black ant

Ants are small insects that crawl, live in clusters, including the tribe of Formicidae, consisting of various types. You must already know what an ant is. Sometimes it's annoying to see the ants on our food and the Eusocial insects from the Formisidae ant family also belong to the Himenoptera order along with bees and wasps. Ants are divided into more than 12,000 groups with large numbers of tropical regions. Ants are known for their regular colonies and nests, which are sometimes made up of thousands of colony ants. Ant type is divided into 3 parts, namely: Worker ant, Ant ant and Queen ant.

One of the uniqueness of ant groups is that they are grouped in a colony (social insect), where in the colony there is a division of castes, namely queens, males, and workers. The queen is in charge of producing eggs in the colony, the males are assigned to the queen's megawini, while the workers have the task of finding food for the colony's needs, keeping the colony, and raising the eggs and larvae of the queen. Unlike the other ants that have only one queen in the colony, M. Minimum often has many queens, ie 2-28 queens. In nature there are also polydomous colonies, namely the exchange of workers between 2-5 adjacent nests. The colony is large enough to reach 8,000 workers, where these workers can appear throughout the year, while males and queens only appear during the summer (June-August). From research in the laboratory is known that the queen can live for one year and workers for four months. Despite the relatively small body size, ants are among the strongest animals in the world. Male ants are able to sustain loads weighing fifty times their own body weight, comparable to elephants that can only support burden weighing twice their own weight. Usually the black ants Dolichoderus bituberculatus nest in the shade on the tree. This ant is useful because it drives pests from fruit trees.