They are sterile (non reproductive) females. The small group of males in a colony, called drones, are only to mate with the queen orqueens; after two weeks they die.
from the worker ants
Male ants only have one job and that is to mate with the queen ant. After they mate, the male ant dies. All of the worker ants are female.
it brings food to the other ants
Technically, in some way some ants do puke. Honey ants, which store honey for the rest of the colony, regurgitate honey to feed the other worker ants. Regular worker ants, carpenter ants, and multiple other kinds of ants do not puke.
Pepples
No , it is against Federal laws to ship a queen ant across state lines and so your colony will not have an egg-producing queen because the ants Uncle Milton has sent are sterile female worker ants .
ants
they sort by using the queens hormons to make the ants do certain actions
Drone ants are males whose main role is to mate with the queen to ensure the colony's genetic diversity. They do not have stingers or the ability to do work like worker ants. Once they have fulfilled their mating purpose, drone ants die shortly after.
There is a "queen ant", which is a breeding female. There is no "king" ant, male ants are called "drones". The non-breeding (sterile or sub-fertile) female ants are called "workers". Depending on the species, there can be anywhere from one to ten queen ants in a colony. They are raised from larvae specifically for the purpose of breeding.
Yes, queen ants and some males have wings but worker ants don't