How is it that ants can survive falls would leave any human lying on the ground like a pancake?
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First, than ant has its skeleton on the outside, same thing as an armor, second, due to the weight and size of the ant, the air friction is higher, making it fall slower than a human being
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They can. But ants don't really walk to a destination the way we do. Most of the time they walk in a zig zag pattern leaving behind them a trail of scent back to their hole. Once they've found a food source they go back to the hole leaving behind them a different scent that other ants will pick up on and then they go to the food as well. Once a few ants start going to and from the food source from the hole all the ants around will just run back and forth bringing home the food, that's when you'll see ants running fairly straight.
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it certainly wont (provided it is not run over when it reaches the ground.)because it is very light it will be affected by the wind and will manage to make a smooth landing,however if the wind velocity is high it will die.(i am answering takin into consideration that the ant does not get a heart attack!)
310069
First, all the eggs laid will have already been fertilized so the eggs not being fertilized is not an issue.\n1. Rainy weather will destroy eggs.\n2. Predator insects will eat the eggs.
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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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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>^,,^<
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all ants bite... they devour their food by eating it,will bite if you try to mess with them...even the tiny ones will defend themselves & their queen & nests..fire ants are the worse kind though,they have a poison that makes it burn really intense when they bite you....too many bites can be deadly
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at the scale of an ant, the wall is actually pretty rough, so its like climbing a cliff. look above for info on how their feet have suckers and hooks - it like a combination of metal spikes and batmans suction cups.
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A terrified and wounded ant.
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Yes I do in fact.  The other day I was having a party (on my neighbors roof) and I decided to let my pet ant (Granny) have a drink of my mudslide.   Actually it was all jUjU's idea, but I will never tell anyone that.  So any ways, he was drinking away and he got up to go pee and kept falling over on its ride side.  Again and again and again, until finally he passed out cold.  Go figure.  I carried him home and tucked him in.  He is all better now BTW, just in case you wanted to send a card or flowers or something.  :)
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Ant colonies will fight each other, and ants can tell if an ant is from another colony through the use of pheromones, so the ant cannot join another colony.  Ants are also dependent on one another for survival.  They protect each other, and communicate the location of found food by using pheromones.  Without it's colony mates, a single ant will probably starve to death or be killed by other ants or some other predator.
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I don't believe that ants sleep because they are always busy doing something.
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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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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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ants are the coolest-all over the world different species work in large colonies to do amazing things, they practice agriculture: some cultivate a species of fungus to eat using cut up leaves as substrate and every time there is a new colony to be formed they bring the fungus with them. Some raise aphids like cows protecting them from predators to feed on a sweet secretion they produce. Some live in specialy evolved hollow spaces on plants built specifically to house ants who in return protect the plant from any intruder and even vines that try to grow on it-they will even weed out plants trying to grow on the ground around it! They also wage wars against other ant colonies, and that's just the beginning....
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Little Black Ant\n\nLittle Black ants are very small and black, two nodes, with workers all one size, similar to the Pharaoh Ant. Found throughout the U.S., but most often in the east. One of the more common house-infesting ants, Little Black Ants nest in wall voids and under carpets. May build outdoor colonies under rocks, logs, debris and forage to indoor food sources along baseboards and carpet edges. Likes sweets, fats, oils.
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FIRST OF ALL I'M SORRY BUT I'M PISSING MY PANTS YOU ARE A TRIP!! IF THE TRAIL MIX WAS IN YOUR ROOM AND IT HAD ANTS IN IT I WOULD THROW AWAY ALL YOUR FOOD IN YOUR ROOM AND VACUUM YOUR ROOM REALLY GOOD SO THE ANTS DON'T CRAWL ON YOU WHEN YOUR SLEEPING THIS COULD BE A PROBLEM!!  IF YOUR NOT SICK NOW THEN I THINK YOU'LL BE FINE!! BUT RED ANTS WILL BITE YOU IF YOUR NOT CAREFUL CHECK YOUR SELF FOR (SMALL) RED MARKS IF YOU HAVE THEM THEN YOU WERE BITTEN BY THEM PUT CALAMINE LOTION ON AND YOU'LL BE OK!! IF YOUR NOT BETTER THEN CALL YOUR DOCTOR HE CAN PROBLEM HELP!!!......THE ANTS GO MARCHING ONE BY ONE....LOL