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 <img alt="Fire ant (Red ant) (2)" class="size-medium wp-image-100539 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="100539" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Fire ant (Red ant) (2)" data-recalc-dims="1" height="250" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Fire-ant-Red-ant-2.jpg" width="300"/>
 <figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-100539">
 Fire ant (Red ant) was observed and identified through foldscope in soil sample. The family name Formicidae is derived from the
 <a alt="Latin" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Latin">
 Latin
 </a>
 
 formīca
 
 (“ant”) (Simpson 1979) from which the words in other
 <a alt="Romance_languages" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Romance_languages">
 Romance languages
 </a>
 , such as the Portuguese
 
 formiga
 
 , Italian
 
 formica
 
 , Spanish
 
 hormiga
 
 , Romanian
 
 furnică
 
 , and French
 
 fourmi
 
 are derived. It has been hypothesised that a
 <a alt="Proto-Indo-European_language" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Proto-Indo-European_language">
 Proto-Indo-European
 </a>
 word *morwi- was used, cf.
 <a alt="Sanskrit" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Sanskrit">
 Sanskrit
 </a>
 vamrah, Latin formīca,
 <a alt="Ancient_Greek" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Ancient_Greek">
 Greek
 </a>
 μύρμηξ
 
 mýrmēx
 
 ,
 <a alt="Old_Church_Slavonic" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Old_Church_Slavonic">
 Old Church Slavonic
 </a>
 
 mraviji
 
 ,
 <a alt="Old_Irish" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Old_Irish">
 Old Irish
 </a>
 
 moirb
 
 ,
 <a alt="Old_Norse" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Old_Norse">
 Old Norse
 </a>
 
 maurr
 
 ,
 <a alt="Dutch_language" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Dutch_language">
 Dutch
 </a>
 
 mier
 
 .
 
 
 Ants
 
 are
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 eusocial
 </a>
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 insects
 </a>
 of the
 <a alt="Family_(biology)" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Family_%28biology%29">
 family
 </a>
 
 Formicidae
 
 and, along with the related
 <a alt="Wasp" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Wasp">
 wasps
 </a>
 and
 <a alt="Bee" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Bee">
 bees
 </a>
 , belong to the
 <a alt="Taxonomy_(biology)" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Taxonomy_%28biology%29">
 order
 </a>
 <a alt="Hymenoptera" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_100581/Hymenoptera">
 Hymenoptera
 </a>
 .
 </figcaption>
</figure>

Fire ant was seen under the foldscope in soil samples

krishnameesala6@gmail.com | Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 5:34 AM

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