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Most species of ants defend their nests against other ants, whether of the same species or not. As a rule they keep away from strange nests and can tell their own nest by the way it smells different from strange nests. If one colony does in fact invade a strange nest, there will usually be a fight with many ants being killed; when that happens one of the colonies might be wiped out, with the eggs and larvae being eaten by the victors or taken home as "slaves". In either case, no super colony results.
Sometimes because of inbreeding the different ant colonies smell so much alike that the smells do not set the ants fighting. When that happens ants move perfectly happily between colonies and a nest might include many queens. An example is when Argentine ants (the species Linepithema humile) invade a new country or an island because humans accidentally transported them. The result sometimes is that only one Argentine ant colony is imported and their young are so inbred that they form super colonies and kill all the local ants because the local ants are not inbred and so do not form super colonies and the Argentine ants outnumber them and kill them.
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Why do ants eat plants?
Ants steal other ants so that they will work for the conquering colony. young ants are like children and rather helpless and happy provided they are fed. the young ants get use to the smell of the new colony and believe this to be the norm. In short the young ants dont know that they were not born into the colony they are now with so act as if they were born there and work like other native ants in that colony.
Where are the ants noses?
Because ants dont have lungs as we have they dont need one.
Why do you have ants?
i dont
What is inside a ants sting?
they dont sting, they bite.
How many ants live in one colony?
Ants, as any other insects may get all their water needs trough food supply. If there is any more need than that they find other source of water. (for example ants do not react to clean, dry sugar, thay can only absorb it in water solution). Depends also on the actual ant species.
Do ants encourage?
no they dont
How do you squish ants barefoot?
It matter what kind of ants like red ants OUCH! But black ants dont bite
Are fire ants color blind?
i dont no
What eat ants in the forest?
Well i think whatever eats ants i guessed i dont know
Do roaches eat ants?
I would say yes. Im in South Africa, and we have small black ants. Sorry I dont have the group name. But I have a colony in my bathroom. So sometimes honey bees die in the window, and I feed them to the ants. And they do eats them, and take it into the nest.
How can you make a difference in the life of ants?
dont step on them.
How do the ANTs sneak out of Chyna's house?
they dont do nothing
