CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What do ants do in nature?

1. How do ants behave in nature?

After the ants are released back into the wild, there are two situations: if they can find the scent information left by themselves or their companions, they can use the scent to find the ant nest and return to the colony; if they cannot find the scent information left by themselves or their companions, they will keep searching until they die (the lifespan of ants is only a few weeks, and if they keep searching for their own ant colony without eating, they will soon die).

2. How do ants live in nature?

How do ants live in nature?

Ants are defined biologically as insects with social habits. As there are many species, there are more than 11,700 known species in the world. The classification of species is also very complex, with 21 subfamilies and 283 genera. There are more than 600 species of ants confirmed in China. The biological classification is Arthropoda, Insecta, Hymenoptera, Spleniformes, Vespoidea, Formicidae. It can be seen that although ants are small, they have profound knowledge.

Ants are omnivores and eat both meat and vegetables, but they will not eat tofu even if there is meat. Dead insects are their favorite delicacy, and they prefer sweets. Food dropped by people is also their food source.

The ant world has the same social organization as bees, with each doing their own thing. When disaster strikes, the group cohesion is also very strong. Biologists have found that when a wildfire strikes, ants can roll down from a height in a ball as big as a football, sacrificing the outer layer to protect the inner layer and avoid total extinction. Ants have also been found floating down the flooded water in a ball. It is amazing to watch.

Ants are the strongest animals in the world, 60 times stronger than elephants, but this is calculated based on the ratio of their respective weights to what they can drag. They are known as the "Hercules" of the animal world.

"Ant" also occupies a place in the rich treasure house of Chinese language and culture.

A thousand-mile long dam can be breached by a single ant hole—a warning to people that if they don’t pay attention to small things, they will make big mistakes.

Ants gnawing on bones represents a kind of perseverance in doing things.

Ants trying to shake a tree - describes someone who overestimates his own abilities. And so on, there are many other two-part allegorical sayings with ants in them.

Ants, especially a type of termites, can cause considerable harm to human life once they become an infestation in a certain place.

Black ants are also a medicinal material for treating rheumatism.

Ants can also provide weather forecasts. If you see groups of ants "moving", it means it is going to rain heavily.

So there is no absolute bad or absolute good in anything in the world.

Originally published on October 17, 2019

3. What is the use of ants in nature?

It eliminates plant pests in nature. Bees, wasps and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera, one of the most important orders of insects. The role of these insects in nature and agricultural production is essential to maintaining ecological balance. Without bees to transfer pollen, many plants would be in danger of extinction; without ants to loosen the soil underground, the land would not be fertilized and aerated.

There are also a few ants living in Europe that can kill a large number of plant insects, especially caterpillars. Ants have long been used to control biological pests, for example, in China in the 12th century. Unfortunately, if these beneficial insects in nature enter human rooms or factories, they become pests.

4. Interesting natural phenomena of ants?

Ants moving: Ants are the animals closest to the ground, so they have the ability to sense rain. Generally, ants can know whether it has rained recently by the change in humidity in the air. Then they move their nests from low places to high places. Ants are extremely busy before the rain. It is worth noting that ants moving is not always because of rain. Ants also move when they are divided into groups.

5. What are the benefits of ants to nature?

Ants can eat some dead insects and other corpses. They can also catch insects and control pests.

It can be said that ants play a role in cleaning the land and controlling pests.

Nature cannot do without ants.

Ant-transported plants are plants whose seeds are carried and spread by ants. In the long-term co-evolution, ants and ant-transported plants have formed a mutualistic symbiotic relationship. Since the seeds of ant-transported plants are attached with oleoplasts that ants like to eat, after the ants eat the oleoplasts, they discard the seeds near the ant nest, so that the plants can spread. Ant-transported plants are widely distributed throughout the world, but are mainly distributed in Australia and South Africa. Ants mainly carry the seeds of herbaceous plants and some shrubs. Research on the mutualistic symbiotic relationship between ants and ant-transported plants shows that: ant transportation is conducive to the protection and spread of plant seeds; ant nests are conducive to seed germination, emergence and colony establishment; ant transportation is one of the important factors affecting the community structure of some temperate forests; the mutualistic symbiosis between ants and ant-transported plants plays an important role in the restoration of natural communities.

6. What will the little ants do when it rains in spring?

.1. When it rains, ants will hide in a safe place to avoid the rain. Ants will move before it rains. Ants can sense the humidity in the air. When they feel that the humidity is too high, they know that it is going to rain. Therefore, they have to move to a safer place. Ants move from lowlands to highlands to avoid being drowned by rain.

2. There is a certain relationship between ants' moving and rain, but rain is not the only reason. For example, ants cannot tolerate hunger. Without food and water, half of them will die after four days and nights. In order to find food, ants always seem busy.

7. We often see ants crawling on trees. What are they doing?

When the weather is dull or it is about to rain, ants will climb walls and trees. In fact, they are moving from low places to high places to avoid the coming storm. Because ants have many legs, these legs can help ants firmly grasp the tree trunks, and ants are light and can easily climb up the tree trunks. Ants are a common insect that lives in groups. There are many types of ants. Each type of ant is divided into female ants, male ants and worker ants. Soldier ants are a modified worker ant. Female ants and male ants have wings, while worker ants and soldier ants do not have wings. Ants have a variety of diets. Most ants dig soil to build nests and store food. In winter, they hibernate in ant nests. Some types of ants do not hibernate and spend the winter in an active state. Ants have a close relationship with humans. Some species are harmful to humans, while some species are beneficial to humans. But in general, they do more harm than good in places where humans live, so they need to be prevented and controlled.

8. What do the little ants do when autumn comes?

In autumn, ants carry food in the forest, along the roads, and carry the charming food in the warm sunshine. In autumn, the cicadas on the trees stop singing, and the crickets on the ground stop chirping. The animals are preparing for winter. Ants are omnivorous. Some species prey on insects, some eat plant seeds, some eat honeydew secreted by aphids and scale insects; there are also species that specialize in eating fungi. Indoors, ants often eat human food.

Ants have a wide range of food habits. Sometimes, in order to improve their monotonous diet, in addition to hunting, they can also raise and graze animals to improve their nutritional structure. Ants love sweets, and insects that can produce honey are often their guests, especially aphids, which are the most popular guests. The tail of aphids can produce "honeydew". Whenever ants encounter aphids, they touch the belly of the aphids with their antennae, and a drop of honeydew is immediately released. The ants feel like they have found a treasure and enjoy it to their heart's content. In order to eat this delicacy for a long time, ants take great care of aphids. They move aphids around so that they can produce more honeydew.

If winter comes, the ants will transport the aphids to their nests to overwinter, and then transport them back to the trees in the spring of the following year.