AnswersDriveWhen Ants Go Marching, They Count Their Steps. An ant with red dyed stilts overshoots its goal because its increased stride length interferes with its internal pedometer. Ants use an internal pedometer to find their way home without getting sidetracked, a new study reports.
Consequently, can an ant live alone?
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, worker ants that live alone have one-tenth the life span of those that live in small groups. (“First, some ant species are difficult to mark because they remove or chew the tags,” the researchers wrote.
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Can an ant survive in space?
But if you mean "live in the vacuum of space", then no, they would not be able to live. No food, air or water. They would die pretty quickly, in fact. But they can live just fine in zero gravity inside the ISS.
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Can ants hear music?
Hearing is the sensing of sound. So in that sense, ants cannot "hear" clear cut sounds like music or speech, but they can detect vibrations like we do.
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Why do ants kiss each other when they meet?
When they meet another ant, they stroke their antennae on them to know about their identity and get information about food availability etc. However, there is an interesting behavior called trophallaxis, which is more like kissing, but what happens there is that the ants exchange food (mostly regurgitated liquid).
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Do ants have blood in them?
Ants and other invertebrates do not have blood like mammals do, rather they have haemolymph, a colorless mixture of blood and interstitial fluid. Ants do have a nervous system very similar in nature to our own. They even possess brains with many of the same features that human brains do, albeit much more primitive.
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Do ants have kidneys?
No, because insects don't pee. They have an equivalent of kidneys called "Malpighian tubules" that collect uric acid, but this gets mixed into their hindgut and is pooped out with the food waste. They have a rectum, though.
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How do ants reproduce sexually?
Among species that reproduce sexually, the queen selectively uses the sperm cells retained from the nuptial flight, laying fertile or unfertile eggs depending upon the cyclic needs of the colony; the sex of each individual ant is determined by whether or not the egg is fertilized.
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How do ants make a baby?
Ants have complete metamorphosis. Queen ants lay eggs. The baby ant that hatches from the egg is a larva, with no legs, just a soft white body like a worm and a small head. The larvae are fed by the queen (in the first generation) and then by workers.
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Can an ant colony survive without a queen?
Ant Colony Survival Without a Queen. An ant colony may survive for the duration of the lifetime of the worker ants. The simple reason is that, without the queen to lay eggs, no other new member are added to the colony. Since all the workers are sterile, the ants do not survive for long without the queen.
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Do ants have weiners?
According to Dr. Jim Fredericks of the National Pest Management Association: "In short, the answer to your question is no. Penis is a mammal term, but ants do have an equivalent organ that delivers sperm."
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Do ants reproduce quickly?
The worker and soldier ants will never mate or lay eggs. New queens (and drones to mate with them) are produced periodically, and usually leave the nest to start their own colonies. In your example, so long as one of your 1000 ants is a queen, you can reach a million in a few years, maybe sooner.
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How many babies do ants have at one time?
In just a few days, a single army ant queen can lay up to 300,000 eggs. In part because of such attention, but also for genetic reasons not fully understood, the queen in many species lives essentially forever—at least from the perspective of her descendants in the colony.
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Do ants lay eggs in the house?
Odorous house ants will nest in virtually every imaginable location. Odorous house ant colonies tend to have numerous, egg-laying queens and the primary colonies may split into smaller ones for no apparent reason. Ants foraging indoors feed on all manner of foods, ranging from the trash can to the cereal bowl.
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How can you tell a queen ant?
See if there are wings on the ant. In many ant colonies, the queen is born with wings. During many parts of a queen's adult life, she will need to fly to find a new colony for mating. The types of male ants that have wings will generally look more slender and wasp like than a queen, who will generally be larger.
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Do ant eggs move?
Moving to a new place is no small feat when it comes to ants: after they've found a new place that suits them, they have to move all their stuff there, too, not just themselves. That stuff is the young of the colony: eggs, larvae, pupae and newly eclosed (hatched) individuals, both workers, queens and males.
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Do sugar ants bite you?
The sugar ant is a rather mild-mannered ant that does not sting. When disturbed, the insect may defend itself by using its mouthparts to bite. These bites are not painful and do not produce any symptoms unless the person is highly allergic.
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Do ants walk?
Other common insects like cockroaches have no trouble walking upside down on truly smooth surfaces. Like ants, and most other insects, cockroaches have tiny claws at the ends of their feet. They also have special, sticky pads between their claws that can form a tight seal with a smooth surface.
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Why do ants bump into each other?
So they may walk into each other rather frequently. Otherwise, ants do communicate by touch (tapping each other with antennae, for example) and by smell, best done by putting their antennae together. So physical contact is a natural part of their daily life. The introverted ant starves quickly.
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Why ants are going in a line?
The scent that the ants leave behind is called pheromone. The ants walk in a line because they follow the scent left behind by the leader.
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Do lobsters feel pain when you cook them?
But the research on whether or not these creatures feel pain is still inconclusive. And while lobsters react to sudden stimulus, like twitching their tails when placed in boiling water, the institute suggests that they do not have complex brains that allow them to process pain like humans and other animals do.