WHERE do ants carry the dead ant bodies off to???
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I believe they carry them back to the nest where they are eaten for nourishment. To them its just protein and its much easier to come by
913392
Yeah, was pretty surprised at that myself...\n\nAlso thought it was quite funny with the ants that went mad and their little mates carry them as far away from the other ants as possible....then some weird fungi pushes through their brain....very very odd!
1152123
i dont think so............ \nits a good way of observing ants
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Here's one that is over a foot long ...\n\nhttp://www.designtoscano.com/jump.jsp?itemID=4293&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C66%2C69\n\nAlso, there's a several-foot long fire ant statue in Northport, Alabama
632542
get a long-handled square shovel, a plastic bag, and stick em in your car. find the nearest roadkill and scrape it off the asphalt and into the sack. put the sack in the trunk and locate the mark's car. if the cab is accessible, place the roadkill under the front passenger seat. if you work it right u shouldn't have to touch the roadkill. if you can't get in the cab of the car, duct tape the sack with the kill in it to the exhaust pipe. The farther forward on the pipe you tape it the better.
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Ants have varying food sources AND they go through various lifecycles where they eat different things at different times of life.\n\nYes, they do usually go back to their nest and leave a chemical scent trail so the others can get back to where they found the food source.\n\nIt's possible that wood in the floor by the toilet or urine that hasn't been cleaned up, yet is attracting it.
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Ants are neat, and while that other guy was right about 'intelligence' not being a concrete concept, ants certainly can solve very complex problems.  The definitely don't wander around aimlessly and randomly like someone else suggested.  They have  incredible cognitive abilities for navigating from food sources back to their nests.  One of these is known as path integration, ants are able to keep in their memory all the different twists and turns in their path to find food so that when they do find food they can head in a straight line back to their nest.  They are also able to learn the location of different objects in their environment and use these to find their way home if they get off course, like if they get blown away by the wind or something!  When you consider that an ant's brain is smaller than the head of a pin, the amount of information they are able to hold in there and remember and manipulate, is pretty astonishing.  Using electron microscopes and neuroscience techniques, scientists have identified tiny clusters of neurons on the brains of some ants, called mushroom bodies.  They think that these structures are the sites of memory and navigational cognition in the ants. You might also find it cool to know that the navigational systems of ants have formed the basis of the navigational systems developed using artificial intelligence for robots.  And as for the division of labor, I think you are spot on.  Ants (and other eusocial insects) provide the natural world's best examples of self-organising systems and they are way cool and very neat!!!  Science nerds rock-on!
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Army ants found in Africa are called driver ants. Driver ants form huge colonies, which in some cases consist of between 10 million and 20 million workers. Driver ants have extremely powerful mandibles. Their massive swarms are capable of immobilizing and killing large prey.\n\nIf attacked you won't be dismembered and eaten, but bites from large soldiers (workers) can inflict excruciating pain. Once their jaws have snapped shut, nothing can shake them loose.\n\nColonies of these ants have no permanent nests. Instead they make temporary bivouacs by interlocking their bodies in a protective dome over the queen and her young. Periodically they use a hollow log or decaying stump for a slightly more permanent shelter. This is for about 20 days and allows the queen to lay her eggs, possibly up to 30,000 of them.\n\nThey have been known to kill Elephants believe it or not. The very few cases with human fatalites most are of them being unconscious and their calls for help being unheard.
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None, unless they were buried there.  The ones I see are usually ON the field.
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ants have six legs, so if they loose one or two they are still fine. And they don't feel the same kind of hurt than we do (at least they don't have pain receptors of a type which is comparable to ours), so an ant with a damaged or even missing leg may just walk on without being too much bothered by it. Watch their behavior, it will tell you how bad they feel (give it a minute or two).\n\nSo if you just damaged one of its legs, you should let it live, because it still can live on quite nicely. If you stepped on part of its body it is probably kinder to kill it completely because it is not going to be able to live on anyway.
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None, ants dont live in apartments. They live in colonies.
939551
It's probably a lot, but the question is hard to answer, it's just like ask how many ants are in the African Continent..☺
1090460
ants. try not eating anything on your bed, you're leaving crumbs all over.
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It would bother me being there, but I wouldn't kill it. Depending on my mood, I might leave it there...or more likely I would grab a stepstool and scoop the spider up in a jar or something (so it wouldn't bite me) and then dump it outside. I don't like squishing bugs cause you get guts everywhere. gross.
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Same as for a termite hill: most of it is inanimated. There might be a hive intelligence, but it couldn't be proven contacted by humans yet, so that's purely speculative. (Not sure about termite or ant hills, but certain about earth on no proof of contact...)
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Corpse, cadaver, worm food
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They belong to the order Hymenoptera, this means they are most closely related to bees, wasps, and sawflies. Ants are characterised by having a very narrow waist between the thorax and the abdomen, this places them in the sub-order Apocrita.\nAnts are one of the most social insect on the planet, and the bulk weight of all the ants in the tropics is more than the combined weight of all the humans on earth.\nAnts are wingless except for the reproductives. Queens will have what is called a nuptual flight where they emerge from a nest and mate with a single male. The female then starts her own colony and used the stored sperm from that one mating for the rest of her life, she can produce hundreds of thousands of eggs with this single sperm donation.\nAnt societies have different demographics, called castes, these include workers (sterile females) soldiers (with large mandibles) and one queen, sometimes more, depending on the species.\nAnts eat virtually anything, from organic materials to other insects, to pollen, nectar and honeydew (produced by aphids)\nSome ants grow their own food, like in leaf-cutter ants. They will cut pieces leaves and transport them to special chambers underground where they grow mushrooms which feed on the leaves.\n\nthats all that comes to mind for now, hope this helps!