Why don't black ants bite?
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oh but they do. and it hurts a lot.
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None, ants dont live in apartments. They live in colonies.
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I've never heard of a potato bug biting a person. Barring an allergic reaction, I wouldn't worry.
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With some animals there is the skill in knowing how to handle that beastie, exactly where and when to pick it up, and what warning signs indicate that it's about to bite.\n\nWith others, Jeff has the added advantage of multiple takes.  I'm sure he does in fact get bitten fairly often, but they can always do another take and use the best one.\n\nI often get bitten by the bugs I'm handling during nature walks and school tours and the like, but the trick is not to react too much to the bite.  Unless it's really bad, most insect or animal bites can be withstood for a little while.  The biggest danger is usually the damage the critter might do to himself as he bites.
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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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Knowing the food habits of the particular ant species is important in ant management because it may enable the location and elimination of the food that is attracting the ants to the site, it can help to locate foraging trails to track the ants back to their nest, and it can help to choose an effective bait. \n\nAnts feed on many different types of food. Some species will feed on practically anything; others may limit their food to a narrow range. Ants infesting structures are typically feeding on "people food," both food in storage (sugar, cakes, cookies, breakfast cereals, etc.) and food from spills and garbage. But they may also be preying on other insects or scavenging on dead insects in windows or lights.\n\nFood preferences are often seasonal. When the queen is actively laying eggs, worker ants typically gather protein- based foods for the queen. At other times they may ignore protein foods completely and restrict their foraging to sugars and greases. \n\nMany ants obtain sugar by feeding on honeydew, a sweet substance secreted by aphids and other plant-sucking insects. They often defend these insects from predators and tend them as if they were their personal food supply. Indoor infestations of ants are occasionally traced to large populations of aphids on outdoor foundation plants or indoor houseplants.
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- Ant communication is primarily through chemicals called pheromones. Because most ants spend their time in direct contact with the ground, these chemical messages are more developed than in other Hymenopterans. So, for instance, when a forager finds food on its way home (found typically through remembered landmarks and the position of the sun), it will leave a trail along the ground, which in a short time other ants will follow. When they return home they will reinforce the trail, bringing other ants, until the food is exhausted, after which the trail is not reinforced and so slowly dissipates. A crushed ant will emit an alarm pheromone, that in high concentration sends other ants nearby into an attack frenzy, and in lower concentration attracts them, while a few ants use what are called propaganda pheromones to confuse their enemies.\n\n- Ant trails have no intrinsic polarity; that is to say, an ant walking on a straight non-branching trail cannot tell whether it is walking to or from the nest. Trails always divide as a "Y", with the two secondary trails at a 60 degree angle to each other, and it is the geometry at trail junctions that give ant trails polarity. (Jackson et al, 2004)\n\n- Like other insects, ants smell with their antennae, which are long and thin. These are fairly mobile, having a distinct elbow joint after an elongated first segment, and since they come in pairs they provide information about direction as well as intensity. Pheromones are also exchanged as compounds mixed in with the food interchanged in trophallaxis, giving the ants information about one another's health and nutrition. Ants can also detect what task group (e.g. foraging or nest maintenance) other ants belong to. Of special note, the queen produces a special pheromone without which the workers will begin raising new queens.\n\n- Ants attack and defend themselves by biting, and in many species, stinging, in both cases sometimes injecting chemicals into the target. Of special note here is formic acid.\n\n- While many types of animals can learn behaviors by imitating other animals, ants may be the only group of animals besides humans in which interactive teaching behavior has been observed. Knowledgeable forager ants of the species Temnothorax albipennis directly lead naive nestmates to newly discovered food sources by an excruciatingly slow (and time-costly), process of 'tandem running'. The follower thereby obtains knowledge that it would not have, had it not been tutored, and this is at the expense of its nestmate teacher. Both leader and follower are acutely sensitive to the progress of their partner. For example, the leader slows down when the follower lags too far behind, and speeds up when the follower gets too close, whereas the follower does the opposite (Franks and Richardson, 2006).\n--------------------
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well, you're definitely allergic to whatever this ant bit you with.  what you've described is a very typical allergic reaction.  it could have had some strange chemical in its mouth, or it was a different kind of ant than the others that bit you.  \n\nif benedryl isn't working for you, i don't know what else to suggest.  you'd have to see your doctor for any beefier antihistamines.  and since this is just a swollen wrist from an ant bite, it's not so big a deal.  the swelling should go down over the next few days.  if you still are swollen next week, then it's time to see the doctor, but for now, try not to worry about it.  maybe try benedryl again with a little bit of ice.  and take some ibuprofen.  they might help too.  you can take as many as 800 mg (which is usually 4 pills) and be just fine.
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Well, if you think in terms of physics, then no, it doesnt. Force of a fall (that which leads to pain) if a function of both mass and gravity. Gravity will act the same way on the ant as it would on a Volkswagon, however the ant weights significantly less, so the force at which it hits the ground is much less. As an added feature, due to air and wind resistance, the ants landing would be relatively comfortable. No is we attempted this in an air free chamber, the landing wouldn't be so soft!
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The red spotted ant mimic spider, like all spiders, possesses venom glands, and is predatory, however its venom is not dangerous to humans.\n\nI'm not sure why they're actually called ant mimics, since they don't look much like an ant to me.  They look like a pretty black spider with a red stripe down the back of its abdomen to me.
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ants have six legs, so if they loose one or two they are still fine. And they don't feel the same kind of hurt than we do (at least they don't have pain receptors of a type which is comparable to ours), so an ant with a damaged or even missing leg may just walk on without being too much bothered by it. Watch their behavior, it will tell you how bad they feel (give it a minute or two).\n\nSo if you just damaged one of its legs, you should let it live, because it still can live on quite nicely. If you stepped on part of its body it is probably kinder to kill it completely because it is not going to be able to live on anyway.
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First of all i seriously doubt that spiders are bitting you. This is a very common misconception and 99% of the time people think they are getting bit by spiders and they are actually just having asn allergic rection to the sheets, or they have bed bugs, or some other parasitic insect infectation. Unless you have actually seen the spider physically bite you, you are wrong.... trust me, my job is to determine what is "biting" people half the time and it is never spiders. I was bitten by several spiders in my day, I work with them for a living, and trust me, when you get bit, you know it! You will have a large bulbous wound, way worse than any bee sting, and there are two VERY visible punture marks, especially with a group like wolf spiders (probably not them anyways) the bites are extremely painful and terribly obvious.\nI think you should really look into the problem before "bombing" your spiders. Actually to tell you the truth, the spiders are probably eating whatever it is that is really bitting you.\nSpiders are NOT ectoparasites of humans, they never bite needlessly. Every single time I was bitten was because I picked them up, they felt threatened and that is their only defence, they NEVER seek out paople to bite.......It just doesn't happen. All spiders eat insects, there re some exceptions and they feed on nectar, but there has never been a species out there that feeds of the blood of people.\nSpiders are also very fragile, if you were to say roll on one in bed, it may bite, but it would also die at the same time, then you would find dead spiders in your bed, have you seen any?\nA spider large enough to bite a human is probably over an inch long, not very hard to miss, so if you see one of these little giants, in your bed sheets and you have a terrible looking bite with two puncture woulds and a swelling that looks like you have a ping-pong ball under your skin, then you can blame a spider, but until then I think  you should go get tested for allergens, or inspect the tins spaces along the mattress, and sheets for some tiny brownish-red insetcs, or their feces (black bits), these are bed bugs, not uncommon.\n\ntrust me, it is a whaste of money to bob for spiders, and take my word on this, spiders are not the culprit it is something else
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Low mostly.Because most pisonous snakes don't want to bite you.Only if they get scared of you or if you harass them they may bite.If you live in tropical areas like south america or africa you might be a little at risk.Black mumbas attack when they see you.Even if you did not harm them they want to bite you.So chances of snake bites are quite high in the tropical areas and Africa.
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why cant we kiss our elbows and where dose my lap go and do ants smile when were not looking?
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a black ant, relevant to its size
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You're correct about its mouth size--too small to bite humans. It feeds on small insects or the corpses of larger ones. It has a penis, which makes it different from spiders. In fact, the Daddy Longlegs is not technically a spider, although it is an arachnid. I even learned its mating dance. But what I didn't learn was the answer to your question. I ran out of new source material. Despair loomed. Failure before Cecil's eyes is damning indeed.\n\nThen, in the distance, a glimmer of hope. I had visited a slew of arachnid websites, drawing blanks. In desperation, I E-mailed various names from the sites. Just when all seemed lost, Herman Vanuytven came forth from the Arachnology Home page (http://www.ufsia.ac.be/Arachnology/Arachnology.html). Herman's response:\n\n"The problem with the 'Daddy Longlegs' is that the name is used for several kinds of animals, 2 of them arachnids:\n\n1) The family Phalangiidae (a part of the opilionids [harvestmen], a different order than spiders)\n\n2) a spider: Pholcus phalangioides\n\nNumber one doesn't have poison glands. Number two has poison glands but as far as is known in the scientific world, nobody has ever been bitten by one of them. It's not sure if the poison has ever been investigated since there was no need for it."\n\nConclusive proof has yet to be determined.
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Depends on what ants you are talking about \n\n some ants like  sweet stuff\n\nTry leaving some bread and jam or honey around ,\n in the ant season  \n and you will see them homing in on it , in droves .\n\n Some ants are carnivorous  \n living on other insects and even caterpillars \n\nsome ants are scavengers that will eat  or take to their nest anything  they can find that is edible  .\n\nBut ants love sweet stuff above all . \n\n>^,,^<