There are many kinds of ants, there are more than 11,000 kinds of species found on the earth, and only more than 600 kinds of species have been identified in China, but how many of these 600 kinds have you really seen? Among these kinds of ants you have seen, do you know their names?
Next, I will briefly introduce you to a few common ants in daily life.
1. Small yellow family ant
Features: Very small size, worker ant body length 1.5-2 mm, queen body length 3-4 mm, male ant body length 2.5-3.5 mm long. There are several queens in each nest, and each queen can lay an average of 3500 eggs in a year, which is extremely fertile. The food habit is very mixed, the usual sugar, cake, meat, etc. are their delicacies, the ant crawls on the infectious object, will carry a variety of germs, it is very likely to cause a variety of diseases.
Division: There are haunts all over the country, often nesting and roosting in kitchens, under the debris piles of closed balconies and gaps in walls, etc., and the harm is widespread.
Little yellow house ant
2. Big-headed ant
Features: Both soldier ants and worker ants have a pair of sharp and powerful jaws, which are powerful weapons for their hunting. Once the tentacles of the big-headed ant come into contact with the prey, they will open their jaws, firmly bite the prey, and divide the prey into five horses.
Division: One of the important endangered ant species in Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in China, generally nests in the corner of the outdoor foundation and invades the building to steal food.
Big-headed ants
3. Yellow fox ant
Features: The yellow ant is an arboreal ant species, fierce in nature, good at preying on various insects, so it is often used for biological control in agricultural production. It uses larval filaments to roll up live leaves to form "ant packs" to roost, and large colonies of yellow fox ants generally have multiple sub-nests.
Division: Widely distributed in the south of China.
Yellow fox ant
4. Lowrod's road ant
Features: The Lorraine is brownish yellow , the antennae and feet are yellow , and the head and thorax have fine longitudinal stripes , nearly dull , with a very fine web of threads between the pinstripes.
Branch: Widely distributed in China, often nesting in roadsides, corner corners, wall crevices, invading indoor food.
Lowes' Road ant
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