What is the purpose of a harvester ant?

Answer 1

It is much like the life cycle of most ants. The males (winged) and the winged females are released from the nest of the ant colony and fly away. Those that find each other mate and then the male dies and the female goes off and starts a nest in some convenient spot, usually sheltering under a bit od stone or rubbish. There she lays eggs and tends them, licking them to keep them clean. In her spare time she starts a burrow for better shelter. We say that she is the queen ant of the new colony. When her eggs hatch they produce larvae like tiny maggots, except that they have heads rather like caterpillars (real maggots just have a pair of hook-like jaws sticking out at the front). She feeds them from her own bodily materials, largely made out of her flight muscles, which she will never use again anyway. The larvae, meaning baby insects, grow to the size of fairly small workers (after all, she could not afford to feed them much) and then the change their skins and change their shape into something that looks a bit like a soft, white ant. This stage of the ant's life we call the pupa and we say that the larva has pupated. The pupa lies without moving for a few days, remodelling its insides. Then the pupa changes its skin and out comes a small worker ant. When the worker ant has hardened its outer skeleton, it sets to work hunting food from outside the nest and it feeds any larvae that have not yet pupated. Because it can get more food from outside than the young queen could spare, the new larvae can grow bigger and the queen can stop tending the eggs and larvae. Instead she just feeds and lays many more eggs so that the colony can have lots of worker ants to hunt food and dig a big nest. When the colony is strong enough, with lots of food and plenty of workers, she will begin to lay some eggs that will hatch into male larvae (all the workers and soldiers are females). The male larvae, and some of the female larvae, pupate and change into winged ants that go out and start new colonies just as their parents did.

Answer 2

They are considered meat. 9200001001000010001000010000100001000001000001000

Answer 3

Red