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Posting Rules: - Only members may post! To become a member, please use the following Members Sign-Up, and await for your entry acceptance! - Do not join if you don't like bugs! Here we will be discussing them a LOT! - You don't have to keep ants to join! Just have an overall love and curiosity for them, and you can join! - Be respectful! - Do not share false iformation! - Have fun! I'll add more rules when I see fit to! - - - Member Sign-Up Pack Name: Pack Number: Whats your favorite kind of ant?(Required): - - - Current Members: 8 • Sjuk. (#216197) • Vanilla Latte (#282231) • Spellbound (#232782) • Dragonpipe (#274408) • Duskfall (#282349) • Cassiopeia (#278462) • Cinderclaws (#286342) • Medusa (#187173) |
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Got a question? Ask here! Use the following form to ask me anything about ants! This will also keep track of who has asked what, so there are no repeats! - Question Form Pack Name: Pack Number: Question: - Asked Questions:
Vanilla Latte asked: How do you know the gender of the ants?
Answer: Very good question! You can determine the sex of ants simply by noting first if they have wings or not. All the ants you see wandering about on the ground are female workers. They all work and care for a queen, who might have wings if she never shed them, or she might have shed them and is now a wingless, mated queen, ready to burrow and begin her colony. Male alates are also winged, but the way to tell them apart from the queens is that queens are bigger than male alates!you'll know if you've caught a male because they are smaller and scrawnier than the bigger, bulkier queen! - Duskfall asked: Why do the queens of ant colonies shed their wings? Answer: Good question! Queen ants really only need their wings in order to fly during the nuptial flight, in which queens breed with a number of winged males, then fall to the ground where they bite off their wings. Claustral species, or species of ants that burrow themselves in the dirt to begin the founding stage of egg-laying, usually live off of the wing muscles left behind, whereas some species of ant Queens may never lose their wings at all! It's all up to the individual Queen! |
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Pack Name: Vanilla Latte Pack Number: #282231 Whats your favorite kind of ant?(Required): Bull ants because they pack a punch |
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Accepted! Welcome to the club! :D
Vanilla Latte said:
Pack Name: Vanilla Latte Pack Number: #282231 Whats your favorite kind of ant?(Required): Bull ants because they pack a punch
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Pack Name: Spellbound Pack Number: #232782 Whats your favorite kind of ant?(Required): Honeypot Ant, because of the way they care for each other and they look like little jewels when hanging upside down. |
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Sjuk. said:
Accepted! Welcome to the club! :D
Vanilla Latte said:
Pack Name: Vanilla Latte Pack Number: #282231 Whats your favorite kind of ant?(Required): Bull ants because they pack a punch
:D I also have a question! How do you know the gender of the ants? |
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Accepted! Welcome to the club! :D
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Pack Name: Spellbound Pack Number: #232782 Whats your favorite kind of ant?(Required): Honeypot Ant, because of the way they care for each other and they look like little jewels when hanging upside down.
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Vanilla Latte said:
:D I also have a question! How do you know the gender of the ants?
Very good question! You can determine the sex of ants simply by noting first if they have wings or not. All the ants you see wandering about on the ground are female workers. They all work and care for a queen, who might have wings if she never shed them, or she might have shed them and is now a wingless, mated queen, ready to burrow and begin her colony. Male alates are also winged, but the way to tell them apart from the queens is that queens are bigger than male alates!you'll know if you've caught a male because they are smaller and scrawnier than the bigger, bulkier queen!
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Sjuk. said:
Vanilla Latte said:
:D I also have a question! How do you know the gender of the ants?
Very good question! You can determine the sex of ants simply by noting first if they have wings or not. All the ants you see wandering about on the ground are female workers. They all work and care for a queen, who might have wings if she never shed them, or she might have shed them and is now a wingless, mated queen, ready to burrow and begin her colony. Male alates are also winged, but the way to tell them apart from the queens is that queens are bigger than male alates!you'll know if you've caught a male because they are smaller and scrawnier than the bigger, bulkier queen!
Ooh, that's very interesting! Thanks ^^ |
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That is very interesting! I find it interesting that ants have graveyards |
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