Interesting facts about ants

Description

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Ants are small insects, type of arthropod. Public insects, in their community there is a division of males and females, workers and soldiers. Live with the colonies, building a house from a diverse number of materials, it may be twigs, blades, leaves, stones, etc. It has a cone such a form. It is impossible to tell about the structure of the anthill. It has a separation on the compartments, there are different quantities, depending on the size of the colony. They can be called like: Solarium - a place where the ants are warm in the cold season, the wintering chamber - here the ants lose winter, the queen's room - here is the uterus of ants, laid eggs, a warehouse - for storing supplies, herbs, seeds and similar, nursery - The place where the larvae hang out, the barn is a place where the ants contain TRU. Each ant know where and what the camera is located. The height of the anthill can reach 2 meters in height and the same in the depth.

Lifestyle

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The formation of the forming colony occurs during a variety of years. And has no limitations in numbers. These extremely hardworking insects are busy from the morning to night. The anthill is built, they collect food, engage in exploration, protection of the territory, care about the uterus and offspring. The uterus is larger than all in the colony, once in 5 exceeds the size of the usual worker. Soldiers have a powerful body and a big head with jaws. The remaining ants do not have significant differences.

Pheromones in the life of insects

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Ants use pheromones in a wide variety of cases. To communicate with each other, to indicate the path to the deposits of useful resources, for marking its territory. To protect the glands, located on the trouser, are fired extremely caustic toxin in the opponent. If an anthill threatens a danger, some ants sacrifice themselves, quickly reduce the muscles and explode, splashing around the contents of their abdomen.