Ant nest beetle secretions on their antennae and body allow them to interact with ant workers. It is believed that the beetles use an acoustic mechanism to successfully imitate the sounds of an ant queen thus permitting them access to the nest without alarming the ants. The defensive bombardier behaviour is never used against ants. Males of some species are attracted to lights during some parts of the season and are thought to disperse from one ant nest to another. Males are thought to be short-lived. These beetles feed on ant eggs, larvae and adults by piercing their mandibles into the abdomen or
Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter sleeve. Ant had previously expressed the intention to also release the album in the redundant cassette format. According to Ant, the front cover is "Girl in a Cocked Hat" and the back cover is "Girl in a Cocked Hat II", both of which are paintings by Mary Jane Ansell. Ant says that the girl depicted in the artwork is the gunner's daughter, and her name is Georgie "and she’s a little punk rocker". A 40 second clip of the proposed single "Hard Men, Tough Blokes" was released on Ant's official website on 16 August 2011. The song "Vince Taylor" was