why ants go in a line?
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Ants use pheromone trail to form and maintain the line. They deposit a certain amount of pheromone while walking, and each ant prefers to follow a direction rich in pheromone rather than a poorer one. Together with choosing this direction, the ants also reinforce the trail by leaving more pheromone behind.
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it is a good question,better one is can the ants live in that environment.
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You could use ANT instead.
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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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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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Most likely, they can't access it. If you leave a little trail leading up to the bag and tip it over, maybe they could find their way in. It takes a little while though, for some scouts to find it, go back home, and then more ants to come.
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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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Ant says "Jump..I'll catch U.."
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All the ants. There's about a googleplex of ants out there.
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True, ants are very light in weight, but in addition to this fact, water surfaces have a thin like layer that bonds because of the structure of water molecules. When divers dive, they have to "break the water" meaning that they have to break the molecule surface of a body of water in order to enter without getting hurt. Its this same surface that allows small insects such as ants to walk on top of water.
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House-infesting ants and their management\n\nAs a group, ants are the most difficult household pests to control. In some cases, treatment methods such as spraying ant trails only make the problem worse! Learning to identify pest ants, understanding their biology and knowing control alternatives will help make combating them a success.\nBehavior \n\n\nAnts are social insects. Their nests or colonies can be found indoors and out, although some species have preferred nesting sites. A nest contains one or more queen ants laying eggs and being cared for by worker ants. Worker ants-- sterile or non-reproductive female ants--tend the queen and brood (eggs, larvae and pupae) and forage for food. Foraging ants can invade households from colonies outdoors.\n\nNests often can be located by following “trails” of foraging ants. Indoors, ants nest almost anywhere. For instance, Pharaoh ants readily nest in attics, appliances, linens, heating ducts, wall voids and light switches or fixtures. Killing foraging ants rarely solves an ant problem in the home because the colony remains unaffected.
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Ants have highly notable evolutionary mathematical instincts - just observe their colonies, chemically-organized behavior, and communal actions (e.g. marching, hunting, defending, etc.) as ONE creature.  They often build multilayer interlocking bridges (many times out of their own bodies), for instance, for other ants to cross over - suggesting that their geometrical instincts and architectural abilities are at least 3D)   ... However, if you like to "suppose" that they possess mathematical "reasoning", then why simply limit yourself to dimensional worlds?   ... Why not suppose that a first ant geometry can describe anomalously Transdimensional worlds, as well?   ... See, it pays to think like an ant, or at least a mathematician!   lol
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No insects sleep, in the traditional sense. They go into something called "diapause." What happens is at night in temperate climates, the air temperature drops to levels at which the insect can no longer function normally. They get sluggish, find a safe place to hide, and stay there, in a nearly "frozen" state, completely inactive until the sun rises and temperatures increase. \n\nFor ants in tropical climates, the air temperatures usually do not get chilly enough for them to go into diapause and they work throughout the night, never sleeping.\n\nSo the answer is true.
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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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they are looking for a new home. While they are doing that the whole swarm hangs out some place they think is nice (don't know why they prefer your place). While they are hanging out they send off scout bees who look at potential home sites and eventually they will choose one and move there. Unless you bother them they should not be aggressive. \nIf there is a bee keeper not to far from you, it is probably his bees and it could be a couple of different swarms. Then contact the bee keeper to keep better watch on his bees. Even if it is not their swarm a bee keeper may be interested in collecting it anyway. \nIf it is the same swarm, they may be wild bees, and not having much luck with their chosen spot. \n\nI guess you must be living somewhere where it already is warm, in the north it would be very early for bees to swarm
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what color are ants most attracted to.. it's an experiment for 5th grade.
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Marching in a straight line, which is usually the shortest route, seems like a solution to the problem of efficient food transportation. Ants also search for food by walking randomly.\nTo help the ant find its home again it leaves a trail of pheromone as it looks for food. On the way back to the nest, the ant tells the other ants about food by laying down more pheromone, creating a trail with an even stronger scent.\nWhen other ants run into a trail of pheromone, they give up their own search and start following the trail. In this way the ants are not following each other but the pheromone.\n\nAnd about the bumping into...they are on the same path, may not be doing anything, possibly passing food. When they "bump into" you and you think they bite you, believe it or not that "bite" is actually them peeing on you, as their pee is acidic! Ugh!