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Leptanilla Japonica
''Leptanilla japonica'' is an uncommon highly migratory, subterranean ant found in Japan. They are tiny insects, with workers measuring about 1.2 mm and queen ant, queens reaching to about 1.8 mm, and live in very small ant colony, colonies of only a few hundred individuals at a time (as compared to the 60,000 to 20,000,000 individuals of army ant, legionary ant colonies.) Its sexual development follows a seasonal cycle that affects the colony's animal migration, migration and feeding habits, and vice versa. ''L. japonica'' exhibits specialized predation, with prey consisting mainly of centipede#Geophilomorpha, geophilomorph centipedes, a less reliable food source that also contributes to their high rate of nest migration. Like ants of genus, genera ''Amblyopone'' and ''Proceratium'', the genus ''Leptanilla'' engages in larval hemolymph feeding (LHF), with the queen using no other form of sustenance. LHF is an advantageous alternative to the more costly cannibalism (zoolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
