At first glance, an anthill may seem indiscriminate jams of coniferous needles, branches, land and grass. In fact, in this unsightly heap of his life lives a real city. Everyone his resident knows his place, here everything is subordinate to the strictest routine. These tiny insects that do not have highly developed intelligence capture any territory suitable for their existence.
Ants are insects that live in almost all corners of our planet, with the exception of Greenland and Antarctica, as well as some oceanic islands. They settled not only steppes, forests, but also the desert. There are 13.5 thousand 300 of them are distributed in our country.
The ants belong to the detachment of the reference, the type of arthropods, insect class, the Muravyev family. These are public insects that have a clear division into three castes: males, females, as well as workers. These little hardworking creatures cannot live alone, therefore always create colonies.
In the structure of the body of these insects, three parts are isolated, covered with a chitinic shell: the head, as well as the chest and abdomen connected by a thin waist. Eyes that consist of a variety of lenses are distinguished by movement, but the clear image does not give. Ants move with six thin paws with curls at the ends that allow insect to climb up.
The mustache, segmentally arranged, are located on the head. These are the conname authorities that not only capture odors, but also feel the vibration of the soil and the movement of air flows. The features of the insect building and the size of the ants depend on their species, as well as the status occupied in the colony. On average, it varies from 1 mm to 3 cm.
The largest individuals in some species are females, their other size is not more than the size of the working individuals. Females have wings who fall out after the marriage season. Color ants may be different - from black, red, yellow and brown to unusual green or bluish. The ants are difficult to classify, since the species and numerous hybrids are distributed in nature. Only experts will be able to distinguish them in appearance.
It depends on a number of factors. Type of insect and caste, habitat, season - these are the main reasons affecting how many ants live in natural conditions. Workers ants on average live from year to three. For smaller species, life expectancy is less than their larger relatives. Surprisingly, ants in the cold regions live longer than their tropical relatives.
Males live a few weeks. During this period, they bring populations the only benefit: take part in mating. Then they destroy the colony or they become a victim of predators. The most long-lived individual in the formic kingdom is the uterus. Some species have the duration of its life reaches 20 years.
The construction of an ant house begins with the emergence of a hawk generation. Under favorable conditions, the queen (uterus) puts the ant eggs. In the future, workers are care for them. Female females and males leave their anthill to build a new colony and multiply.
It is interesting to observe how ants build an anthill. Initially, they find and carefully examine the place for the new home. It is important for them that there are no dead ants on the selected area, it is desirable that there was a "drunk" mining (big caterpillar, frog, beetle, a bunch of sugar, seeds and mushrooms). The place must be in the shade, have normal humidity and ventilation.
Build a common house of ants from various blades, leaves, land, bark. Construction material Thoroughly crushed and gluits ant glue. Work is carried out very carefully and thoroughly, for centuries. Construction continues around the clock, as the Pol Colonia is growing rapidly. Almost all of your life, these professionals build their home, increasing it in depth, and height.
The anthill appears outwardly resembles the mountain of theraging, twigs, soil pieces, but in reality it is a competently organized housing, inside which an interesting life is boiling inside. From above, the device of the anthill is a mound of a cone-shaped form with small openings inputs. This form is not accidental - it allows an anthill to warm well to the sun, not to get into the rain, to get the necessary access of oxygen.
Over the years, the anthill grows up to several meters in height. Rain drops that fall on the outer layer do not penetrate inside. Open entrances that are protected by the numerous army of soldiers are ventilation mines through which air constantly flows into the forming house. In scientists, a huge anthill was discovered 3 meters high and in diameter about 5 meters. Experts believe that this construction was built about 20 years.
From the inside the anthill is striking the well-developed construction of builders. Inside, this building is a set of moves - an anthill, has many outlets, various cameras. The structure is deepened under the ground, divided into two parts and accommodates a whole colony of hardworking inhabitants.
Most Insect time spend in upper tier, Live here in the warm season. Cameras are great, all conditions for the cultivation of offspring are created here. The lower part, leaving under the Earth for a half or two meters, has similar buildings. It is intended for wintering insects, which will lose cold time underground, fold food reserves.
Each of this part is divided into cameras that perform certain functions:
Cameras are connected by numerous strokes that carefully guard the ant soldiers. With the onset of cold weather or the approach of the danger of the hole of the forming house is closed.
Does ants have enemies and who destroys the anthills in the forest? These insects have the enemies. If even pets can be applied in the city of damage - dogs or cats, then a big danger is in the forest for them. The kolaty owner of the taiga of a clawed paw jumps anthills to enjoy larvae and ants. Jerzy, like mice, will not give up a light snack if an anthill will meet on their way.
On the device of the forming housing, many of us are known since school bench, and most know that they cannot be destroyed. Unfortunately, in fact, everything is different.
Mirmexcologists are engaged in serious studies of these hardworking insects.
To find out how the lives of ants in an anthill take place, it is necessary to start from the birth of a new offspring. Once a year, males and female ants appear from eggs, ready to continue the kind. Females have wings and for mating, they will fly out in different directions.
The males after fertilization die, and females are sent in search of a place to create a new colony. Having found him, the female unzipped his wings to obtain the necessary nutrients and proceeds to the active laying of eggs.
At first, she survives thanks to the impressive fat breakfast, but when the first offspring representatives appear, they provide the uterus with everything necessary. The Murai Queen falls only once, but at the same time she has enough spermatozoa reserves for life to reproduce offspring.
Ants live in large colonies that are saved for several years. All members of such a colony are relatives. From a social point of view, an anthill for ants can be considered a city whose population is divided into castes and is well organized. Experts believe that there are parallel civilization under our feet.
If people interact through speech, facial expressions and gestures, then ants communicate, exchanging food and with smells: Each ant has a unique smell, and each colony is special shades of fragrances. Thanks to them, insects can feel that the stranger is penetrated into their house. In addition, ants interact with pheromones. So they report relatives about the danger or place where food is located.
Most of the colony make up workers ants. Half of them provides comfort and comfortable accommodation within the structure, the other - cares about food reserves, is engaged in external construction of the house. He heads the female hierarchy, which is more often called the uterus or queen. It is she who feared in young age, gives offspring all his life and finds a place for an anthill.
In two weeks, ants appear, as a rule, a working clan. They are accepted for construction. A small part of the colony is the young males. Their fate is unlosable - after fertilizing females, they die for two weeks.
Such has a lot. Among them:
Depending on the number of insects living in an anthill, labor is divided. In a small family, the principle of interchangeability is practiced. Specialization appears in a large colony, and certain responsibilities are fixed behind the ants.
Types of lively alive ants of science are unknown. All of them are kept by large families who remain over the years. The inhabitants of each nest are in relationship with each other, so from a biological point of view it is the family. But from the standpoint of our human representations, the anthill rather resembles the city, the population of which is divided into castes and is toughly organized.
If you have seen an ant with wings, then you are a representative of one of two special and small ants.
The minority in the formal society is the castles of Muravyov-males. Their life is short, and the fate is unworthy - after mating with the female "Ant Macho" die.
The second caste - egg-standing females ("Queens"). They are also a little. Depending on the type in each anthill, it lives from one to several hundred "Tsarits". Live "government" for a long time - with a successful coincidence, each can reign up to 20 years.
Females and males wonderful. During the only marriage life, the queen can meet with several partners. As a result of this peculiar orgy, she for the rest of his life becomes a "car" for reproduction of ant and in the future, tens of thousands of fertilized eggs will postpone. After mating, the female drops the wings and either take it into an already existing anthill, or it bases a new family.
The overwhelming majority of the population of any anthill is the third caste - workers. Although the Muravyov is called in male genus, they are all physiologically underdeveloped barren females. The wings are not laid, and the eggs are turned into sting - personal combat weapons intended for protection and attack.
Workers provide family existence. They build and guard the nest, provide an anthill food, clean and feed the "tsarits" and "children", guard the aft plot, ensure the departure of the winged individuals, etc. The number of workers in the family is different - from several tens to hundreds of thousands and even 10- 15 million. The life expectancy of six-legged proletarians is from 4 to 7 years.
Usually during the time working ant replaces several professions. Young cotton inside the nest: Careful for the female ("Sweet"), children, that is, eggs and larvae ("Nanniki"), and older workers ("grits"), clean and repair underground chambers and moves ("repairmen") stored Water ("ant barrels").
Having worked for 1-3 years and having received experience and qualifications, the ants are transferred to the reserve, where they can relax a little and allow them to care for themselves new generations of young workers. Approximately about a third of the "proletariat" is in reserve, but they must be constantly ready to eliminate the consequences of accidents and natural disasters.
The reserves are reserved and the ranks of "employees", working outside the nest, - builders, foragers (scouts, hunters or food collectors), water suits, sanitation, guards, experienced observer veterans.
In each anthill, a certain ratio of individuals is clearly supported. different groups. It happens at once in several ways. Main importance are the management decisions of the "Queen". To subordinates, they are brought through a variety of substances allocated by various glands of its body.
If there are a lot of egg-standing females in the nest, then new winged individuals do not appear long. But at certain points, the ruling "queens" feel the approach of old age and stimulate the appearance of young "princess" and their males partners. To achieve this, females allocate a special fluid, which "nannies" feed a limited number of elected larvae. Each of them subsequently grows into a female female or male - depending on the dose of nectar.
After that, the following often happens: the same "nannies", who cared for heirs from the moment of appearance on the light, they drive them out of their native home without centimes.
It happens that the larvae of future female males and females get too much. Then unnecessary just eat - the protein should not disappear in vain. On the other hand, if the nest is observed overproduction of workers larvae, then it reduces the fecundity of the "Tsarits" at a certain time.
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Many species of ants are considered to be useful, but two species are the dery and garden ants (black and red) - harm gardens and gardens. In particular, these insects are used as an additional (and sometimes the main) source of the sweet selection of sucking pests. For this reason, the ants protect the tool, leafoblishes, shields and spoors from attacking enemies, contribute to their settlement and reproduction. And our plants remain with bleeding leaves contaminated with a sticky step, which serves as a nutrient medium for sage fungi.
In addition, residents of anthills damage the roots, seeds in the soil eat and appetite seeds and seedlings.
Scare them. Ants do not like some smells. Spread the leaves of mint, pyzhma, wormwood bitter, Anisa in places of cluster insects.
Or fall asleep anthill gasha lime, dry mustard or ground pepper. Sweep the soil around the nest and the path of movement of ants with vegetable oil - add a fat head of garlic on a glass of oil.
Login is prohibited!On the strains of trees, whose foliage is settled by the colonies of the tool, you can wear a funnel from any material with a smooth unmatched surface and the inner side of the funnel to lubricate a thin layer of vaseline or solidol. This trap will have to be replaced periodically to fresh.
Fill boiling water. Try late in the evening (since at this time the majority of the inhabitants of the anthill are "at home") to pour the nest of growing steep boiling water. Repeat this procedure several times as long as you do not see the death of all underground residents. Especially "queen".
In the next issue of our newspaper, we will tell you how ants-workers lead their economic activities, as well as chemical methods Combating these insects.
At first glance, the anthill seems indiscriminate jams of branches, coniferous needles, herbs and land. However, in fact, inside this unsightly heap lives its own real city. Here everyone knows his place, everything is subordinate to a rigorous schedule. These tiny insects that do not have highly developed intelligence, but creating anthill ants, nevertheless quickly capture any suitable territories and form numerous colonies. Let's see how the anthill is arranged?
Structure of the article
The scheme of the structure of the anthill in the context with the designation of functional chambers. The structure of the formic colony. Most often there are an anthills of a dome-shaped form, but sometimes Murashi prefer to settle in rotten tree trunks, large old stumps. In the regions with an extremely hot climate (for example, deserts) insects build their dwellings exclusively underground.
From the inside the anthill looks different, but the structure of the allocation and organization of specialized chambers is characterized by any nesting of Murash.
Internal chambers can be divided into the following categories:
Each insect insect has a clear idea of \u200b\u200bthe location of the chambers. An increase in the anthill leads to the expansion of the available chambers and the construction of new premises.
The depth of the anthill underground can reach 2 meters and has an organized complicated structure. And the above-ground part can be height from 30 cm to 2 m. It all looks like a huge city.
The depth and structure of a conventional anthill shake. The insides of this amazing structures consist of large fragments of branches. Between them there are many galleries leading to individual cameras, which is a rather complex device.
The height of the structure varies from 30 cm to 2 m, the underground part most often exceeds ground square. The external coating consists of small twigs, needles, grains and reliably protect ants from dampness, wind and cold. The structure of the underground anthill garden ant is similar to the forest, but only a small sandy holmik is on the surface.
Here look a few photos What a large forest anthill looks like:
The underground part is usually comparable, and more often exceeds the above-ground. In places where there are large resource reserves (water, cereal, insects of other species), dwellings can reach giant sizes. In some cases, the population of the colony may exceed, imagine 1.5 million individuals.
Interestingly, an anthill arranged: up to a third of the workers ants are continuously moved by a cheva and branches! Why do they do it?
The anthill arranged in such a way that the inside is constantly supported by a plus temperature (26-29 degrees Celsius), which is very important for the Murash. To this end, the needles and branches from the lower coating layer are transferred to the surface, ventilated and dried. This process is continuous, it participates about a third of the workers of ants. Thanks to their efforts are created favorable conditions For the development of larvae and preserve food reserves.
Often the public hierarchy inside the formic colony is compared with the device of bee hive. These two species are largely similar, but still the behavior of ants is much more complicated. As in human society, these insects have strict division into classes. The anthill is arranged so that every half-raging individual has its own destiny.
Depending on the set of certain qualities, each insect receives an appointment to this or that social post. At the same time, personal qualities of individuals are taken into account - excessive aggressiveness, acute scent, reaction rate. In the hierarchy of any anthill there are the following categories of individuals:
Depending on the habitat, special "professions" appear. For example, ant-leafers living in the forests collect leaves of certain trees and plants. After they are transferred to the anthill, twisted in a special way and are used to grow mushrooms, which are one of the main products in their diet.
An interesting fact: in some species, the profession is predicted genetically, which is reflected in the structure of the body of the ant. And in other species, the profession is acquired by individuals gradually and they are able to replace each other's functions if necessary.
Each formic colony, regardless of the species, has one or more queen queens. This is a large hawkish individual, characteristic differences are large transparent wings. They are necessary for the search for males, immediately after successful fertilization, the need for them disappears and they disappear.
The fertilized queen laying eggs in the lowest and extensive chamber of the anthill, which is deep underground. And the size of the anthill underground can reach up to two meters! It is necessary to protect the offspring from predators, temperature drops and other dangerous factors.
Queen's lifestyle for each species is different. So, wild forest ants have several hundred young non-secretive females as part of a colony. After mating females, laying up the masonry throughout the forest, new colonies are formed next to them.
The ants of the colonies in the neighborhood with a person always have a few dozen male drone. The overwhelming part of the population consists of underdeveloped females. In a small colony there is only one queen-uterus, which continues the genus.
If conditions in the house or apartment are favorable (heat, dampness, antisanitary), then the number of ants increases rapidly. In this case, there are several new modules capable of reproduction, which strengthens the possibility of developing a colony. These females do not form new colonies, but remain in the existing one. Of course, with an increase in the number of Korolev, the spread of ants accelerates.
Among these small insects there are a kind of struggle for power. For example, in the colonies of red ants, there were cases of capturing the settlements of another species. The queen's uterus finds a relaxed colony of black or forest relatives due to the attack and occupies the place of the deceased uterus. After it puts the eggs, and when the red ants are hatched from them, they actually enslave the colony of another species.
There is a reference situation. During the attack of one anthill to another soldiers steal the eggs of opponents and take them to themselves. After the hatched insects become servants and work all their lives for the benefit of someone else's colony. In this principle, the lives of many types of tropical ants were built: for example, Amazon's ants are exclusively attacked by the neighbors and the capture of larvae, all heavy work inside their dwellings and ensuring vital activity occurs only at the expense of slaves.
In nature, it is possible to observe the opposite situation when the workers of the neighboring anthills establish contact and exchange food. This is a peculiar message to the neighbors about the world and offer to unite into one colony.
This is how interesting the anthill is arranged - this is an amazing structure with a complex organization that resembles a big city. How much time and labor is this tiny insect to rebuild ant colony, the above-ground part of which is at risk from the side of predators or natural phenomena.
Of course, forest ants bring invaluable benefit - the destruction of fell, maintaining the population of birds and small animals. Running the housing of forest sanitary vehicles are categorically impossible, but tolerate the neighborhood in own home or apartment is unacceptable. That is why, at the first signs of the emergence of these insects in the house or near it, it is necessary to take measures - getting rid of the rubble, application folk methods Fight. If the moment is missed and the colony has reached impressive sizes, the optimal solution will be the appeal to those skilled in the art.
About how difficult it is all arranged in an anthill, we remember biologists from school lessons. But how difficult is that serious scholars are told about the study of forming society about this. Having become acquainted with their research, we can safely say: literally we have a parallel civilization under your feet and develops.
Moraviki - guys on their mind. Let's start with birth. These insects belong to the refoliates, who, with the definition of sex, everything is not like people. The males develop from non-advocated eggs and contain a single set of chromosomes, while the females are endowed with a double set. With this scenario, the whole genome is obtained from the father, and from the mother - half. The sisters are at the same time with closer relatives among themselves than daughters in relation to the mother.
The Music Queen-Mother, having only one sexual contact, gets a stock of sperm, which spends all his life - from 12 to 20 years
Many types of refigulates in such a situation, only the Founded Mothers, mating with males admitted to the body, remain in the "girls" and work all their short life for the benefit of sisters. Their eggs as unnecessary turn into sting - personal combat weapons intended for protection and attack.
Entomologists call such behavior related altruism: most members of the society refuse to multiply in the name of supporting close relatives. But a workhorse, not knowing love, do not envy. In many species of ants, the family is pretty simple: this is a female, which for a few moments I met with a shortage of the living male, and several dozen workers - her daughters.
Competition for females in workers of ants can not be - in fact, they themselves are unfortunate females. But there are hierarchical relations among workers, competition for the right to be on a certain site, competition for more "prestigious" work, as well as for the right to rest, - explains the well-known scientist, head of the laboratory of the behavioral ecology of communities of Isyzh SB RAS, head of the department of comparative psychology NSU Professor Zhanna Reznikova. A few years ago, her book "Animal Intelligence" was published in Cambridge (United Kingdom), where she explains the anti-brotherhood device.
Self-affirmation: "Suitcase Pose"
To stroke a seat under the sun, the ants have to demonstrate a steep temper. They lead themselves as many mammals: put on each other, trying to rise above the enemy, demonstratively marching at high, tense legs, bite. The winner in the controversy is grabbed by the defeated peppers and makes hesitate to "pose a suitcase." The triumphant takes a crushed enemy from the battlefield, can give it to an anthill and throw it there, in order not to disturb the career and did not appear on one site with the winner. By the way, ants love to relax and relax. After hitting the nest, they literally fall into Nirvana - sleep, slightly swinging on the legs.
Professional guidance: Nor Piy Enemy
In a small forming family, all its members can switch from one job to another, observing the principle of interchangeability. But specialization appears in the densely population community: certain roles are enshrined for individual individuals.
Ants, as well as people, are born unequal, "the scientist explains. - But the task of the community is to use the potential for them as efficiently. Those who will guard the approach to the anthill, detect almost immediately - these comrades from the first days of life demonstrate congenital aggressiveness and rushed into battle without reasoning. The same story with the intellectual elite of an ant family - intelligence. Smart ants are able to memorize the sequence of turns on the way to the feeder and transfer the information of founds - food harvesters. Scouts have no congenital blocking of fear, and in case of danger, they can hide - nature has entered them with this quality for the sake of survival of the whole family.
Prestige question: your "cockroaches"
Most of the insects of youth often change specialization - move from shepherds to builders, from builders in nanniki, from nannies in sorters. Looking for yourself. Realizing that it does not pull, ant switches to another activity. Or he is driven - in this community with husks not ceremony. If everything goes smoothly, an ant may assume that I found a job. For those who have not decided on the profession, the role of handymen is prepared.
In the course of life, ants can repeatedly change the profession, but beginners, no matter how hard they try, they cope with the duties worse thanks for the fellow sense.
According to scientists, in the forming microme, there is such a concept as the prestige of the profession. And the views on this issue are most likely not coincided with human. For example, such a story. Among the ants there are militant types, which the larvae and cocoons from families of other species are kidnapped with the fight. When children hatching are hatching, they also become slaves and plowing another species.
Slave owners thus saved on the cost of feeding eggs and larvae younger ages. Slaves work well: quickly tolerate larvae from place in place in case of danger. It would seem that the family of slave owners live yes to rejoice. But they cut the larva's slaves and transfer them themselves. For them, this is a question of prestige! The Rabas is given to the role of builders - the profession respected in our society in ants, apparently, is not quoted.
Main ARUGE Professions:
1. Shepherds: erase the greenbugs - tool and take sweet drops from them - excrement ("Pad").
2. Transporters: Transfer the Pad into the nest.
3. Guards: Move the opponent from the anthill.
4. Hunters: extract food for the whole family.
5. Nanniki: Care for offspring.
6. Fuzhair: mining food outside the nest.
7. Builders.
In the choice of specialty, a genetic predisposition plays a small role.
Drunk orgies
Many other insects live in the anthills (livestock), which ants feed. As a fee of guests (most often Tlima) make a variety in the forming menu. One of the Surroundists, Lucusz Beetle, the hosts owners soldier with its ester-like discharge. And drunk brethren throws work, the hurt and cherishes the beetle devouring their pupae and larvae.
Count!
* Even just sunbathing in the sun, ants benefit their community. Warred, run inside the anthill and cool there. Thanks to this, in a cool day in an anthill for 5 - 10 degrees warmer than on the street.
Only numbers
* Ants settled on the planet earlier than a person for 100 million years.
* 12,000 species of ants dwell on the planet. The total number of these insects is 15 - 20% of the Biomass of the Earth.
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Photographer eko adiyanto.
On this score there is an excellent quote Lewis Thomasa: "The ants are so much like us, people, that even somehow awkward. They grow mushrooms, diverge the tool as militant cows, send soldiers to war to war, spray chemicals to scare and confuse the enemy, take captive slaves, exploit child labor and continuously exchange information. In short, do everything - except that the TV does not look "
This only seems to be an anthill - a lot of branches and chewing, inside this is the real "ant city".
Muravyev has almost like people. There is an initial set of qualities: aggressiveness, intelligence, enterprise, reaction speed, ability to interact with others. Depending on them, each ant receives his profession.
Tsaritsa Muravyov is a uterus - a hawk female. The uterus is able to establish a new anthill. For this, she pulls out a small underground corridor, where he subsequently postponed eggs.
Muravyev has a specialty - guard. It is obtained by those individuals that early exhibit aggressiveness. Intellect They, of course, also have, but not so developed: the soldiers are not so important to reason - they must have to be rushed without excess oscillations to protect shared resources.
Another profession - Paddy collectors. In some sense, ants have their own pets. The tolls feed on the juice of plants and distinguish the drops of a sweetish fluid, which is called the step. Mutually beneficial cooperation has been established between ants and phones. The ants collect the Pad - for them it is delicious and nutritious food, the main source of carbohydrates. And as a response service, protect their green cows from predators.
Among the collectors, the Paddy also has a division of labor. You can, of course, alone get a cherished drop of sweet liquid and independently drag it into an anthill. But this is irrational from the point of view of logistics.
Therefore, there are ants that work in the shepherds (or milkers): they tickle the aphid, providing high buds. And the resulting products transport others.
Ants carefully follow the condition of their home. Middle-sized anthill consists of 4-6 million chewing and twigs. Every day, hundreds of agricultural ants carry them on top of the anthill, and from the lower floors - upstairs.
This ensures a stable humidity of the nest, and therefore the dome of the anthill remains dry after the rain, does not rot and does not mold.
Even in the anthill there are hospitals where doctors work, for example, surgeons. And in the event that someone their inhabitants damaged her limb, that is, hand or leg, then surgeons amputly it (unzipped).
Also necessarily in the forming family there are "keepers" of nectar. They are needed at that unforeseen case, if the anthill happen hunger and workers ants will no longer be able to extract food.
Some species are widespread slavery. Ants attack someone else's anthill and steal the pupa. The then growing anthill, the captives work for his benefit.
Anthill in section
01. A coating of needles and twigs. Protects the dwelling from weather transformations, repaired and updated by workers.
02. "Solarium" - a camera heated by the rays of the sun. In the spring, the inhabitants run to warm up here.
03. One of the inputs. Guarded by soldiers. Serves as a ventilation channel.
04. "Cemetery". The workers of the Ants include dead fellow and trash.
05. Winterhouse. Insects gather here to survive the cold in the coastal state.
06. "Breadmbar". Here the ants store grains.
07. The royal chamber where the uterus lives, postponing to one and a half thousand eggs per day. Workers' ants take care of her.
08. Cameras with eggs, larvae and dolls.
09. "Corovnik", where ants contain tool.
10. "Meat Storeroom", where founds bring caterpillars and other prey.
Surprisingly the other: there is no "brainstorm" in the forming family, which would manage to achieve the desired result, whether it is a mining of an anthill, food mining, or protecting enemies. Moreover, the anatomy of a separate ant - intelligence, an employee or an ant uterus - does not allow this "brainstorm" in a separate ant.
The physical dimensions of its nervous system are too small, and the volume of programs and accumulated generations of data required to control the vital activity of the anthill is too large.
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