Does anyone know what food ants like to eat the most?
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sugar.. and sweet stuff.. mainly saccharides...
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No they do not follow the same path. They follow a pheromone trail path set by a forager ant. The ensuing ants will reinforce that path until the food finishes. Yes they know where they are going, as they will also follow the strongest and shortest pheromone trail path.\n\nAlso, through the observation of the sudden infestation of my house with literally hundreds of ants (probably its winter). They find sugar traces in my toilet sink (I was doing some soda and mentos experiment there) :P, and a box of opened cereal at the top of my fridge.\n\nDestroying a path of ants seem to work poorly, as they still continue... they seem to operate much more actively in the day and communicate with other ants with increasing frequency when they are in the trail. Ant poison (chemical but toxic food for ants, which they will feed the queens with) seems to work a few years back and my current batch of ants seem to be taking the bait...
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Of all the animals I have eaten, I would have to say lobster is the tastiest.  Hands down.
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They can. But ants don't really walk to a destination the way we do. Most of the time they walk in a zig zag pattern leaving behind them a trail of scent back to their hole. Once they've found a food source they go back to the hole leaving behind them a different scent that other ants will pick up on and then they go to the food as well. Once a few ants start going to and from the food source from the hole all the ants around will just run back and forth bringing home the food, that's when you'll see ants running fairly straight.
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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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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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NO they dont drink water as such. they get water from the food they eat. as we know we see ants going around some sweet drinks or some kinda sugar cubes. all these contains water and so ants dont need extra water. Not only ants but there are many organisms which do not drink water for their entire life.
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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!
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A number of birds will follow driver ants and feed on them and what they stir up.  Perhaps the always common greenbuls and bulbuls.  I expect that agamas would be happy to eat them also.  Certainly several amphibian species.  As mentioned above, many mammals would probably feed on them if given the chance.  I suspect shrews and brush-furred mice should be added to the chimps and mongosses listed above.\n\nNote: anteaters are South American and aardvarks largely specialize on termites.
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what color are ants most attracted to.. it's an experiment for 5th grade.
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Mmmm... maggots.\n\nMy grandfather used to have a recipe for hawk soup.  You put the hawk in a pot of boiling water along with a fist-sized stone.  Boil both hawk and stone until the stone is tender enough to poke with a fork.  Then you throw out the hawk and eat the stone.
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Prey specialization and the predatory behavior of two European ant-eating zodariid spiders, Zodarion germanicum and Zodarion rubidum, were studied in detail. The spiders were offered 12 ant species and seven other insects (termites, beetles, aphids, silverfish, flies, crickets and grasshoppers). Study spiders turned out to be ant specialists as they were able to subdue many ant species but ignored all other insects, except termites, which they attacked but rarely subdued. The best capture success was obtained with medium-sized ants (e.g. Lasius and Formica). The predatory behavior of the zodariid spiders involves an attacking and a handling phase separated by a period of waiting at a safe distance. The attacking phase consisted of a very rapid lunge from the rear, followed by a bite on the most extended ant leg. After an attack, the spider retreated to a safe distance, perhaps an indication that natural selection has favored such caution in the presence of an aggressive prey. The spider waited until the ant ceased moving. Such predatory behavior, which limits contact with the predator and prey, is clearly an effective means of handling a dangerous prey.\n\nYou can find one from \nAustralia,Czech Republic,Greece,France,Hungary etc...
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Guinea hens are often toted as tick eaters. Oxpeckers (those little birds you see perched on the back of rinos in the nature pics) are there partly to get ticks not that they won't eat flies too. I'd bet any insect eating bird and many other insect eating animals will happly add them to the menu without inquiring if they are insects or aracnids.
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Driver Ants. They were formerly called African Army Ants or Old World Army Ants. A colony can be 10 to 20 million strong and kills anything at all that doesn't get out of their way, even an elephant. Death comes from asphyxiation as the ants crawl into the mouth, nose, and lungs of their victim.
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A.\n\n\nPS someone posted a link a few weeks ago of a video of a guy saying how there must be a God because the banada was made so perfectly for humans to eat.\n\nHmmm, and what primate eats the most and the banana is most suited for? Ya just gave me another reason to vote for evo!
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Yes, I have ants in my kitchen.  Set out some bay leaves.  Seems to have made a difference.
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Sadly enough I believe that most cockroaches are flesh eating, even the most common of house invaders.  There was a case of a woman who had multiple roach feeding sites found on her body during the autopsy.  Also roaches have been found in peoples ears and also they bite on the ear drum. I know this is all pretty nasty but sometimes the truth is.