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![link to full article ABSTRACT: A 2005 review compiled a list of 155 ant species plus the hybrid fire ant Solenopsis invicta X richteri from Alabama. Here, we add an 38 additional species based on both published and unpublished records a](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522b22f2e4b04879e6b51037/1661180200204-6L644FFOEK9CO12Y8H9A/Screen+Shot+2022-08-22+at+9.50.58+AM.png)
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![The sophistication that we admire in the behavior of ants is a product of the entire colony and is controlled not by a single brain, but by the sum of all the individual brains of the colony's members. In analogy to the "superorganism", this](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522b22f2e4b04879e6b51037/1662389469863-31B30W05WIRGXORNV48U/Screen+Shot+2022-09-05+at+9.50.13+AM.png)
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