More ants

 

Ants are ridiculously strong. They have the ability to carry between 10 and 50 times their own body weight! The Asian weaver ant, for example, can lift 100 times its own mass. Ants can lift so much weight because of their strong muscles, multiple layers in their exoskeleton, and the shape of their body. Their small size also increases relative strength as they can hold more per pound than other larger insects.

 

Crazy 

Crazy (Yes name itself is crazy) ants have a method to their madness. Working in unison, they cleverly use navigators and carriers to transport food morsels that a single ant couldn’t 

 Ghost  

Named for their pale exoskeletons and minute size ghost ants thrive in the tropical climates of Florida and Hawaii. Nocturnal foragers of fungus, they’re also partial to insect honeydew. They have an uneven, rounded thorax and no stingers, so they don’t bite, but they’ve been known to nest inside homes. 

 

Ants are the most civilized and socialized creatures (Not after humans) they have different roles for each individual in an individual colony itself. Like queen (Mother of whole colony), worker ants, army ants, garbage cleaners and excavators. Ants leave us in the dust when it comes to co-ordination and maintaining a stable social environment consisting of much more varied working fields with no supervision but just a queen. First ants on earth date back to 120 MYA.


Armaniinae an extint and early relative of modern age ants. Ants also lived along with dinosaurs !


Parapovera clavata (Bullet ant) are the largest ants ever living up to today with an average size of length about more 3cm


Saharan silver ant is the fastest of all the 15,000 species discovered till now running about a staggering speed of 3.1 kmph which is equivalent about a human of 6 feet running at 720 kmph (200m/s).


Dracula ant can snap it's mandibles/jaws/pinchers at a speed of 201 mph i.e. to be relative, is 5000nth of or 5000x times faster than a blink of eye.

Ants use their jaw for many purposes like catching, chewing , ingestion and also for travelling faster and farther!!

Trap jaw can jump 40 cm away by snapping their jaws against a hard surface like a rock or a stone or some wall. which is like a human flying off a 100 feet when he hits a wall (I can imagine movies).

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