Why are there more ants in Asian countries than Western countries?
99751
There are definitely some ants here in the UK, although obviously not in the numbers found elsewhere. I think it's a climate thing. I remember seeing many ants on a recent trip to the canary islands, which although pretty western, has a far warmer meant temperature than britain.
269988
http://www.calacademy.org/naturalhistory/ants.html
854129
well if you consider that some individual colonies have more people than some small cities, then definatly. It is hypothesised that the weight of ants on the planet exceeds the total wieght of every person on the planet.\nLets look at it form a different perspective, it takes roughly 2.5 million ants to weight 170-180 pounds which is a rough average human weight, now, there are about 5 billion people on the planet, thats quite a bit, but then you should consider that the number of ants is 2.5 million times that number......I dont even think they have a name for such a number!
211723
Probably asian beatles, nasty little buggers bite too. They were imported because they eat aphids, but have gotten out of hand.
785942
There is no comparison between the two areas, since their philosophy is different! The Asians are polytheistic while the USA are mainly Monotheistic (the god of Abraham is only accepted)!\nAlso, democracy, a creation of the classical Greeks was spread in the west but not in the East!
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Ants have varying food sources AND they go through various lifecycles where they eat different things at different times of life.\n\nYes, they do usually go back to their nest and leave a chemical scent trail so the others can get back to where they found the food source.\n\nIt's possible that wood in the floor by the toilet or urine that hasn't been cleaned up, yet is attracting it.
1112542
As an Asian, I have a rough sense of that but you will have to elaborate it yourself.\n\nFirst, culturally, East Asia, as you see on the map is closer to China and therefore came under much Chinese influence in the past centuries. The sphere of influence is called as Yu Jia circle. Yu Jia is a set of ideas on families, politics and how a person should live. Why the Japanese and the Thai devoted so much to their kings? Because Yu Jia said so.\n\nOn the other hand, West Asians are more subjected to influences from the middle east and even Europe. They often believe in Islam and the food they eat is also different. That I don't know much.\n\nSecondly, there are also politics reasons behind the separation. Here are some directions I can give you: energy struggle, Russia, China and the US building their spheres of influences....\n\nThirdly there are climatic differences ( which in turn affects the cultures): the west is drier and the east is more humid. Different crops are grown in the two regions and led to different rate of economic development.\n\nThat's all I can tell you now but if you really need some more information, send me an email and there are probably some resources in Hong Kong that I can send you. Don't hesitate to ask for help if you need to.
851101
Mosquitoes seem to prefer Asians.  I don't know why.
846939
Yes. When I was 2, we lived in Florida and I made the mistake of standing on a hill of fire ants. 40 years later, when I'm in bed with my arm under the pillow and it starts to fall asleep and tingle, I go crazy thinking the ants are crawling on me.
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It has to do with the level of industrialization of countries, I think.  In the US, for instance, people don't have their children pluck chickens to eat, because we have machines that do it for us.  (The first and most common cases of bird flu in Asia are young boys who pluck chickens, it's this contact with the dead birds bloody body that passes the disease)  If there was a virus in chickens, a)it would die on the dead bird before people bought it because it couldn't feed off the dead bird's cells, or b) it would be killed in our ultra-efficient gas stoves.  We don't like to kill animals or handle their bodies in the US because our level of industrialization is such that we don't have to, so, less chance of bird flu.\n\nIn Africa, the spread of and the inception of diseases also has to do with industrialization because people tend to live closer to wild animals and to forest or jungle (We clear large swaths of land to build huge cities or suburban towns, but in smaller African towns people live nearer to wildlife).  This is why sometimes diseases like AIDS or Ebola will "come out of the jungle", meaning that someone had an encounter with a wild animal who had the disease, and they spread it to others in the town.  People tavelling from town to town or from towns to cities bring the diseases far, but they originate when people have encounters with wild animals.\n\nThe US is just so removed from wildlife because of our high level of industrialization that we don't often get diseases straight from animals: they have to be borne human-to-human to reach us, which I think in these cases is a good thing!
737590
I know dead ants attract more dead ants, so I would think the same concept would apply to flies.
105453
None, ants dont live in apartments. They live in colonies.
152704
Its so big like a conitnent but its not a continent. Asia is continent and its part of Asia so we call it sub continent.
848426
Ants are insects and don't carry disease ironically you can buy chocolate covered Ants as a snack in Asia it's only the western world where we don't eat insects.
902890
That's so ridiculous that it's almost funny. The truth is, the western diet (the way most folks eat in the US and Europe) is responsible for more disease including cancer, diabetes, hearth problems, etc. Rural Asian communities have practically non-existent occurrences of cancer, diabetes, etc. BECAUSE of their diet.
1173854
Most Asian nations aren't racially diverse because of their culture and a historical distrust of foriegners. Racially mixed children have a very tough time, basically outcasts.
537347
It's because, generally, Asian people have smaller 'frames' than Westerners. If you have a small bone structure it follows that your hips will be narrow. This is changing however, and Asian people are gradually becoming taller & wider - in a hundred years or so they might be like YOU & ME!!!! AAAaaaarrggh!!!! (But by then, OUR descendants will be the size of elephants!)