Interesting Facts of Insects: ANTS.. Male? Female?

As a Conservation Biology student, I often encountered interesting facts bout animal , insects and plant in my course that really amazed me~

Things that you will never thought of it although they are always been there around you~

So, I decided to share my knowledge to you all~

Today I will talk about ANTS~

"Ants? What so special bout it?" you may ask this question..

But I can tell you that there are much that you actually do not know..

The question is:

Do you know that those worker ants ( those that go out searching for food) are male or female?

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The answer is female ants!!!!

Then you wonder where does all the male ants go?

Actually male ants will just stay in the nest and wait for the right time to mate.

The female ants will provide food for them...

Weird right? 

In Chinese, they are said to be "eat soft rice" (吃软饭)

which means guys that rely on girls for living..

Xp

Then sometimes you see ants that have wings flying around the light after rain right?

And they will die on the floor within a week..

That's actually the male ants..

Only the male ants and Queen ants will poses wings to fly..

The male ants with wings

When it is the time, those workers ants will open a passage for the male ants to fly out from the nest and mate with the queens from different colonies.

After mated, the male ants will die as their duty have completed
while the queens will search for some where strategic to build their nest.
P/s: In one nest may have only one queen or few queens.

The Queen

Only queens are fertile to reproduce, other female ants/worker ants do not reproduce.

Queens only work as " reproduce machine" while
Worker ants search for food, look after for young and defend their nest.
P/s: There are actually more than 20,000 or more species of ants!!!

Interesting right?
Stay tune for more Interesting facts bout animals, insects and plants in my blog~