Like all living things, ants can get sick. This can occur through a number of means, such as bacteria, viruses or parasites. A tough life We often paint ants as super beings, able to survive even the toughest conditions. Yet,…
There are a range of smells that ants avoid, such as citrus, lavender and mint. These plants have developed these chemicals in order to put off insects that might otherwise feed on them. How do ants smell? If you look…
Ants do poop, though their excrement is usually referred to as frass, and is generally dry and powdery. However, they do not urinate, instead, removing the moisture from their urea to create uric acid, which is excreted as a solid…
Ants use lots of different methods to survive the winter, from huddling together in their nests to entering a kind of winter slumber. Their mixture of learned adaptions and evolutionary advantages means that, unlike some insects, they do not die…
Only the queen ant is able to reproduce in a colony. She mates with a drone when she emerges from the nest for her nuptial flight, before building a nest and producing the workers she then rules over. An Ants…
Ants do not have lungs, instead, they have spiracles, which are holes on the outside of their exoskeleton, which allow oxygen into their bodies. The spiracles connect into a series of branching tubes called tracheae. What are lungs? Lungs are…
