how much weight can an ant lift?
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it can lift 10 times of its body weight.Its true really see discovery
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What are of you people talking about the ants rule the population. one small caibbean ant colonies combined has the world's population. so ants rule the population (those queen ants can work...wow).
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Lmao!! This question cracks me up....couldn't stay away.\n\nThis is how I see it: Both would definitely be...well, let's just say, weird. Think about it though, if you were one inch tall imagine what other types of creatures will be roaming around down there with you. Snakes, spiders, ants (remember they can carry 100 times their weight) milipeeds, small rodents, beatles, ticks etc. etc. Imagine it...all just your size or larger.\nThen what? Suddenly you're dinner! \nGive me 20 feet anyday!\n\nThanks for the laugh! Wonderfully silly question.
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None, ants dont live in apartments. They live in colonies.
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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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The genus Atta is the pinnacle of Attine evolution, with 15 species representing the premier leaf-cutting ants. The huge queens, well over an inchlong, are efficient egg-laying machines, giving rise to worker populations as large as several million individuals. The workers are strongly polymorphic, varying in length from about 1/16 to 5/8 inches, and correspondingly, a several hundred-fold increase in body weight! \n\nThis is what I could find on the Atta...Here is the website on the total Leafcutter Ants issus...well one website anyways. (The first site listed is what I found this info under)
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4 pounds. But do it sparingly.
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insects have an ectoskeleton, it's on the outside.  It's like armour.  Now imagine if they were the size of humans, it would be very easy for them to take over the world.  They'd be unstoppable!
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it depends on what sort of nutrition an ant hive is lacking.  sugar provides quick energy and nutrition for adult workers, but doesn't provide enough fats and protein for a hive that is tending a new brood of larvae.\n\ncheese is a good source of fats and protein, and also contains some sugar.  it is also more aromatic than most sugars, and so the ants can detect it from farther away.\n\npeanut butter is another good all purpose bait to use for ants, and also for almost all mammals.
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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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at the scale of an ant, the wall is actually pretty rough, so its like climbing a cliff. look above for info on how their feet have suckers and hooks - it like a combination of metal spikes and batmans suction cups.
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yes it would, even considering the acceleration of gravity. you still have to factor in terminal velocity. The mass of the ant compared to its area and wind resistance would limit it's speed during it's fall. After approximately 10ft, it wouldn't gain anymore speed. Quite possibly, with the wind, it would land several blocks away.
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Weight the person has to lift = mass of the bucket * accelaration due to gravvity\nWeight the person has to lift = 24 * 9.8 J \nWork done = weight lifted * DIstace\n8*1000 J = 24 * 9.8 * Distance\nDistance = 24*9.8/8*1000 meters\nDistance = 3*9.8/1000 meters\nWell this is the answer. Right now i am feeling quite lazy to calculate all this. Hope you can manage with this answer. \nThanks
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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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well if you consider that some individual colonies have more people than some small cities, then definatly. It is hypothesised that the weight of ants on the planet exceeds the total wieght of every person on the planet.\nLets look at it form a different perspective, it takes roughly 2.5 million ants to weight 170-180 pounds which is a rough average human weight, now, there are about 5 billion people on the planet, thats quite a bit, but then you should consider that the number of ants is 2.5 million times that number......I dont even think they have a name for such a number!
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All female ants have wings when they hatch. After they hatch, they take a maiden flight where they are met with swarms of male ants. She mates many times, then seeks out a nesting place to make a colony, breaks off her wings, and tunnels underground to start her colony. This is how you tell mated females from unmated females: the unmated females still have their wings.\n\nWhen an ant colony loses their queen, they will sometimes split into two or more colonies. It is not known how or why they select a particular larva, but the drones all begin feeding a single larva a special diet (NOT royal jelly - this is specific to bees, which are related to ants and have similar biology and behavior to ants). This special diet causes the larva to grow larger than others, and become a fully reproductive female (the other "females" in the colony are sterile - same as bees). Once this larva hatches, she mates, breaks off her wings, and becomes the new queen. \n\nIn many cases, several larvae will be fed the diet to become fully reproductive females, but only one will become queen of that colony, the others will go with the rest of the colony if it splits, or they will go on to form their own colony. As someone mentioned above, a queenless colony, on occasion, will meld with another colony that still has a queen. But as far as I understand, it is more common for the queenless colony to raise several new queens that will be dispersed where needed.\n\nThere is a lot of research going on right now with both bees and ants to figure out how this selection of a new quieen occurs and why it is so consistent. Also, how a queen (bee or ant) can mate during one flight in her entire life, yet produce viable eggs for some 20 years or so after...how does the male sperm stay viable within her for that long? This all has yet to be discovered.\n\nBees and ants are just the coolest insects and there's so much we have yet to discover about them!
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Ants, like all insects, have 6 legs. Arachnids, such as spiders, have 8 legs.