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Watashii

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Amazing ant facts.

- Ants are small, but they can carry a great weight
- Ants have more legs than humans
- There are ants in different shapes and sizes

What other mind-blowing facts about ants do you know of?

Cyral

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From: United States

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 2,269

Re: Amazing ant facts.

The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is roughly equal to the total biomass of all the people on Earth.

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Zoey2070

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

Ants live in hills. I think.

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GKAbyss

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

Fire ants can clump together to form rafts in the case of flooding.
If the raft is forced underwater they form a bubble shape with air in the middle which they breathe.

Arceus64

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

Ants are one of the many insects you can unknowingly kill as you walk throughout your day.

AzurePudding

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

When an ant is killed, they release a scent that warns other nearby ants to scurry away quickly.

Tako

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From: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

What an advanced anthill looks like underground.

It's interesting how they make things like that without any [useful] form of communication.

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Saintcool

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

Ants have compound eyes.
Ants can be winged, worker, queen or honeypot.
The Honeypot and only occurs in Carpenter ants as apposed to Garden or Fire ants.

krubby

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Joined: 2015-06-23

Posts: 1,190

Re: Amazing ant facts.

The Honeypot and only occurs in Carpenter ants as apposed to Garden or Fire ants.

There's more species with that than just carpenter, and the carpenters where I live don't have honeypots. But yeah, those things are DAMN awesome. They're ants that just sit there and eat all extra honey until ther butt is huge and they can't even move. Then when ants are starving they burst open the honey ant (killing it) and eat all the stuff inside.

Some ants raise aphids for farms! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAA!!!!!!!

Leafcutter ants don't eat leaves, they take the leaves to their home where they let a fungus grow on, which they then harvest for food.

Army ants like to chase down cars and eat communists apparently.

There's one ant colony that spans thousands of miles and multiple continents. (It's not all one subterranean complex, but when ants from different areas meet each other they will treat each other like normal work mates instead of killing each other).

Those big pincer things are called mandibles. :0

The queen can grow wings and stuff.

Almost every ant you have ever killed was female, you god awful sexist.

I might say some more stuff later.

Muffin

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

My aunt has 3 children called "cousins" :O

(come on, that pun had to happen)

Saintcool

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

Krubby army ants is just a nickname, and the queen will grow wings, as well as male ants.

krubby

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Joined: 2015-06-23

Posts: 1,190

Re: Amazing ant facts.

Krubby army ants is just a nickname, and the queen will grow wings, as well as male ants.

I was referencing that horrible 4th Indiana Jones movie...

Arceus64

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

What an advanced anthill looks like underground.

It's interesting how they make things like that without any [useful] form of communication.

That video scared me.

Onjit

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Joined: 2015-02-15

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

Ants are insects.

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Deetz

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

Ants are living in colonies
They have heiarchy of society even without useful communication.
That is all.

Buzzerbee

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Re: Amazing ant facts.

The singular form of "ants" has three letters in it, I've heard.

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skullz17

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 6,699

Re: Amazing ant facts.

Horrible bullet ants:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarqiOM4-Fg[/youtube]

In that tribe, you have to go through the process 20 times before you are declared a true man.

Just doing it once made Steve cry.

EDIT: I feel like after I posted that everyone has been put off ants and therefore have stopped posting on this topic :/

Last edited by skullz16 (Jan 15 2013 3:41:27 pm)

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