Ant Uniqueness
Ants are all insects of the members of Formicidae, the Hymenoptera. Ants have more than 12,000 species (species), mostly living in the tropics. Most of the ants are known as social insects, with their colonies and regular nests consisting of thousands of ants per colony. Members of the colony are divided into worker ants, male ants, and queen ants. There may also be a group of guard ants. One colony can dominate a large area to support their lives. Ant colonies are sometimes called "superorganisms" because of their colonies that form a unity.
Despite its relatively small size, the ants are among the strongest animals in the world. Male ants are able to sustain loads weighing fifty times their own body weight, comparable to elephants that are only able to sustain loads weighing twice the weight of their own body. Ants are rivaled only by rhinoceros beetles capable of sustaining loads weighing 850 times their own body weight.
Formic acid is also called "acid ant" because ants produce this acid as a means of self-defense.
Here are twelve uniqueness and privileges of ants you need to know.
Ants have more than 12,000 species (Species) and most live in the tropics.
Ants are among the strongest animals in the world, though relatively small in size a male ant can sustain a load weighing fifty times its weight. Can be compared with elephants that are only able to weigh the burden weighing two times the weight of badanya.
There are several types of ants that are very familiar with humans for living around humans, such as black ants, large ants, fire ants, red ants, and ant rangrang.
Termites are not species of ants, although their social structure is the same.
Almost all parts of the earth on earth are controlled by ants, only areas of Iceland, Greenland and Hawaii that they do not control.
Ants are living insects colonized, in each colony consisting of thousands of tails that are divided into worker ants, male ants, and queen ants.
From the results of the research found that ants are the evolution of the wasps.
Ants do not have their lungs breathing with "Spirekel" (the ventilation hole located at the chest). And also do not have their closed blood circulation using "Aorta Backs" (long and thin ducts located along the top of the body) that function similarly to the heart.
The nervous system of the ant consists of a kind of ventral nerve muscle located along its body, with some ganglion and branches associated with each part of the ant body.
Most ants generally have poor eyesight, even some of them are blind. But there are also ants that have good eyesight such as the Australian Bulldog ant type.
Antenna on ants serves as a communication tool between ants one with the other ants.
The most sensory part is the head.
These are the twelve uniqueness and peculiarities of the Ants that, although small in size but have unexpected advantages. Hopefully add your insight.