any thing about ants?

Answer 1

They belong to the order Hymenoptera, this means they are most closely related to bees, wasps, and sawflies. Ants are characterised by having a very narrow waist between the thorax and the abdomen, this places them in the sub-order Apocrita.
Ants are one of the most social insect on the planet, and the bulk weight of all the ants in the tropics is more than the combined weight of all the humans on earth.
Ants are wingless except for the reproductives. Queens will have what is called a nuptual flight where they emerge from a nest and mate with a single male. The female then starts her own colony and used the stored sperm from that one mating for the rest of her life, she can produce hundreds of thousands of eggs with this single sperm donation.
Ant societies have different demographics, called castes, these include workers (sterile females) soldiers (with large mandibles) and one queen, sometimes more, depending on the species.
Ants eat virtually anything, from organic materials to other insects, to pollen, nectar and honeydew (produced by aphids)
Some ants grow their own food, like in leaf-cutter ants. They will cut pieces leaves and transport them to special chambers underground where they grow mushrooms which feed on the leaves.

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Answer 2

Ants are one of the most successful groups of insects in the animal kingdom
They can constitute up to 15% of the total animal biomass of a tropical rainforest; in the Amazon the combined weight of the ants is said to be four times larger than that of the tetrapods in the same area. It has also been estimated that the combined weight of all ants exceeds the weight of mankind
As of 2006, there are 11,880 known ant species, most of which reside in hot climates
Ants are classified as a family, Formicidae, belonging to the order Hymenoptera which also includes sawflies, bees and wasps. Ants are a lineage derived from within the vespoid wasps.
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Hexapoda

Class: Insecta

Subclass: Pterygota

Infraclass: Neoptera

Superorder: Endopterygota

Order: Hymenoptera

Suborder: Apocrita

Superfamily: Vespoidea

Family: Formicidae

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Answer 3

Ants are one of the most successful groups of insects in the animal kingdom. They are of particular interest because they are social insects and form highly organized colonies or nests which sometimes consist of millions of individuals. Colonies of invasive ant species will sometimes work together and form super-colonies, spanning a very wide area of land. Ant colonies are sometimes described as superorganisms because they appear to operate as a single entity.

Ants have colonized almost every landmass on Earth. They can constitute up to 15% of the total animal biomass of a tropical rainforest; in the Amazon the combined weight of the ants is said to be four times larger than that of the tetrapods in the same area. It has also been estimated that the combined weight of all ants exceeds the weight of mankind[citation needed].

As of 2006, there are 11,880 known ant species, most of which reside in hot climates.


Ancestry
Ants are classified as a family, Formicidae, belonging to the order Hymenoptera which also includes sawflies, bees and wasps. Ants are a lineage derived from within the vespoid wasps. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that ants evolved from other groups of wasps in the Cretaceous period about 120 to 170 million years ago. After the rise of angiosperms about 100 million years ago, ant evolution also showed rapid change, and by about 60 million years ago ants had moved to ecological dominance [1]. Several fossils from the Cretaceous are intermediate in form between wasps and ants, further confirming the wasp ancestry of ants. Like other Hymenoptera, the genetic system employed by ants is Haplodiploidy.

In 1966 E. O. Wilson et al. obtained the first remains of an ant from the Cretaceous, Sphecomyrma freyi. The specimen was trapped in amber that was more than eighty million years old. This species provides evidence of a link between modern ants and non-social wasps. Cretaceous ants shared a couple of wasp-like traits together with modern ant-like characteristics.

During the Cretaceous times, representatives of only a few species of primitive ants ranged widely on what was the super-continent Laurasia (the northern hemisphere). They were scarce in comparison to other insects (about only 1%). It was adaptive radiation which gave ants the dominance at the beginning of the Tertiary Period. Of the species extant in the Cretaceous and Eocene eras, only 1 of about 10 genera is now extinct. 56% of the genera represented on the Baltic amber fossils (early Oligocene), and 96% of the genera represented in the Dominican amber fossils (apparently early Miocene) still survive today.

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Answer 4

My fathers ex is from Colombia, South America, and her and her kids love to eat ants. Couldn't believe it at first, then the kid ate one in front of me, opened her mouth and sure enough there were little ant legs on her tongue......disgusting. I am glad I am American

Answer 5

They are insects out of which some bite and some dont.

Answer 6

Some bite and some do not.

Answer 7

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