The queen ant is able to live for 20-30 years

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Some scientists argue that the anthills of the complexity and sophistication of devices comparable to the human city. In the evolution of nature compensate small size of ants and harmonious development of their interaction with each other.

Each ant hill there is a clear allocation of responsibilities, "soldiers" protect the queen (queen) and other ants from attacks of all kinds of enemies, "workers" are expanding and renovating common home, and some ants even engaged in cultivation of aphids, which produces honeydew - sugary liquid that serves the ants food.

Ant families are not in vain called superorganism - they are really able to act as a whole, especially in emergency situations, such as when you want to save the queen. Despite its name, the most important female does not control, her only responsibility is reproduction, and worker ants provide food and uterus removed waste its vital functions.

The queen ants usually mates only once to obtain a stock of sperm that were enough for life, with the life expectancy of formic uterus is about 100 times greater than that of insects of comparable size, and can be up to 28+ years .

via factroom.ru