Ants Show Highest grade of Social Behavior which are adapted to live in colonies with more caste differentiation
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Ants Show Highest grade of Social Behavior which are adapted to live in colonies with more caste differentiation. These mounds are made up of the dirt sand and other material the ants must remove as they dig the underground tunnels and chamber in which they nest. In fact most ant colonies stretch deep underground, Some even as deep as 25 feet.
Queen :
- The Queen Ant, as her name suggests is both the founder and leader of the colony. Her primary function is to populate the colony by laying thousands of Eggs.
- The Queen’s chambers are located deep within the ant colony as a protection againest predators.
- Queen Ants live much Longer.
Drones:
Drones are male ants whose only function is to mate with the queen so she can lay her eggs.
Drones die as soon as they’ve fullfilled this function and are rarely encountered outside the colony.
Workers:
- Most ants are female and nearly every ant encountered outside of the nest is a female.
- Worker ants are females. they’re responsible for building and maintaining the nest.
- Protecting the colony from other ants and feeding the colony.
- Depending upon the ant species, workers can live as long as a few weeks or upto a full year.
- The queen lays eggs that hatch into winged males and females known as alates or reproductives.
- Once the mature, these ants leave the colony in swarms.
- Their job is to establish new colonies. As with drones and queens.
- The males die soon after mating. while a certain number of females survive to become new Queens.
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