ANTswers – Facts About Ants

Leaf-Cutter Ants

Typically found in the warmer areas of the Americas, Leaf-Cutter ants feed on a special fungus that only grows underneath the nests that they build. In order to cultivate their fungus, and keep it free from molds, the Leaf-Cutter ants feed it with contant freshly-cut plants (hence, the name). However those plant leaves have a [...]

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Bullet Ants

Ants are norious survivors, and it’s not just from their work eithic alone. Many types are also known for their painful stings and their powerful bites. You’ve probably seen army ants in action. They can devour small prey in minutes and colonies can wipe out full areas of that prey when millions of them are [...]

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Carpenter Ants

If you’re looking for information on those pesky ants that are showing up everywhere in and around your house, there’s a good chance that those are carpenter ants. Typically, you’ll find carpenter ants near the outside, or on the inside of a wooden structure, they like moist wood. It is easy to identify them, carpenter ants [...]

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Types Of Ants: An Introduction

There are several types of ants in the world living in various areas from our backyard all the way to the rainforests. You can even find ants in some of the hottest deserts on Earth. All ants live in colonies and any one colony that you might happen to stumble upon could have over a million [...]

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Fire Ants

They even sound nasty with that name, don’t they? Fire ants are a threatening pest and have been known to do serious, idespread damage to farmer’s crops and their cattle, as well as humans. There were are two main species of fire ants, one black and one red. The black ones were somehow imported [...]

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Army Ants

Army ants have long, pointed, lower jaws (mandibles) and 6 six legs attached to an elongated body that usually ranges anywhere from a dull brown to a deep shade of gold. How do army ants communicate? Contrast to all other types of ants and insects in general, army ants only each have a single eye instead [...]

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