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category: article
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date: 2012-02-27T22:47:00
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description: The Big Red Ants
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image: /images/ants.webp
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tags:
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- ants
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- sav
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title: The Big Red Ants
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In a bird's eye view if we see around us, ants are the common and
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tiniest living entitiy seen by naked eye. One of them are the big red
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ants, in my view they are unique from others in two ways, first they
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live on trees and second their anteenas are too long and bent in middle,
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seems like their fore legs. Their mandible (mouth) seems like eagle's
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beak.
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As I observed them making and reparing their nests, I concluded that
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they are very laborious and intellectual. They create their nests by
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binding two or more leaves (maybe up to 500) together. They stich the
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leaves using a stinky white substance either excreted by themselves or
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from trees. This substance is like web of spider. At first builder ants
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creates an array at the blade of two leaves. Then they make ant-cranes
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or ant-chain like chain of monomer to form a polymer. They catch the
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leaves and pull each other to stich. After some time, the parliament of
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leaves transforms into a leaf-sac called their nest. They also weave
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translucent cloth like structure to cover remainings of leaf. A nest
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hangs by a branch of the trees.
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A nest is skillfully divided into living rooms, barracks, storehouse,
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egg room and queen's room. The eggroom, lies at the center of nest to
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protect from outer attack until last time. Besides that, lies queen's
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room. Living rooms are sequenncly joined with eggroom. There are
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different rooms for workers, food searchers etc. The partition of the
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room resembles atom's electron shell, one upon another. At last barracks
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are the outermost rooms, just like outermost orbit of electron. The
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defence system is strongest at the nest's opening. A nest may size as
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2-3 footballs and have 50 to 10000 ants. There may be more openings.
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Now about their attacking and protecting skills. A solider is unique
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from other ants. It is equipped with many attacking and defending
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skills. Normally they do not attack. They are social insects. If someone
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attacks, all other ants go inside, and soldiers come out. They spread
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allover the nest. They are very sensetive and have sharp vision. If any
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one of them see their enemy the stand on their hind legs, swinging,
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their forelegs and anteens in their air as scolding someone. Their spit
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contains formic acid, present at the end of the abdomen below the
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rectum. If their nest is broken and eggs fall on ground then the ants
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make a dome, like the dome of Taj mahal to save the eggs till last their
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breadth. This shows their caring skills.
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The most amazing is their discipline. They can easily beat a human in
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race of discipline. Humans must learn from it. When two ants meet, they
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touch their anteena to communicate. When they walk in a queue, they seem
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like twinkling dots and dashes. I want to conclude that **All tiny
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things are not really tiny. It may be as a space having infinite
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mysteries one has to explore it.**
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Photo Attribution : Photo by Michael Willinger from Pexels:
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