Ants will not sleep. True or False?
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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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i was camping in hawaii (in a tent)\nand i had more than one cockroach crawl into my sleeping bag\nluckily they don't bite.\nnot a furry animal but entertaining anyways
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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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not primarily, they can learn to stay up late, \nbut they sleep at night usually.\n\nThey swim in circles while sleeping, we think \nmaybe one half of the brain sleeps while the outside\neye remains open and semi-aware...
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They are not getting enough sleep.\n\nSee these links.
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Yes, but it is always changing and is usually quite close to that of the outside ambient temperature. Insects are what are called Poikilothermic or ectothermic animals, they are unable to maintain a contant body temperature through metabolism like mammals and birds can.\nSome insects however have found ways of controling the temperature of their bodies slightly. This occurs mostly with social insects. I wont get into too much detail here but insects like termites actually orient their mounds north-south to collect the warmth of the rising sun, these are the so called "magnetic" termites. Most other termites actually leave an opening in the top of the mound to allow heat to escape, this escaping hot air pulls in cool air surroundign the nest, and cools it down.\nBees will often use their wings to circulate air into the hive to cool down, and they will also become much more active when it is cold to warm up.\n\nhope this helps!
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Actually, ants have been shown to suffer no ill effects when dropped from ANY height. Their terminal velocity is not sufficient for them to sustain injury.
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Yes fish sleep.They cannot close their eyes because they do not have eye lids.some fishes sleep with their one half of the brain at a time so that the other half is active n helps the fish in escaping predators.Some fishes sleep at the bottom n few float while sleeping.Some have particular sites for sleeping as we have beds.
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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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i dont think so............ \nits a good way of observing ants
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African Driver Ants are vicious.  Some tribes leave their dead out for the ants for one night, and collect the clean bones in the morning (This is NOT an exaggeration).
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Because the ant has such a large surface area comparative to its mass, it's likely that at any height on Earth when atmosphere is present that an ant will survive the fall.\n\nThere are several species of ant which are able to glide, maneuvering their body as they fall.  These are mostly tree-dwelling species in places like the Amazon rainforest.  If they happen to fall from a tree, they simply glide back to the trunk of the tree and climb back up.
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they tell to sleep without doing anything
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The cockroach is an omnivore, that is, it eats everything edible, animal and vegetable. So if we do not move around too much while sleeping they might be inclined to nibble on our earlobes at night. They are rarely aggressive enough to attack us while we are awake. When visiting Tulane University in New Orleans many years ago I slept in a dormitory room and cockroaches were flying down from the ceiling onto my head. I would guess that these large American cockroaches, _Periplaneta americana_, would be capable of taking a good bite out of me.  Only the larger species could take a bite through our skin. Of course the skin of children is much more tender and vulnerable to a roach bite. If the bite becomes infected it is possible for it to leave a scar.
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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!)
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I don't believe that ants sleep because they are always busy doing something.
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I tried answering the other question, but will try again.\n\nImagine a huge sheet of rubber with ants crawling of it. Now imagine that the sheet is being stretched and that the ants are crawling fairly slowly. On average, two ants will be moving away from each other due to the stretching of the sheet and those ants that are farther away from each other will be moving away from each other faster. However, if you have two ants that are fairly close, they can be moving closer to each other because of the way they crawl., even though the sheet is being stretched.\n\nThis is what happens with galaxies in the universe. Space itself is like the rubber sheet. The overall expansion of the universe is like the stretching of that sheet. However, each galaxy is also moving in space (like the ants crawl). The result is that galaxies that are far away from each other are moving away from each other faster on average. But those that are really close to each other can be moving togethe rbecause of their peculiar motion (the crawling) even though the space itself is stretching.\n\nNow, if you want to get an accurate picture of the expansion, it is best to look at galaxies that are far apart since the crawling will be overwhelmed by the stretching. In reality, some close galaxies are moving closer to us and others are moving away, but this is mostly because of the crawl part of the motion.