Amazing Facts About Ants Which Will Blow Your Mind (I)

Let’s read on to know about some of the most interesting facts about ants.

For many of us, ants are just tiny insects and nothing more than that but once you get to know about how well-disciplined they are, you will be amazed. Ants may be small in size but do you know that the total weight of all ants on earth is the same as the weight of the total number of people on earth?

Ants Make Their Colonies with Perfect Planning which are bigger than Ant Farms 

Don’t go by its size, ants are very intelligent and they make their colonies the way humans make colonies.

These colonies are made in various shapes and sizes. There are small colonies and big colonies. Foods are stored in large colonies. Some ant colonies of ants are very big area-wise, mostly in open places. The queen ant is touted as the founder of the colony. Scientists have found large ant colonies which are empty because the ants move from there and when they dug and made an observation, they got amazed by looking at the colonies which seem like they are made by humans with proper planning and execution.

2. Most of the Ants we See are Female Ants

You will be amazed to know that most of the ants we see are females and the queen ant who is considered the leader and she lays eggs from which more ants come.

Calling ants smart will be an understatement as they are much more than just being smart. They have a caste system and each cast is given particular work; female ants were termed worker ants by the scientists. Their duties include taking care of the queen and collecting and storing food and that’s why most of the ants we see are female ants. If you are wondering how the queen is selected, unlike humans they don’t cast votes and it all depends on fertility as worker ants cannot lay eggs. Any female ant larva can become the queen provided they receive diets richer in protein. The other larvae get less protein, because of which they become workers.

3. Ants Are Very Strong

Ants are very strong and if any human gets the strength of an Ant according to size, he will be nothing less than a superhuman.

Ants are very strong according to their size and they can lift a weight that is 10-50 times the ant’s size. It’s like a human being carrying 10-50 people of his weight which we are not capable of. They may look tiny to us but among them, they have superhuman strength. A particular ant known as the Asian Weaver ant can lift 100 times its mass.