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Ants are insects living in families. They not only share one housing, but together solve all the problems that arise in their way. The lone ant is nonsense. This is a well-coordinated team of workers, ready to make their own contribution to the common cause. Depending on the species, the number of individuals in the family varies from several tens to several million. Ants, which people are accustomed to meet on their way, working females, unable to fly and multiply. Annually in their nests on the matrimonial years arrive flying females and males that mate in the air. Males perish, and females, after leaving a large number of offspring, drop their wings and look for a permanent place of residence - an anthill.

Lifespan

Workers' ants live from one to three years. And if the species is smaller, the duration of their life is lower than that of larger brethren. Also, the ants of cold regions live longer than their tropical relatives - in the cold season they fall asleep, retaining their vital activity without a single movement, and then again with renewed strength continue to exist. Mature males live for several weeks, for which the populations bring one and only benefit: participate in mating. Then they are destroyed by an anthill or fall into the beaks and paws of predators. The longest surviving individual among the ant people is the queen of ants. Some species live up to 20 years, exceeding the life of the average worker ant by 15 times.

Factors affecting life expectancy

Individuals of different types of ants may differ in theirlife expectancy. Workers of Pharaoh's species live for about 2 months, and similar bulldog workers are up to 5 years old. The soldiers who perform the role of soldiers can live longer than their ancestors in the anthill, who take care of the uterus and offspring. Morals that do not leave the nests, live much longer than soldiers and foragers who are forced to leave their habitat, often dying before reaching their natural-programmed age. Also, as with adults, ant larvae living at cold temperatures develop longer, due to this The total life of an ant increases. Tropical ants are the longest living. Their life goes on in an anthill for a maximum of 22 years. The shortest life of small ants that parasitize in foreign anthills is only a few weeks. Research laboratories have a high chance to extend the life of an ordinary worker ant to 3-4 years.