What do ants do with the dead ones they carry off?
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They store them to feed it on the queens babies.
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They've got the starring role! Bacteria, fungi, protists, all of them pick away at whatever dead matter they find, and the important thing is that they often secrete digestive enzymes onto the stuff so it breaks down. This helps them have small food particles to ingest, and it cleans up the environment to boot.
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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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It depends upon the species of ant. Some seek out sweets. Others seek out fats (like cheese). Still others swap between sources depending on what's available.
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When they are gone, they are gone.
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ants. try not eating anything on your bed, you're leaving crumbs all over.
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i think so other roaches can carry them away
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In many cases I would imagine the bodies are 'donated ' to scientific institutions, Universities and museum collections. I remember reading somewhere about a zoo rhino that died and was then buried in the university grounds to decay, so that their bones could be used for the university zoological museum. When they first dug him up he wasn't quite 'ready' so they had to rebury him!
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Ants use their antennae to smell
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Some 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!
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There is not really a thing like surface only ants, but there are ants which do mainly foraging. \nIf you just sweep up a bunch of ants around a nest and put them in your ant farm I'd expect them to behave exactly like you describe. They are away from their mom and feel lonely and depressed...\nAnyway, doesn't sound like you have an ant queen and brood in your nest. You also don't say anything about feeding them and giving them water. You should indeed read up on the poor critters before you mistreat them. They may be small animals, but they still are animals and need proper care. And ants need their own and complete colony to behave normally - and even then, ants underground don't have a reputation to uphold, they can be fairly lazy.
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They mate in large swarms and then females go off to look for a suitable place to start excavating a nest. Soon after matying the males die. Mated females may live and lay fertile eggs for many years after their single mating. Reproductive ants, at the time of mating, are easily told from workers -- they have wings! If you were designing an insect that lives in tunnels underground, would you give them wings? If you are one of the lucky few who watch ants enough, you'll get to see the ant solution to the problem wings impose for digging in the ground.
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I suppose they do but probably not at regular times like every 11pm or something. They probably take turns sleeping.\n\nThis site says some ants sleep 7 hours a day:\nhttp://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/ant.html
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The same way dead flowers get pollinated.
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That's an easy question.  Since the zombie is already dead, all you need to do is tie it down and sew another zombie head on it.  Once you let it up, shoot it.
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by killing insects, it disrupts the foodchain at a low level, affecting everything above it. also, any good things the insects might have done, like pollinating plants etc will be stopped.
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Moles have a living area in their tunnels, including a storage area for extra food(worms with their heads bitten off), and a latrine area.\nMoles are VERY terratorial, and a single yard will usually only have one, but 2 tunnel systems may overlap on a property, sometimes.  If a mole is killed, and the population in the area is high, another mole will move into the tunnels.\nMoles tunnel around looking for food, such as grubs, or periodical cicada.  To get rid of the moles, treat for grubs.  It it's a 17 year locust emergence, get used to the moles...at least for a few years.\nThey produce 3-5 young in the spring.\nHere is a link to information