Unknown things about ants

Ants hunting slaves, can clone themselves, know how to raise insects or grow mushrooms are unique abilities that ant species can be made.

1. Ants heal wounds

Some tribes in the world, typically Masai people in eastern Africa, ants can be used as wound healing tools. When the Masai warriors were injured, they only needed to pick up a few ants from the large army of ant colonies and let them bite on either side of the wound, then remove the ants but only keep the ants wound.

2. Ants appeared more than 100 million years ago

The ant species survived from the Cretaceous period, about 110-130 million years ago. Over millions of years of evolution, ants have formed a high organization.

3. Burial services in ant nest

When one of the flocks dies, the other ants in the herd will carry the ant's body out of the nest to keep it clean, avoiding infection or disease spread in the nest. Although any worker ant can do this, the ants always have an ant in charge of this job.

4. Self-cloning ability

The ants in the Amazon region have asexual reproduction ability, creating identical copies to the mother ants. According to the researchers, the asexual reproduction characteristics of ants come from a fungus, the traditional food source of ants from more than 80 million years ago.

5. Education background in the ant world

Ants are insects that have very advanced organizational systems. An ant colony consists of many worker ants in charge of various tasks such as finding food, guarding, taking care of small eggs and ants. However, it is not right from birth that worker ants have the necessary skills to be programmed in DNA to perform these tasks, which they need to go through the learning process to do certain tasks. .

The "teachers" ants in the team will teach younger ants to do the necessary work, if "students" learn slowly and "fail" in exams, will they be transferred to another job? requires specialized skills.

6. Agriculture of ants

Attine ants do agriculture by growing mushrooms. Ants even use their special "pesticides " to fight parasites that affect the crop.

Scientists have discovered five different agricultural systems that are used. All agricultural ants share a number of habits in the mushroom garden, proving that they may have shared each other's secrets in farming.

7. Ants use herbicides and natural disinfectants

The type of bacteria found on ants' epidermis can limit the spread of parasites or weeds. This is considered a natural herbicide and disinfectant that ants use in mushroom gardens. In addition, the ant ants often add solid resin when building the nest, hindering the growth of bacteria and fungi.

Lemon ants often nest in trees, producing a natural herbicide that can kill all plants around the nest.

8. Knowledge of raising other insects

Ants know how to feed insects such as aphids and moths to get the sweetener secreted from these insects. Like cowherds, ants protect insects from the predators' intimidation and migrate them in groups.

When the time comes to harvest the sweetness from the insects 'ants' milking by using their antennae. Ants often carry insects when they move to a new area, just as people take their animals along when searching for greener pastures.

9. Tactical combat skills

Similar to humans, ant species world also exists fierce wars. When a war occurs, knowledge knows how to fight in different tactics based on the specific threat situation. Ants can even disrupt chemical signals, causing the enemy to confuse and attack each other.

10. Slavery in the ant world

In the ant world, not all ants work hard but many of them rely on the labor of slave ants. In order to capture slaves, ants waged wars to steal the spiders and enslave them when they hatched.

Polyergus breviceps are ants that are incapable of taking care of themselves and their ants and cannot even clean the nest themselves. When attacking another ant colony, this ant species releases formic acid that causes panic and crashes the enemy's defense system and easily ants robbery.