Mind-Blowing Facts about Ants

3 min readJun 9, 2021

ANT- are the most common pest found everywhere, around 10000 know species of ants are in this world. Ants are some unique creatures. Want to know more about ants?

HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT ANTS

1. ANTS DON’T HAVE EARS

If Ants don’t have ears how do they hear? This question might appear in your mind. They use vibration to forage for food and they use the vibration on the ground by picking up the vibration with their subgenual organ which is located below the knee.

2. ANTs have superhuman power

Yes, What you heard is 100% correct. Ants are extremely strong creatures An ant can carry approx 10 to 50 times of body weight. some species of Ants are even capable of carrying 100 times of their body weight. Studies say the reason for them able to carry this much weight is because of their small size.

3. ANTs are farmers

Unlike Human ants are the only creatures who are farmers, now the question is what do they farm? As we human farm Hens, cows sheep, and Fish, Even ants do farm with some insects for food, the most common farming insect is APHIDS, The Ants give them shelter from natural Predators and protect them from the rain in their nest in order to gain honeydew.

4. ANTs Don’t Have lungs

Like Human ants do not have a complex respiratory system. due to their small body So how do ants breathe? Ants have their own respiratory system to move oxygen around their body. Ants us the series of holes located in their side of the body these holes are called Spiracles. These are small tube connected through networks that help in the movement of oxygen and release of Carbon dioxide.

5. ANTs have two stomach

This is one of the reasons why we say Ants as the unique creators. Ants have two stomachs one of the stomachs is used to consume food for their own use and the other stomaches to store food for another ant who is in need. This process helps them to work extremely efficiently.

6. ANTs are from the age of the dinosaurs

As per the studies, Ants are one of the oldest living creators in the world, Ants first rose 130 million years at the age of Dinosaurs, they even managed to survive the cretaceous tertiary that killed the Dinosaurs and even managed to survive the Ice age. This is one of the most interesting facts that made my mind blow away.