Do any species of ant lose thier wings after only one flight?
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yes, actually most species of ants do this.  the winged ants are the queens and reproductive males of the next generation.\n\nthey leave their home nests all at the same time, and have a big royal party in the air.  after they mate, the queens shed their wings, burrow into the ground and start a whole new ant colony - never to fly to again.
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i one had an ant cleaning my deposited bacteria.. oh how i loved that ant it was my pride and joy however 1 day i was walking in the forest and a giant bear attacked me... ill never forget that day when i lost my ant quite sad really...
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depend on how fast you flap your wings, or should i said your arm. Flap flap\n\nOne more fact: fat fly take longer to get from one point to another
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Birds could fly with only 1 wing if if was "falling" in one direction, if not, then it can not fly. \nHuman Nature, people always want to be better than each other
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I saw a documentary on ants once and it really impressed me about their sacrificial nature.\n\nA colony of ants was moving and it came to a stream. Immediately, the front ants strung themselves together to form a bridge across the moving stream. Once the ant-bridge was formed, all the other ants were able to cross to the other side.\n\nThe sacrifice of some enables the colony to survive.\n\nJohn 15:13\n"Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his brothers."
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I don't think anybody will be able to pin it down to one specific insect species, because first, how do you measure smartness, and how do you compare it between species, which show very different behavior. \nAs far as complexity of behavior and brain size is concerned, I think the social insects as a group will be smarter than the non-social ones. Being social adds a whole new repertoire of behavior due to the need to constantly interact with nestmates versus non-nestmates. In addition, social insect species have a home - which they have to find again!\nSocial insect behavior range from dance communication of honey bees, to pheromone communication of ants, pathfinding in ants, individual face recognition in some wasps species. \n\nAs far as specific sources are concerned, there are many papers published, below a link to a random one which came up when I typed in "learning memory insect". You will be able to find thousands more.
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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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For a while, humans had a firm grip on the aerodynamics of fixed wing flight, and found that those rules didn't correctly explain the aerodynamics of moving bumblebee wings.\n\nNone of which menas that our understanding of flixed wing flight was hopelessly flawed, or that bumblebees fly with the help of tiny angels, or anything like that.  It just means that you can't accurataly understand a phenomena by applying inapplicable theories to it.  \n\nNow , we know the aerodynamics of bumblebees better; specifically, we know the aerodynamics of the small vortices created by insect wings better, so that I believe we do now have accurate hypotheses to apply to bumblebees flight.
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Ants are particularly misunderstood.  People like to think they are at least a little intelligent and highly cooperative, but in reality everything they do, all the way down to the determination of which caste they will be in, is government by innate reactions to different chemical pheromones.  They're totally mindless, but have evolved brilliantly, to the point that some species actively wage war on other species and even enslave them.  There is another species that lives in the Far East and builds earthen towers at the entrance of the colony to act as levees during monsoon season.
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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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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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If it has wings it's a "fly"\nIf it doesn't it's  "grounded"!!! \nThat was a cute question. I'd never thought of that....LOL ;o)
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no.  insects have six legs.
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at this point, I am very concerned since only insects outnumber the birds in the world and they are airborn. The mutation could occur at any moment and infect humans. This is how the flu of 1917 or so occured and spread rapidly
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A termite ( subtereanean) lives up to 40 feet below the ground surface and sends its workers to feed on cellouse in wood or products made from wood.  the workers are whiteish colored, while the adults are black with two body segments. the adults develope wings when they swarm during a sharp weather change but shed them quickly after a short flight. An ant has three body segments, lives outside mainly but can come in to a structure or nest in a structure if enough moisture is advailable to them, ie pipe condensation or roof leaks, etc.
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Some ants can live a long time, while other ants have very short life spans. A species of worker ants in Africa only live for a few weeks, while one queen ant held in a German laboratory was 29 years old! Ants usually live in colonies. At the center of the colony is one or more queen ants -- these are females who lay eggs. Many smaller male ants work hard to feed and care for the queen. Not surprisingly, queens generally live longer than male worker ants. As I learned at a great site called ZoomSchool, ants usually live only 6 to 10 weeks!
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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