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Invasive tawny crazy ants have an intense craving for calcium – with implications for their spread in the US

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Tawny crazy ants – named for their fast, erratic movements – can blanket the ground by the millions. Originating in South America and now established in parts of the southern U.S., they harm other insects, asphyxiate chickens and even short-circuit electronics in homes.
At only 0.125 inches (3.2 mm) long, crazy ants are tiny but mighty.
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The nutritional content of nectar and honeydew vary widely, however, depending on the nutrients available in a particular ecosystem. There are 25 chemical elements required to build life – too much or too little of one may cause disease. So far, ecologists only really know about the importance of macronutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorus, that are abundant in living tissue. My team wanted to learn more about what micronutrients might be important to crazy ants.

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Ryan Reihart

Ryan Reihart is a broadly trained ecologist and PhD candidate at the University of Dayton, who is currently working in Dr. Chelse Prather’s Insect Ecology Lab. Ryan received his B.S. in Environmental Biology from University of Dayton in 2014, his M.S. in Biology from Eastern Washington University in 2016, and is expected to graduate with his PhD from University of Dayton in 2021. His research uses insects as a model system to better understand how humans are affecting ecosystems.
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