Friday 27 June 2014

Are all Ants social?



Are all Ants social?

Besides the common black and yellow ants there are fifteen thousand other varieties of this immense family of insects, belonging to the same order as the bees and wasps.  All ants are social and live in colonies. Each colony has one or more egg laying female which we call the queen. The others are known as the workers and they are sterile and wingless females. Their part is to collect food, rear the young and defend the house. The queens of most species have wing and they fly out in mating swarms. After mating the male dies and females return to the ground and shed her wings. Their food consists of seeds, leftovers, insects, nectar and pests that make it beneficial to the man. Their size ranges from one millimetre to thirty five millimetres and they come mainly in red, yellow and black colours.
HABITAT: Open land, trees.
DIET: Seeds, leftovers, insects, nectar and pests.
SIZE:  One millimetre to 35 millimetres.
COLOUR: Red, Yellow and Black.

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