If you drop a Ant from the top of the Empire State building would it live?
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yes it would, even considering the acceleration of gravity. you still have to factor in terminal velocity. The mass of the ant compared to its area and wind resistance would limit it's speed during it's fall. After approximately 10ft, it wouldn't gain anymore speed. Quite possibly, with the wind, it would land several blocks away.
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Ants build anthills because that is their home where they keep the queen to make more ants. It is also used for protection against wind, rain and people stomping on it.
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A termite ( subtereanean) lives up to 40 feet below the ground surface and sends its workers to feed on cellouse in wood or products made from wood.  the workers are whiteish colored, while the adults are black with two body segments. the adults develope wings when they swarm during a sharp weather change but shed them quickly after a short flight. An ant has three body segments, lives outside mainly but can come in to a structure or nest in a structure if enough moisture is advailable to them, ie pipe condensation or roof leaks, etc.
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I suspect the answer is they can, but when enough of them bite you, you'd wake up and do something about it. In Houston, some years back, some awful people abandoned a newborn baby girl in a plastic bag on the side of the road. They found her covered in ant bites but alive. Doctors said that the ant bites were bad, but if the ants had not eaten through the plastic bag the child would have suffocated, so it was just as well -- they could treat ant bites.\n\nOf course, 6 months later I'm in the checkout at the grocery and see a headline on one of the "rag" newspapers: "Doctors amazed! Ants save baby girl's life!"
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Yes I do in fact.  The other day I was having a party (on my neighbors roof) and I decided to let my pet ant (Granny) have a drink of my mudslide.   Actually it was all jUjU's idea, but I will never tell anyone that.  So any ways, he was drinking away and he got up to go pee and kept falling over on its ride side.  Again and again and again, until finally he passed out cold.  Go figure.  I carried him home and tucked him in.  He is all better now BTW, just in case you wanted to send a card or flowers or something.  :)
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pack it in foam, put a parachute on it... and drop it from the BOTTOM of the 3 story building!!!
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First, than ant has its skeleton on the outside, same thing as an armor, second, due to the weight and size of the ant, the air friction is higher, making it fall slower than a human being
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I would think the army ant.
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It should be dead by now, the itchy feelings and legs thing, thats all part of your fear of it, its true. When ever at wasp or something as landed on me before and i ve swiped it off, after i feel like its on me. Well, enough with the life story, heres some information on how lomg do ants live....\n\nSome ants can live a long time, while other ants have very short life spans. A species of worker ants in Africa only live for a few weeks, while one queen ant held in a German laboratory was 29 years old! Ants usually live in colonies. At the center of the colony is one or more queen ants -- these are females who lay eggs. Many smaller male ants work hard to feed and care for the queen. Not surprisingly, queens generally live longer than male worker ants. As I learned at a great site called ZoomSchool, ants usually live only 6 to 10 weeks!\n\nHope it helps your eating bug thing :)
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Because the ant has such a large surface area comparative to its mass, it's likely that at any height on Earth when atmosphere is present that an ant will survive the fall.\n\nThere are several species of ant which are able to glide, maneuvering their body as they fall.  These are mostly tree-dwelling species in places like the Amazon rainforest.  If they happen to fall from a tree, they simply glide back to the trunk of the tree and climb back up.
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If it did could you imagine those bird dropings?
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I've never heard that, but small seeds are moved about by ants, so it is possible.
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Driver Ants. They were formerly called African Army Ants or Old World Army Ants. A colony can be 10 to 20 million strong and kills anything at all that doesn't get out of their way, even an elephant. Death comes from asphyxiation as the ants crawl into the mouth, nose, and lungs of their victim.
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House-infesting ants and their management\n\nAs a group, ants are the most difficult household pests to control. In some cases, treatment methods such as spraying ant trails only make the problem worse! Learning to identify pest ants, understanding their biology and knowing control alternatives will help make combating them a success.\nBehavior \n\n\nAnts are social insects. Their nests or colonies can be found indoors and out, although some species have preferred nesting sites. A nest contains one or more queen ants laying eggs and being cared for by worker ants. Worker ants-- sterile or non-reproductive female ants--tend the queen and brood (eggs, larvae and pupae) and forage for food. Foraging ants can invade households from colonies outdoors.\n\nNests often can be located by following “trails” of foraging ants. Indoors, ants nest almost anywhere. For instance, Pharaoh ants readily nest in attics, appliances, linens, heating ducts, wall voids and light switches or fixtures. Killing foraging ants rarely solves an ant problem in the home because the colony remains unaffected.
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Yes...left it up in the air on the tower...hope it does return in the fall!
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all ants bite... they devour their food by eating it,will bite if you try to mess with them...even the tiny ones will defend themselves & their queen & nests..fire ants are the worse kind though,they have a poison that makes it burn really intense when they bite you....too many bites can be deadly
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Most insects would not survive the actual explosion; the heat would just be too much. However certain insects, like cockroaches, are very resistant to radiation. They would survive the fall-out far better than more complex organisms.