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existing pages:


 * Solenpsis invicta publications

Ant Lifestyles (?)

 * Fungus growing ants

Behavior

 * Foraging
 * Group Foraging
 * Foraging Strategies by Colony Size
 * Foraging behaviors in Poneroids and Ectatomminae
 * Tandem Running
 * Nest Building
 * Nestmate Recognition
 * Trophallaxis (also topic under Feeding in Ants, Diet(?))       P

Ant-Plant Relationships
(a tip of the hat to The Ants Chapter 14) for the following topic headings...
 * Ants protect plants
 * Plants shelter ants: Myrmecophytes
 * Ant gardens
 * Bromeliads
 * Plants feed the ants: food bodies
 * Plants feed ants: extrafloral nectaries
 * Ants feed plants: myrmecotrophy
 * Ants disperse plants: myrmecochory
 * Ants pollinate flowers (sparingly)
 * Ants prune and weed

There was an existing starter page on this topic: Ants and Plants

Endosymbionts and Endoparasites
Ants can be hosts to a variety of organisms that can live within their bodies. Depending on the organism, these can be symbiotic or parasitic interactions. Their influence may be minor and seemingly inconsequential. In other cases their presence alters the ants's morphology, behavior or metabolism and may even result in the individual's death.

nematodes (Gösswald, 1938b) termatodes (Hohorst and Lämmler, 1962; Schneider and Hohorst, 1971) cestodes (Muir, 1954; Plateaux, 1972; Buschinger, 1973b).

Bacteria

 * Wolbachia
 * Spiroplasma
 * Entomoplasma

Mutualisms
overlaps with Myrmecophiles and Myrmecophytes

Myrmecophily
Myrmecophiles

Both of the linked pages have topics and links under their respective headings

Behavior; species interactions and Mutalisms overlap this general topic

Trophic Strategies

 * Gardeners-Fungus Growing / Attines
 * Honeydew Gatherers
 * Mushroom Harvesting / Euprenolepis procera
 * Nomadic Hunters / Army Ants
 * Seed Harvesting

Ecology branch

 * Ant Diversity Publications currently for papers from 2015

Evolution

 * Ant Wings ++

Evolution Branch
Using ants to study phenotypic plasticity - Dinoponera quadriceps

Invasive Ants
The linked page has an introduction and links to specific species.

Life History

 * Ant Nests / Nesting Biology

Morphology

 * Ant Wings ++

Studying Ants

 * Studying Ants

Studying-Ants branch

 * Solenpsis invicta publications
 * Oecophylla publications

++ = topics that are listed under multiple headings