is an ant a carnivore, a herbivore or a carnivore?
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I think they might be omnivores because they will eat just about anything: other insects, fruit, vegetables, left overs from a picnic, etc.
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Army ants found in Africa are called driver ants. Driver ants form huge colonies, which in some cases consist of between 10 million and 20 million workers. Driver ants have extremely powerful mandibles. Their massive swarms are capable of immobilizing and killing large prey.\n\nIf attacked you won't be dismembered and eaten, but bites from large soldiers (workers) can inflict excruciating pain. Once their jaws have snapped shut, nothing can shake them loose.\n\nColonies of these ants have no permanent nests. Instead they make temporary bivouacs by interlocking their bodies in a protective dome over the queen and her young. Periodically they use a hollow log or decaying stump for a slightly more permanent shelter. This is for about 20 days and allows the queen to lay her eggs, possibly up to 30,000 of them.\n\nThey have been known to kill Elephants believe it or not. The very few cases with human fatalites most are of them being unconscious and their calls for help being unheard.
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The sun is the source of energy. Plants are next. Then herbivores or plant eaters. Then comes the carnivores that catch and eat the herbivores. Finally are the decomposers
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all the energy comes from the sun....plants turn it into a form that is useful to animals...so a carnivore eats a smaller animal who may be an herbivore who feeds exclusively on plants...plants that used photosynthesis to turn solar energy to food!
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If you go to the Tree of Life WWW page at the level Arthropod (Phylum), you will see that cockroaches are insects (Class Hexapoda) and lobsters are decapod crustaceans (Class Crustacea); they are two groups in the same phylum, URL:\n \nTree of Life (at Arthropoda level) - http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Arthropoda&contgroup=Bilateria\n \nYou can move up the tree to see how arthropods are related to other animals.\n \nBeyond classification which should reflect the lobster and cockroach evolutionary relationship, the term 'roaches of the sea' reflects the behavior of lobsters as omnivorous scavengers.   Cockroaches will eat almost anything organic and so will lobsters.   They clean up the dead and dying plants and animals in their environment.\n \nSo much for the delicious taste of lobster?
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Via the carbon cycle. Green plants take in carbon dioxide from air during photosynthesis to produce a 6C sugar. Herbivores eat these green plants and carnivores eat herbivores. All animals respire and give back carbon into the air via carbon dioxide. And when all animals die, putrefying agents aid in the decomposition of dead matter and carbon compounds are taken back into the soil or given out into the air as carbon dioxide.
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herbivore is the name given to plant eating animals
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animals are generally classed as carnivores (those that eat other animals), herbivores (those that eat plants) or omnivores (those that eat both plants and animals).\n\nThese classifications are not absolute.  Cats and wolves are considered carnivores, but will sometimes also eat plant material.  Hippos are considered herbivores, but have been known to eat meat too.\n\nWithin each classification, there are also different names to refer to specialities within each type.  For example, a carnivore could be called a piscivore (eats fish) or insectivore (eats insects), and a herbivore could be called a graminivore (eats grasses) or frugivore (eats fruit).
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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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The genus Atta is the pinnacle of Attine evolution, with 15 species representing the premier leaf-cutting ants. The huge queens, well over an inchlong, are efficient egg-laying machines, giving rise to worker populations as large as several million individuals. The workers are strongly polymorphic, varying in length from about 1/16 to 5/8 inches, and correspondingly, a several hundred-fold increase in body weight! \n\nThis is what I could find on the Atta...Here is the website on the total Leafcutter Ants issus...well one website anyways. (The first site listed is what I found this info under)
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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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A Coypu or nutria is a herbivore.  A herbivore is an animal that is adapted to eat primarily plant matter (rather than meat).
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I'll take a shot.\n\nI would say a rabbit because they eat green vegetation which doesn't pack as much nutrients per weight as ants and termites do.\n\nBut that's all speculation. I should stick to answering questions about rocks.
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Japanese Ant\n\nhttp://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/Taxo/F81104.html
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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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An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community. The different levels represent different groups of organisms that might compose a food chain. From the bottom-up, they are as follows:\n 1 Producers-bring energy from nonliving sources into the community.\n  2 primary consumers-eat the producers, which makes them herbivores in most communities.\n 3 secondary consumers-eat the primary consumers, which makes them carnivores.\n 4Tertiary consumers-eat secondary consumers, which makes them omnivores.\n In some food chain, there is a a fourth consumer level, and a rarely, a fifth.
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http://www.calacademy.org/naturalhistory/ants.html