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Ants are known to have high solidarity with one another is one of the most advanced insect species on earth, almost no insects are as strong as ants. According to the scientists, they have survived for 6 million years because they are gifted by God to be able to adapt well wherever they live.

Here a small part of the amazing facts we need to know the ant.

Ants Smarter Than You Think.

Animals with the largest brains in proportion when compared with the whole body is the ant. They are known as one of the most intelligent species among other insects. They have about 250,000 brain cells in his head.

Ants Very Expert in the Field of Agriculture.

Ants have started the farming and gardening 50 million years before humans earlier to increase the amount of their food. The ant uses highly sophisticated horticultural techniques to increase their yields. They secrete chemicals that are rich in antibiotics to inhibit the growth of fungi. Their nests are also built with a highly sophisticated system to control temperature and humidity.

An ant War Strategist.

Between different ant species, even a totally was sometimes "fight" and "fighting" each other, and this battle could continue for a few hours, days or even weeks.
One of the most widespread ant fighting a battle similar jangkauaanya Pavement Ant. And the biggest battle is between Argentine ants superkoloni that caused the fall of the millions of victims who were killed ants in one day.
Different again with the Amazon ants, they are a type of ant that likes to "enslave" the other to be a worker ant. They get slaves from the other ant invasion. Before attacking they will observe the opponents hive. After two days, amazon ants immediately attacked, they easily conquered the average opponent who had panicked and was not organized at all.

Number of Ants Very Much Once.

If calculated, 10% of the animals in the world are ants. And if it is weighed, the amount of mass of all the ants on earth equal to the sum of the masses of all humans on earth.

Can Ants Forming Superkoloni.

Ants argentina is a type of ant that likes to attack. They form a large superkoloni and a lot of in California, USA. Superkoloni has millions of nests with a range of nearly a hundred miles (hundreds of kilometers) and a depth of 6 feet below the nest. Ants from different nests in the colony but very rarely seen attacking each other with each other. Largest Superkoloni contained in southern California, with a length of 600 miles (about 965 kilometers).

Age Only a Few Months Ants In contrast to his Queen.

Ant workers only able to survive for 45-60 days, compared with the queen ant can live up to 20 years old. And when the queen dies, the ant colony can only survive a few months.

Carnivorous ants.

In Africa and Asia, there are species of ants that can kill and eat other animals bigger in a "gang". Ants were known as Driver Ant, Ant and Siafu Safari. Types of ants are very powerful hunters, and they take advantage of their numbers when stalking prey.

Driver ant ever found to kill human babies and horses that were tied up in the wood. Driver ant will kill anything that is near their nest, even 100,000 individual animals die a day because of this vicious ant colony. These ants also like to move to find their prey, such as insects, spiders, lizards, snakes, chickens and other small animals. Sometimes climb trees and attack the bird in its nest.

Like ant breeding.

Ants apart like farming, hunting and fighting, they also like to raise. And that they are not chickens livestock, especially goats cows. They raise aphids, beetles.
Ants get honey sweet honey from the secretions of the aphids. Ants will protect and give food beetles. They choose suitable plants for aphids live safely. If there are predators or parasites come, then the ants will bring the aphid elsewhere. They will maintain and defend aphids.

Slavery in Ants World.

Slave-Maker ant is a species of ants that like raiding nests of other ants and steals their pupae. And when the pupae hatch, and an ant, ants are then used as slaves in the colony.

Caste in the ant world.

The queen ant is larger than the workers. They have the thorax and abdomen are larger than the workers. Having found a new colony, the queen's task is to produce a lot of worker ants, bull ants and other queens. They can live for 20 years and can produce thousands of eggs in her life. Ant males have the smallest body in the castes of ants. Their job is only one, that is to fertilize the queen mating rituals. And will die after a few days.
Ant workers have the task of feeding, caring for babies, build a nest and keep the colony and queen. Army ants are characterized by having a large head served to keep their nest from attack. Thank you for reading this article.
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