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COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

(GOVERNMENT-AIDED AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTE AFFILIATED TO ANNA UNIVERSITY)

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Ants and Their Colonies

Name: Lalhmingmawia H
Registration no. : 71762203088
Class : B.E. EEE II
Batch : 2022-2026
Subject : Employability Skills
Mail ID : [email protected]
Fire Ants
 They are copper brown in color with a darker abdomen; quite small at 2 – 6 mm; found in a variety
of sizes within the one nest

 While most colonies range in the tens of thousands, if left untreated, colonies have been known to
amass more than 200,000 ants in a single colony!

 Fire ants utilize underground tunnels as well. These allow them to transport food, build nurseries for
the young, and generally move about undetected and undisturbed

 These tunnels can extend as long as 25 feet

 Fire ants take their name from two different sources; the reddish coloring that makes them stand out
from other ants or the infamous sting that leaves painful red bumps

 Fire ants can actually sting and bite, but only the sting leaves you in severe pain

 When their territory is flooded, fire ants can cling together and form a giant floating mass.

 They can also form a chain gang-like structure over short distances to transport larvae out of a
flooded nest to safety

Bullet Ants
 They have a reddish-black body with large pincers and relatively small stingers but are around 1.5
inches

 Famous for having the most painful sting in the world comparable to the pain of being shot

 Found in the tropical rainforests in Central and South America

 Their nests are often at the base of trees with buttress roots of big trees

 The ants build their colonies on the bottom of trees, and each colony contains around 500-1300 ants.
 The ants are hunters and look for their own food.

 Only a few of these can take down a man

Carpenter Ants
 Carpenter ant workers have black, dark brown, red and black, yellow or red coloration with sizes
ranging from 3.4 to 13 mm

 Carpenter ants are destructive and will burrow through wood to create tunnels and nests but they
don’t eat the wood unlike termites

 These ants prefer damp, hollow wood but won’t hesitate to burrow through dry wood either

 Constructs two kinds of nests: parent colonies which, when mature, contain an egg-laying queen

 Brood and 2000 or more worker ants, and satellite colonies which may have large numbers of worker
ants but no queen, eggs or young larvae

 Nests are especially common in moist, hollow spaces such as the wall void behind a dishwasher, or
in a hollow porch column

Pavement Ants
 Worker pavement ants are uniformly small, about 3mm long. They are dark brown to black in color

 They are called Pavement ants because they make nests in or under cracks in pavement.

 There can be as many as 10,000 ants in a single colony

 These ants prey on subterranean termites, insects in the soil, plant juices, and a wide

 Assortment of sweet and protein containing foods

 Occasionally they are a nuisance if they build nest openings between bricks of patios or other
sensitive areas
 Pavement ants forage predominately at night but during early spring and summer they will also
forage during the day

Electric Ants
 These ants get their name from its painful sting compared to its small size

 Ants less than 2 milli meters long. Ants that are red, orange or light brown

 Unlike other ants, the different workers are all of the same size

 The ants don't have a distinctive nest or mound and tend to nest under leaf debris and stones, potted
plants, in rotten limbs or in trees

 They have been known to nest in houses, infested beds, furniture and food

 Electric ants produce painful, long-lasting stings. In rare cases, it might cause a severe allergic
reaction (anaphylaxis)

Weaver Ants
 Workers are 5–7 millimeters (0.20–0.28 in) long; they look after larvae and farm scale bugs for
honeydew. Major workers are 8–10 millimeters (0.3–0.4 in) long, with long strong legs and large
mandibles

 They have long legs, slender body and large eyes, can vary from dark brown to emerald green

 Have three types of workers in a colony; major, minor and minim workers

 They build kingdoms on plants from shrubs to trees, and expand to every plants reachable

 Many nests to occupy large areas and expand to more nests

 They bend and pull big leaves by working together until other ants come to glue the leaves

 Their larvae secrete sticky silk to glue the leaves together for their nest that become the central
chamber which they cover it up to 100 more leaves together they for little rooms
 The queen lays hundreds of eggs a day and make way for the new generation

 Gets food from the tree’s sweet sap; more importantly they cultivate aphids or caterpillars that
produce honeydew for them any other herbivores and insects are scared off

 They are fierce warriors and can squirt formic acid in battle to burn the enemies

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