do ants have blood?

Question

Do red ants have blood?

Answer 1

yeah they do try squashing one.

Answer 2

Insects, like all other arthropods, have an open circulatory system which differs in both structure and function from the closed circulatory system found in humans and other vertebrates. In a closed system, blood is always contained within vessels (arteries, veins, capillaries, or the heart itself). In an open system, blood (usually called hemolymph) spends much of its time flowing freely within body cavities where it makes direct contact with all internal tissues and organs. So No ants don't have a heart The circulatory system is responsible for movement of nutrients, salts, hormones, and metabolic wastes throughout the insect's body. In addition, it plays several critical roles in defense: it seals off wounds through a clotting reaction, it encapsulates and destroys internal parasites or other invaders, and in some species, it produces (or sequesters) distasteful compounds that provide a degree of protection against predators. The hydraulic (liquid) properties of blood are important as well. Hydrostatic pressure generated internally by muscle contraction is used to facilitate hatching, molting, expansion of body and wings after molting, physical movements (especially in soft-bodied larvae), reproduction (e.g. insemination and oviposition), and evagination of certain types of exocrine glands. In some insects, the blood aids in thermoregulation: it can help cool the body by conducting excess heat away from active flight muscles or it can warm the body by collecting and circulating heat absorbed while basking in the sun.

Answer 3

All ants have blood but they don't have blood vessels or circulatory system like humans or other mammals do.

"Inside Ants do not have lungs. Oxygen enters through tiny holes all over the body and Carbon Dioxide leaves through the same holes. There are no blood vessels. The heart is a long tube that pumps colorless blood from the head back to the rear and then back up to the head again. The blood kind of coats the insides of the ants and is then sucked into the tube and pumped up to the head again."

Answer 4

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Answer 5

All insects have blood, it is called haemolymph. This "blood" does not act in the same way as ours does however. Insects have an open circulatory system, and thus the "blood" is not carried in a network of veins and arteries like our, their blood does not transport oxygen, instead it transports enzymes, nutrients, minerals, waste products, water, and haemocytes (similar to our white blood cells).

Insect blood is usually colourless, however some insects have coloured blood, some, like Chironomid larvae have red blood because they live in oxygen depleted habitats.
Ant blood is clear or somewhat cloudy in appearance, it is not red like that of vertebrates and some inverts.

The red colour of red ants is not related to blood at all, it is actually a structural pigment of their exoskeleton that gives them the red appearance, not whats inside them. The exoskeleton is not transparent, so even if their blood was fluorescent green, you wouldn't be able to see it.

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Answer 6

Ants do not have blood it's the colour. They are just like Non but living things.

Answer 7

Actually, no. They are sustained by a mystical life-force stemming from the Queen Ant, or Hive-Mind.

Answer 8

No, they don't have blood such that we have. Insects have a white substance in their bodies that carries fluids around.

Answer 9

Maybe, they would have to have some kind of fluid in their body.

Answer 10

Yea, I think that's how they have their red color + genetics.

Answer 11

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