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ants
20 April 2008
6:45:00 PM
the ants crawled up the bottle for water and the food that were being laid to keep them alive...i found out...that...there were more then one colony of ants! THERE WERE TWO!!!
the ants from the wall vs the ants from the door so i thought i do a little research abt these little creatures. basic information ants are insects that belong to a group labelled hymenoptera (along with bees, wasps and sawflies). ants belong to the family formicidae. scientists believe ants evolved from wasps in the cretaceous period (about 110 million years ago). the earliest fossil ants have been found in north american amber, which has been dated at 94 million years old. morphology ![]() vespidae -- paper wasps, hornets, potter wasps, yellow jackets, and relatives sierolomorphidae -- sierolomorphid wasps tiphiidae -- tiphiid wasps sapygidae -- sapygid wasps mutillidae -- velvet ants pompilidae -- spider wasps rhopalosomatidae -- rhopalosomatid wasps formicidae -- ants scoliidae -- scoliid wasps ant castes ![]() queen, king, major worker ant, minor worker ant anatomy click to enlarge ![]() an ant is composed of four distinct body parts (tagma). head - has the mandibles and associated mouthparts, the eyes (when present) and the antennae. the antennae are used for tasting items the ant encounters, smelling their environment, and communicating with other ants. altitrunk (mesosoma) - usually consisting of three distinct segments and has the three pairs of legs. large glands at the rear of the altitrunk produce antibacterial and antifungal substances. waist - consists of one (petiole) or two (petiole + postpetiole) segments, between the altitrunk and gaster. the waist allows the gaster to flex so that prey can be stung or sprayed. gaster - is composed of five segments, this bears the terminal sting or a pore through which acid can be sprayed. addition look up on ur own -feeding -life cycle -communication -locomotion Tschus! 0 comments |
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