Ant and Related Entomology Terms

A special form of assembly in which members of a society are directed to some place where work is required: Sam read that a recruitment was a kind of gathering of members of a population where they were told to go to a certain place where work was required.

An odor trail laid by scout workers: A recruitment trail is used to round up nest mates to a food find, a desirable new nest site, a breach in the nest wall, or some other place where the assistance of many workers is needed.

Referring to a hair lying on the body surface: In biology, the recumbent hair lies flat on the surface from which it grew.

The relative increase of one body part with respect to another as total body size is varied:"Allometry" (measurement of the rate of development of a part or parts of an organism relative to the development of the whole organism) is a special form of "relative growth".

An individual ant whose crop is greatly distended with liquid food, to the extent that the abdominal segments are pulled apart and the intersegmental membranes are stretched tight: Repletes usually serve as living reservoirs, regurgitating food on demand to their nest mates.

In some colonies, the foraging workers gather termites, nectar from desert plants, and honeydew from homopterous insects, and store them in the crops of the repletes, nest mates that are specialized to serve as food storage receptacles.

A forager will regurgitate liquid from her crop into an expanding replete, while other full repletes hang from the ceiling of the nest chamber.

One of the males and fertile females ants: In the article about ants, it stated that reproductives included the queens and laying workers.

The stage in colony growth during which males and virgin queens are produced: Ingrid read about the reproductive stages describing the time when both virginal female and male ants are born.

Pertaining to a web-like form or appearance: A reticulate lizard can be covered with a network of carinae (ridges), striae (grooves running across or along the body), or rugae (fold, wrinkle, or crease).

A group of workers that closely attend the queen: The retinue of the ant nest are not necessarily permanent or even long-lasting in composition,

The evolutionary modification of a behavior pattern; the condition of something bing put into a prescribed and an acceptable form: A ritualization of an action can be turned into a signal used in communication or at least can improve its efficiency as a signal.

A pattern of behavior displayed by certain members of an insect society: The roles of some ants have an effect on other members in a way that divides labor.

A wrinkle on the body surface: Sone insects have a ruga on the outside of its structure, or it can be a fold or crease as well.

Referring to wrinkles forming a network or grid on the body: When John read an article about fossilized corals, he learned that some had rugoreticulate with horn-shaped surfaces that were covered with ridges.

A reference to a surface bearing multiple wrinkles, running approximately parallel: The leaves of the Primula vulgaris, the common primrose, has exceptionally rugose leaves

A portion of the body wall bounded by sutures: A sclerite is a calcareous plate of an invertebrate, particularly one of the hard outer plates forming a section of the exoskeleton of an arthropod.