Do ants breathe like us?

Question

Do invertebrates have lungs?
I am practicing a Buddhist meditation on the delicate respiratory process (breathing) as a basis for compassion.

Answer 1

Ants breathe but not like humans. They do not have lungs, they have small pores in their abdomens called stomata.

There are other invertebrates that do have lungs though, even some things you would consider an insect such as arachnids.

Spiders have something called a book lung which is a very simple form of lung, and one reason why spiders tend to drown much more easily than many other insects do.

By the way, since you have a computer obviously, you may find it interesting to do a net search on the game sim-ant which has some excellent information built in. It is a simulation of how ant nests operate. It's more of an educational software tool than a computer game but it is fun.

Answer 2

Ants breathe, but not like us. Like many kinds
of animals they have no lungs. Instead they
have tracheae, which have small round openings
(not just on the abdomen) that lead to a system
of branching tubes that extend to all cells of the
body. Gas exchange occurs through the thin
walls of these tubes.

In large insects expansion and contraction of
the abdomen is often used to pump air in and
out of the tracheae. Simple diffusion is not fast
enough to supply the needs of a large animal,
though in the case of most invertebrates their
need for oxygen is not as great as in a vertebrate animal. This is because they are (mostly)
smaller and have a lower metabolic rate.

Answer 3

Insects don't have longs, as aforementioned; they breathe through spiracles--tiny holes--in their abdomens. These holes are connected to microscopic tubes that branch out through their bodies; it is through the walls of these tubes that they exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide.

It works very well at insect-scale, but rapidly becomes inefficient at greater sizes--hence, the smallness of insects, and one of the reasons that ants the size of cars are physically impossible.

Answer 4

all living things have lungs, the purpose of lungs is to supply a gas to the parts of an organism that need it. trees breathe carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. fish get oxygen from the water via gills and humans via there lungs from the air. ants do have lungs, but in what form i dont know

Answer 5

no they dont .ants have diffrent respiratory mechanism which is much diffrent from ours because of there smaller size they cant accomodate such a complicated respiratory mechanism like humans. instead like most oyher insects they use spirackles fo gaseous exchange

Answer 6

i think they do.
i once tried to submerge the head of an ant in water and it died just after a after a few seconds.

Answer 7

I think we take deeper breaths.

Answer 8

No. No.

Answer 9

nope,they don't.