6 Types of Rare Ants

6 Types of Rare Ants

Ants are insects that come from a family eusosial Formisidae, and ants are included in the order Himenoptera along with bees and wasps. Ants are divided into more than 12,000 groups, with a large number of comparisons in the tropics. Ant colonies and known for its regular nests, which sometimes consist of thousands of ants per colony.

Ants are divided into worker ants, ant males, and the queen ant. One colony can master and use a wide area to support their activities. Superorganisme ant colonies are sometimes called because of their colonies to form a unity.

 
A. Honeypot ants Myrmecocystus

Ants in arid climates must store food to survive longer than scarcity. In the deserts of North America, honeypot ants use their bodies as Myrmecocystus living containers, their bodies swell up karen fluid, and brought to the nest couple.

 
2. Ants Harpegnathos saltator
 
Jumpers ant India, Harpegnathos saltator, is one of the first ant has genome sequencing.

 
3. Ants Podomyrma

Likely to approach an ant Podomyrma Lycaenid caterpillar in South Australia. These caterpillars secrete substances-substances that are attractive to ants, and ants in turn provide protection from parasites. Ants are very abundant, that many other species have come to rely on them in various ways.

 
4. Malagasy ants

Among the oddities family Malagasy mystery ants are ants (Mystrium species), which are predators of rain forest dwelling leaf litter.


5. Cecropia ants

(Azteca alfaroi) guard their trees seriously against intruders. Working together, they surround and immobilize their opponents by pinning the opponent until limp.

 
6. Ants Thaumatomyrmex

One of the world's rarest insects is Thaumatomyrmex, ant mandibles strange tropical America has long mystified ant scientists. In 1990, a Brazilian team finally solve the puzzle Thaumatomyrmex.