Amazon ant

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amazon ant

(Animals) any of several small reddish ants of the genus Polyergus, esp P. rufescens, that enslave the young of other ant species

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Amazon ant - small reddish slave-making ant species

Polyergus rufescens

slave-maker, slave-making ant - an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants

genus Polyergus, Polyergus - Amazon ants

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Le Moli, "Mating and post-mating behaviour of the European amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)," Bolletino Zoologia, vol.

Rossomyrmex, the slave-maker ants from the arid steppe environments

On the other hand, Morse's score for The Colony, in which a queen Amazon ant (Lloyd) tries to mate with the human exterminator (Klassen), was almost Handelian in its use of such Baroque opera conventions as a lament.

It is easy to miss the forest for the trees in Tapestry's annual Opera to Go

Mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabo played the Queen of the Amazon Ants, in need of a lover to propagate the race, and she sets her sights on tenor Keith Klassen, who is an exterminator.