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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (14590)	12/9/2004 7:21:25 AM
From: Doc Bones	Respond to of 52153

...OT Raymond, Rest assured, the last thing I want to do is get you started. The ant lore was somewhat hearsay. Here's a googled passage that shows that they are good friends in these areas: insectscience.org Moreover, ants perform major ecological functions (Wheeler 1910; Hölldobler and Wilson 1990). They are typically the dominant predators and scavengers in their size range (Jeanne 1979; Fellers 1987). Ants are often more important than earthworms for soil mixing, nutrient transport, and soil aeration (Lyford 1963; Gentry and Stiritz 1972). Moreover, they are major granivores in arid regions (MacMahon et al. 2000), and are important for pollination (Hickman 1974), dispersal (Beattie and Culver 1981), and protection (Janzen 1966) of numerous plants. Ants, for example, are responsible for the dispersal of a third of herbaceous plants in New York forests (Handel et al. 1981) Doc