Why are Ants so powerful???
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They work out a lot. \n\nI gave one a strength test today.  I wanted to see if it could hold me up.  It couldn't.  \n\nNice avatar baby picture, I hope it's not you.
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All female ants have wings when they hatch. After they hatch, they take a maiden flight where they are met with swarms of male ants. She mates many times, then seeks out a nesting place to make a colony, breaks off her wings, and tunnels underground to start her colony. This is how you tell mated females from unmated females: the unmated females still have their wings.\n\nWhen an ant colony loses their queen, they will sometimes split into two or more colonies. It is not known how or why they select a particular larva, but the drones all begin feeding a single larva a special diet (NOT royal jelly - this is specific to bees, which are related to ants and have similar biology and behavior to ants). This special diet causes the larva to grow larger than others, and become a fully reproductive female (the other "females" in the colony are sterile - same as bees). Once this larva hatches, she mates, breaks off her wings, and becomes the new queen. \n\nIn many cases, several larvae will be fed the diet to become fully reproductive females, but only one will become queen of that colony, the others will go with the rest of the colony if it splits, or they will go on to form their own colony. As someone mentioned above, a queenless colony, on occasion, will meld with another colony that still has a queen. But as far as I understand, it is more common for the queenless colony to raise several new queens that will be dispersed where needed.\n\nThere is a lot of research going on right now with both bees and ants to figure out how this selection of a new quieen occurs and why it is so consistent. Also, how a queen (bee or ant) can mate during one flight in her entire life, yet produce viable eggs for some 20 years or so after...how does the male sperm stay viable within her for that long? This all has yet to be discovered.\n\nBees and ants are just the coolest insects and there's so much we have yet to discover about them!
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No they do not follow the same path. They follow a pheromone trail path set by a forager ant. The ensuing ants will reinforce that path until the food finishes. Yes they know where they are going, as they will also follow the strongest and shortest pheromone trail path.\n\nAlso, through the observation of the sudden infestation of my house with literally hundreds of ants (probably its winter). They find sugar traces in my toilet sink (I was doing some soda and mentos experiment there) :P, and a box of opened cereal at the top of my fridge.\n\nDestroying a path of ants seem to work poorly, as they still continue... they seem to operate much more actively in the day and communicate with other ants with increasing frequency when they are in the trail. Ant poison (chemical but toxic food for ants, which they will feed the queens with) seems to work a few years back and my current batch of ants seem to be taking the bait...
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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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I've never heard that, but small seeds are moved about by ants, so it is possible.
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it is a good question,better one is can the ants live in that environment.
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I tried answering the other question, but will try again.\n\nImagine a huge sheet of rubber with ants crawling of it. Now imagine that the sheet is being stretched and that the ants are crawling fairly slowly. On average, two ants will be moving away from each other due to the stretching of the sheet and those ants that are farther away from each other will be moving away from each other faster. However, if you have two ants that are fairly close, they can be moving closer to each other because of the way they crawl., even though the sheet is being stretched.\n\nThis is what happens with galaxies in the universe. Space itself is like the rubber sheet. The overall expansion of the universe is like the stretching of that sheet. However, each galaxy is also moving in space (like the ants crawl). The result is that galaxies that are far away from each other are moving away from each other faster on average. But those that are really close to each other can be moving togethe rbecause of their peculiar motion (the crawling) even though the space itself is stretching.\n\nNow, if you want to get an accurate picture of the expansion, it is best to look at galaxies that are far apart since the crawling will be overwhelmed by the stretching. In reality, some close galaxies are moving closer to us and others are moving away, but this is mostly because of the crawl part of the motion.
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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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Maybe they eat footballs too, I'm trying to figure how ants relate to footy, with regards to your question.
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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.
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a black ant, relevant to its size
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they have a high specific heat capacity,\nBecause it takes a lot of energy to make them increase in temperature.
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You could use ANT instead.
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Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant or http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant\n\nI don't know whether are you asking about the ratio of physical size, or the ratio of number of them
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Ants are always out exploring, and two things happen here:\n\n1. One ant will come across the sugar and will make a trail from there to the colony, soon hordes of ants will follow the trail to bring home the bacon.\n\n2. As long as there is moisture, a nearby and will actually smell the sugar from a few yards away. It does have a smell too. Once he stumbles across it, the same will happen as described earlier.
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ants release a disgustin smellin chemical as a method of protection frm predators.so naturally when u try to kill them u r classified as a predator and so they release the metal-like smellin stuff which leaves ur fingers or whtever u used to do the murder smellin gross.
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Generally there is no ant which is the supervisor. However, some ants are much more likely to do construction work than other. Generally it is related with age. Younger worker tend to look after brood, older workers do the foraging but also construction. In bees there is a very established age related procedure through jobs. The bees workers wax glands are also only active during a certain age, so they can't build for all of their life. Division of labor seems to be more flexible in ants, but apart from age there is also the idea that the threshold to certain cues are a bit different between different ants, so some ants will do certain jobs in preference to other ants (like some people get always stuck with the cleaning because they get bothered by the filth most). \nFor how a nest is constructed I pasted below two links which may get you started if you care to find out more. It's just what comes up if you type in "nest construction ants". If you type in the same in google scholar you will come up with a lot more, and you can start your research from there.