Why don't ants drown in heavy rain storms?

Question

It can pour for two or three days and you go out after it stops and there they are with their little hills all cleared away and ready to annoy someone.

Answer 1

Usually the construction of the anthill itself allows water to drain very rapidly. Most anthills are filled with tunnels that drain the water from the hill. There are even ants, like fire ants, that have a central hill that is covered with a hard covering of soil and their entrances and exits are several feet from the central mound. Rain water runs off of the hard covering like it does off of a roof of a house. But if the hill is flooded, some ants will drown but most will cling to sticks or leaves or to each other and float on the floodwater. Ants also move their brood or immature forms away from the water. Sometimes after a rain, ants will have to re-excavate their nest because the wet soil collapses and closes the tunnels. As always, insects are very resourceful when it comes to survival.

Answer 2

They bypass into their domicile. Their mounds are outfitted strategically so as that rain and water received't get interior. "construct their nests in sandy or nicely-drained soil that absorbs moisture and dries with out delay, and others construct mounds with water-resistant roofs. "

Answer 3

the ants go marching one by one , down into the ground to get out of the rain...

Answer 4

i guess like every speicy they adapt to there enviroment so that they could survive. So the ants prolly have some method on what to do when it starts rainin

Answer 5

They gather together and make like a raft, they float together!

Answer 6

They can hold there breath for a very long time.

Answer 7

SCUBA gear? Good question.