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The army ants of South America, such as the Eciton burchellii species, and the driver ants of Africa do not build permanent nests, but instead, alternate between nomadism and stages where the workers form a temporary nest from their own bodies, by holding each other together.
We Are the Ants is a young adult science fiction novel by Shaun David Hutchinson, published January 19, 2016 by Simon Pulse [1] with a 24-page companion story, "What We Pretend to Be", published on the publisher's website, Riveted, later that year. [2] The book follows Henry, whose boyfriend recently committed suicide.
When the ants are attacked by wasps, Lucas uses a discarded firecracker to frighten them away, earning the respect of all but Zoc. Lucas is shown paintings of the Ant Mother, who is prophesied to return to the colony and provide sustenance, and the Cloud-Breather, an ominous figure who heralds death.
Longino said Tschinkel was able to blend science with storytelling, and noted that his work was both educational and entertaining. He wrote: “Walter takes the time to produce larger synthetic works that are actually entertaining”. Mark E. Laidre commended the book for its in-depth exploration of the underground nests built by ants.
Colonies of real army ants always have only one queen, while some other ant species can have several queens. The queen is dichthadiigyne (a blind ant with large gaster) but may sometimes possess vestigial eyes. [5] The queens of army ants are unique in that they do not have wings, have an enlarged gaster size and an extended cylindrical abdomen ...
Leafcutter ants live only in South America, Mexico, Central America, and a few select areas of the Southern United States, including Texas.. There are at least 55 distinct species of leaf cutter ...
The title characters, while journeying through a human home, decide to exploit a sugar bowl—full of sugar cubes—on their own rather than taking one sugar cube for themselves like the colony's queen (so each of the ants get one sugar cube and so does the queen ant). The two ants decide that instead of taking one sugar cube for themselves ...
If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse. Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight. An ant brain has about 250,000 brain cells and a human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.