"ant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

ant sustantivo

sustantivo + ant
Kolokacji: 11
fire ant • Adam Ant • army ant • worker ant • carpenter ant • ...
ant + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 13
ant farm • ant hill • ant species • ant colony • ant nest • ...
ant + verbo
Kolokacji: 24
ant crawling • ant eats • ant comes • ant runs • ant goes • ...
verbo + ant
Kolokacji: 7
eat ants • attract ants • include ants • kill ants • ant found • ...
adjetivo + ant
Kolokacji: 22
red ant • black ant • leaf-cutter ant • arboreal ant • white ant • ...
(1) red, stinging
Kolokacji: 2
(5) fungus-growing, winged
Kolokacji: 2
1. fungus-growing ant = grzyb-rosnąć/urosnąć mrówkę fungus-growing ant
2. winged ant = skrzydlata mrówka winged ant
  • The winged ants fly off to mate and invade new colonies.
  • The insects eaten are mostly small flies, aphids and Hymenoptera such as winged ants.
  • The swift feeds in flight on flying insects, including winged ants and termites.
  • In a remarkable example of female mimicry, the winged ants produce chemicals that are very similar to those produced by the queens.
  • The wingless ants not only do not fight the winged ants, they often try to mate with them.
  • If winged ants are seen, there is a colony nearby, so this is an important warning sign.
  • Those are the non-functional deaths, as opposed to the dying of, say, the male spider, or the winged ant.
  • Alates (winged ants) can be seen on warm days and evenings of July and August.
  • This is one of the rare times that they are seen, as workers push the young winged ants out of the nest.
  • These alates (winged reproductive ants) are completely black (with some variations between species), compared to the orange-coloured workers.
(6) busy, industrious
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + ant
Kolokacji: 11
of ants • with ants • to ants • for ants • on ants • ...

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