Popular belief is that the ants protect the host Acacia from herbivory. Well, this is not always true. These herbivores seem to have "a scent" that protects them from being attacked by the ants. The herbivores probably protect themselves from predators such as birds by 1) looking like thorns and from ants 2) by smelling like ants. Amazing!
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Ant
11.200MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Army Ants.
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Ant
3.500MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Bullet Ants (Paraponera sp.) have a nasty reputation.
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Ant
7.110MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Tropical rainforests are famous for the many fascinating symbiotic relationships that have evolved over millions of years. Acacia sp. trees have developed an intimate relationship with a a small 6 mm long ant (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea).The trees provide the ants with a place to live and eat while the ants enthusiastically protect the trees from herbivores and vines. In this clip, Pseudomyrmex ferruginea carefully attend to the Beltian Bodies of their host Acacia species.
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Ant
4.340MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Leaf cutters remove an incredible amount of biomass in tropical forests. Some of these ants are defoliating a leaf while another colony is moving up and down a tree trunk with their booty, Arenal Volcano, secondary forest.
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Ant
6.120MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
At Corcovado, an amazing amount of leaf biomass is removed daily from surrounding vegetation.
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Ant
2.410MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Check out the hitchhiker leaf cutter ants, Corcovado.
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Ant
4.420MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Author's frantic camera movement matches the frenzy of the Leaf Cutter harvest. Note the soldier ants moving with the column, Corcovado.
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Ant
7.110MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Pseudomyrmex ferruginea carefully attend to the Beltian Bodies of their host Acacia species - Part I
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Ant
3.820MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Pseudomyrmex ferruginea carefully attend to the Beltian Bodies of their host Acacia species - Part II
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Ant
6.960MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Ants at the sweet spot - nectaries, at the base of adjoining thorns, reward the ants.
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Ant
5.300MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Leaft cutter ants - why do the ants curl their abdomens beneath them? Could they be leaving Identification trails?
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Aphid
2.340MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Walking Aphids.
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Bee
4.080MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A perspective of the Blue Bees.
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Insect
20.280MB MOV View Movie
Australia Advances - CSIRO Publishing
Fear no weevil
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Insect
21.170MB MOV View Movie
Australia Advances - CSIRO Publishing
Fighting the Pea Weevil
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Mosquito
2.430MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Mosquitoes along the Mahagony trail (Everglades National Park).
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Hornet
1.370MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Hornets make some pretty elaborate and active nests. These wasps were found in SW Costa Rica.
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Wasp
7.740MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Ichneumonid Wasps laying eggs in a tree.
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Wasp
5.820MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Ichneumonid Wasps laying eggs in a tree.
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Wasp
7.860MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Ichneumonid Wasps laying eggs in a tree.
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Butterfly
1.280MB MOV View Movie
Dragonfly web pages - Miami University, Ohio
Monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis
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Caterpillar
0.690MB MOV View Movie
The greatest places
close-up of a catapillar on a leaf
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Beetle
0.880MB MOV View Movie
The greatest places
closeup shot of beetle crawling out from ground (sandy area).
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Termite
8.400MB MOV View Movie
Cal Termite Page
A Termite Movie
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Formosa Termite
1.020MB MOV View Movie
CNN
Termites threaten New Orleans' treasures
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Fly
3.400MB MOV View Movie
Cornell University
A fly on a 'treadmill'
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Skimming Stonefly
12.270MB MOV View Movie
Videos of skimming stoneflies, from James Marden's lab at Penn State.
Skimming Stonefly: six-leg skimming
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Skimming Stonefly
8.660MB MOV View Movie
Videos of skimming stoneflies, from James Marden's lab at Penn State.
Skimming Stonefly: sailing
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Skimming Stonefly
8.690MB MOV View Movie
Videos of skimming stoneflies, from James Marden's lab at Penn State.
Skimming Stonefly: hind-leg skimming
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Skimming Stonefly
12.770MB MOV View Movie
Videos of skimming stoneflies, from James Marden's lab at Penn State.
Skimming Stonefly: jumping take-off from water
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Skimming Stonefly
9.140MB MOV View Movie
Videos of skimming stoneflies, from James Marden's lab at Penn State.
Skimming Stonefly: rowing
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Skimming Stonefly
14.570MB MOV View Movie
Videos of skimming stoneflies, from James Marden's lab at Penn State.
Skimming Stonefly: four-leg skimming
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Skimming Stonefly
5.410MB MOV View Movie
Videos of skimming stoneflies, from James Marden's lab at Penn State.
Skimming Stonefly: swim-skim
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