What are the temperature requirements for ants?

Ants are sensitive to temperature and are mostly active in hot weather. They like sweet foods, such as cakes, honey, maltose, red tang, eggs, fruit cores, meat skins, dead insects, etc. They can identify roads and move extremely hurriedly. If an individual worker ant dies, the body will be carried back to the ant nest. But they are intolerant of hunger, and half of them will die after 4 days and nights without food and water.

Experts suggest that household ants can be controlled by first soaking them in boiling water, and then using washing powder to block the ditches. You can also use sprays to kill cockroaches and mosquitoes. These drugs are effective in killing small red ants. However, little red ants are semi-social insects. General sprays can only kill the worker ants in the colony that move out of the nest. The breeding machines of the queen and king are still breeding crazily in the nest.

A queen ant can give birth to 600 ants per second, so it is ideal to take collective action in the entire building to eliminate ants. The best way is to choose a chemical poison bait that is good in palatability and has no repellent effect on ants. After the worker ants move the poison bait back, the king, queen and larvae in the nest will be poisoned to death and the entire nest will be destroyed. (Taiming: Taiming's termite bait has special effects on this species of ants)

Use the characteristics of ants to eliminate them: Ants are mostly found in the kitchen where there are oily food, you can use this characteristic to eliminate them. Before going to bed at night, move all the food to a place where ants can't reach, then place a piece of fat pork fat on the ground, and prepare a thermos bottle of boiling water. The next morning, the ants gathered on the fat meat and ate deliciously, so don't To scare away the ants, scald them to death immediately with boiling water. This can be done several times to eliminate them.

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Morphological characteristics

The body length of worker ants is about 2.9 mm, orange-red to dark red. The abdomen, antennal stalk segments, and leg segments are brown. The erect hairs on the body are simple and do not form trifurcations. The head (excluding the upper jaw) is slightly longer than wide, nearly square, with vertical stripes on the top of the head and both sides, and short horizontal stripes in between. The compound eyes are small, oval, black, located in the middle of the head, and have no single eye. The antennae have 12 segments, covered with dense hairs. The first and second club segments are equal in length. The third club segment is twice as long as the second club segment and has an antennal groove.

The lip base has longitudinal stripes, its trailing edge extends between the bases of the antennae, and there is a single longitudinal ridge in the center. The upper jaw has vertical stripes, the chewing edge has 6 teeth, 2 larger teeth at the end, and the lower jaw has 4 segments. The chest is about the same length as the head (including the palate). The front end of the prothorax is wider, and the anterior and lateral angles are significant. The anterior, middle and posterior thoracic plates have reticular ridges, and the grooves of the anterior and posterior thoracic plates are not obvious. The upper part of the dorsal plate groove is obvious, and both sides are indented. The posterior thoracic plate is narrow and short, and there are 2 pairs of thick spines in the middle of the back of the thoracoabdominal segment and on both sides of the posterior edge. The one in the middle is longer and has a stippled center.

There is a simple distance on each tibia. The abdomen is oval, smooth, with 4 exposed segments. The abdominal stalk has 2 tubercles. The first tubercle is longer than wide and has a stalk at its front end. The second tubercle is transversely oval, slightly wider than long and wider than the first tubercle.

Living Habits

Ant nests are generally not large, with only a few hundred individuals at most. They generally do not look for food in groups, but look for food alone. But some species also hunt in groups.

Red ants are ants that fight very hard, but they are very lazy and unwilling to look for food or raise their children. Even if the food is next to them, they will not eat it. They rely on servants to provide food, clothing, housing, and transportation for them. In order to achieve their goal, they rob different types of ants from their neighbors, such as black ants, snatch other people's pupae and transport them back to their own nests. Soon after, the snatched pupa shed its skin and became an active servant in the family.

When the hot days of June and July come, the red ants set off from home in a mighty manner. The entire team is more than 5 meters long, blindly searching for the target - black ants. Once the target is found, the leading ant stops, and the other ants also stride to catch up. After confirming that the situation is true, they all rush into the black ant's home. After a fight, the victory belongs to the red ant, who bite it with their big jaws. Pupa, hurriedly returned home.

The distance of the red ants' expedition depends on the distance of the black ants' home. They do not choose their route and have no clear destination. They can all be crossed except waterways. But their way back is unwavering. No matter how crooked or dangerous the road out is, they will go back the same way. They only know the original path.

Experiments have proven that they do not rely on smell to get home, but rely on vision to find their way home. Ants rely on their eyesight to return from the original route, but this vision is very narrow. Vision alone is not enough. Ants also have extremely strong memory. This memory can retain impressions until the next day or even longer. This memory is extremely faithful, because it guides the team through all kinds of uneven ground, taking the same path as the previous day.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Ant