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In the U.S. view a small group—or cadre—of fierce red ants have taken power and are opposing the black-ant majority.

Ted points out a small patch in the grass where there are some red ants.

Or how leaf-cutter ants cultivate a specific type of fungus so precious it is carried by the queen when she starts a new colony.

Dr. Tanning assured me that these feelings were not just ANTS (“automatic negative thoughts,” in therapy parlance).

Then, a joke was rewriting the lunchroom menu to include "scrambled snails" and “fried ants.”

They destroy ants and spiders and other creeping things, so that Alila's mother never kills them nor drives them away.

The most destructive insects are the ants, and every variety of them that can hurt vegetable life is to be found here.

The solitary ants, on the contrary, manifest no special intelligence, and do not rise above the general insect level.

A few days later she was prouder still when they scampered this way and that, pecking at little bugs and ants.

Another poison is of a pale glue color, which is supposed by Stanley to be made of crushed red ants.

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On this page you'll find 177 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ants, such as: activity, agitation, ailment, anxiety, bustle, and disquiet.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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