About ants? In the absence of a queen...?
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You need to collect workers and some very young larvae (grubs) so that the workers can feed the babies the special food (in bees it's called royal jelly) that makes them turn into queens.
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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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I was just doing a study of this the other day.  These are my results: (type of ant, IQ score, and comments)\n\nFire Ants - 53 - their just stuuuuuupid\n\nCarpenter Ants - 125 - they have to pass the carpenters exam and are always brushing up on their skills.\n\nAcrobat Ants - 75 - Don't need brains to join the circus.\n\nPharaoh Ants - 176 - Its great to be king\n\nLittle Black Ants - 98 - faily intellegent during the month of June, August, October and April.  \n\nPavement Ants - 69 - How long would you live and be able to learn if you lived on the pavement?  \n\nCrazy Ants - ??? - Couldn't get them down from the roof because they were guiding all the ships away from the rocks being the lighthouse that they think they are.\n\nOdorous House Ants - 122 - When you smell that bad, all you have are brains\n\nArgentine Ants - 92 - bon de rappeler qu'à cette époque la dictature argentine était considérée par nos amis communistes comme une bonne \n\nGhost Ants - 118 - could have been higher but they all passed into the light before the test was finished.\n\nWhite Footed Ants - 107 - Don't you just love these shoes????\n\nThief Ants - 198 - These results are pending an investigation.
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Ants have highly notable evolutionary mathematical instincts - just observe their colonies, chemically-organized behavior, and communal actions (e.g. marching, hunting, defending, etc.) as ONE creature.  They often build multilayer interlocking bridges (many times out of their own bodies), for instance, for other ants to cross over - suggesting that their geometrical instincts and architectural abilities are at least 3D)   ... However, if you like to "suppose" that they possess mathematical "reasoning", then why simply limit yourself to dimensional worlds?   ... Why not suppose that a first ant geometry can describe anomalously Transdimensional worlds, as well?   ... See, it pays to think like an ant, or at least a mathematician!   lol
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ants. try not eating anything on your bed, you're leaving crumbs all over.
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We are all just little ants in his f*cked up little ant farm...god doesn't give a sh*t about you...\n666
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http://www.calacademy.org/naturalhistory/ants.html
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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!
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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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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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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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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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The life cycle of the ant consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Fertilized eggs produce female ants (queens, workers, or soldiers); unfertilized eggs produce male ants. \nEgg: Ant eggs are oval shaped and tiny (they are on the order of 1 mm long, but the queen's egg is many times larger). \n\nLarva: The worm-like larvae have no eyes and no legs; they eat food regurgitated by adult ants. The larvae molt (shed their skin) many times as they increase in size. \n\nPupa: After reaching a certain size, the larva spins a silk-like cocoon around itself (against a solid object, like the wall of the chamber) and pupates. During this time the body metamorphoses (changes) into its adult form. \n\nAdult: The pupa emerges as an adult. The entire life cycle usually lasts from 6 to 10 weeks. Some queens can live over 15 years, and some workers can live for up to 7 years.
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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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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..☺
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I've never heard that, but small seeds are moved about by ants, so it is possible.
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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.