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Do amazon ants bite

Updated: 11/13/2022
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For starters, there's no such a thing as an 'Amazon Ant'. I will now tell you a lot of fun facts about ants that live in the Amazon.

The Amazon rain forest contains at least 1,000 species of ant, most of which have never been formally described. Army ants are nomadic ants which travel in huge swarms, eating anything unlucky enough to be in their path. They DEFINITELY bite! Leafcutter ants don't actually eat the leaves they cut, they use the leaves to fertilize fungus farms in their nests, then eat the fungus. Some ants actually capture slaves from other colonies. The combined mass of all the ants on earth is roughly equal to the combined mass of all humans on earth.

Some ants in the Amazon fall victim to a fungus that turns them into Zombies. The fungus controls the mind of an ant, making it climb a tree, latch onto a leaf, and stay there. Eventually, the ant dies and the fungus grows out of the ant's head to release spores and infect more unsuspecting ants. These fungi can wipe out entire colonies of ants.

Most species of ants bite to some extent.

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