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Do ants always live in colonies?

Not only do ants live in colonies, but it is their way of organizing colonies that cannot but impress. The number of ants in a colony can vary from several hundred thousand to 12 pieces. They can build houses completely hidden underground, in a forest, on a hill, and even in an acorn.

The most common of the approximately 2000 ant species are red and black ants. All ants are social insects. Their communities are small nations, with their own kings (more precisely, queens), winged young males and females, and wingless worker ants. Ants live mainly in ant heaps up to 1 m high and about 30 cm wide.

Some species of ants keep "slaves". These ants go to war against smaller brothers, drive them out of their nests, pull them out and transfer their eggs, larvae, pupae and food supplies to their nests. Captured eggs, larvae and pupae are carefully looked after until they grow into mature ants, which are forced to serve their "masters".

Carnivorous varieties of ants live in Central Africa, South America and South Asia. They are sometimes called "African" ants. Such ants are terrified, for they move unwaveringly in long columns in search of living flesh and nothing can compare with the merciless ferocity of African ants on the march. The largest and most formidable beasts are helpless in front of millions of bites from African ants and find salvation only in water, drowning their tormentors.

Author: Likum A.

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