Who are war ants? Detailed answer

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Who are war ants?

One of the most amazing and remarkable creatures in the world is the ant. There are over 3500 different types of ants and they can be found all over the world.

All ants are very similar to each other, except for the size. They can be tiny - 1,5 mm long, or huge, reaching 50 mm in length.

All ants live in colonies. But there are huge differences in their way of life and habits.

For example, one of the most interesting species is war ants. They eat living beings! In Africa, these ants are called stray. They come out in thousands of armies and kill everything that comes in their way. You may ask: "How can a small insect - an ant - eat and kill everything in its path?" Do not forget that there are thousands and thousands of them. Even the largest animals run away when approached. And if the animal can't escape, then it's over!

The belligerent ants will kill and eat him, no matter who it is - a fly, a crocodile or a wounded lion! War ants of America only eat small items. They are called legionnaire ants. They can be found in the southern United States, as well as in Central and South America. Legionnaire ants march in formation, consisting of thousands of individual ants. In Mexico, people leave their homes as they walk. Ants eat all cockroaches, rats, mice and lizards that may be in houses. People are returning to houses in which there are no parasites or rodents left!

Did you know that there are ants that have their own slaves? These are Amazon ants. All their worker ants are also soldiers at the same time, so they do not get food and do not care for the young. They attack other ants to capture slaves to do their job. They raid anthills of a certain type of black ant, kill anyone who tries to resist them, and then take the cocoons and larvae with them. When black ants emerge from their cocoons, they work in the Amazonian ant colony like slaves!

Author: Likum A.

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The big bang created only two chemical elements, hydrogen and helium (and small amounts of deuterium and lithium). All other elements that fill the periodic table appeared only after the emergence of stars. In their depths, during thermonuclear fusion reactions, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and heavier elements were gradually formed.

The evolution of large stars ends with their explosions, after which the elements accumulated in such stars disperse into space, pollute the clouds of interstellar gas, and in due course serve as the raw material for the emergence of new stars.

In the world in which we live, there is a constant processing of primordial matter - the Universe is enriched with heavy elements, and the lightest ones are becoming less and less. Our Earth and all living beings on it, including people, consist of chemical elements formed in the stellar depths.

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