Society is like building a tall building, without brothers you don't have to come out.
Society I ant brother, the brain is good to make brothers more, the three light policy should be kept in mind, cut leaves to the heart.
If you walk through the savannahs of South America, it's easy to see tens of thousands of leaf-cutting ants lined up in columns, about 10 ants side by side, busy on "highways" less than the size of a palm. As far as the figure went, plants, detritus and flowers were cut into small pieces and swept away.
Some of them walked outward, some carried leaves to their homes, and some were responsible for guarding and clearing the roads, and transporting useful supplies back to the sandcastle in an orderly manner.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a castle of impregnable sand</h1>
Their castles stand in clearings in the forest, and the city is barren of grass, ancient and silent. High and low, staggered and mottled. Around the castle, ants of all sizes flow endlessly around, as if flowing with black blood.
The castle looks like a ruined wall, but for other ants and insects, it is a deep ditch and a solid ravine.
Their castles were heavily defended, with each pass heavily guarded.
The underground part of the leafcutter ant nest
In the castle, there are high halls and mansions of queens, there are ant eggs Yuyu Qionglou, there are farmland, there are caravanserais, there are landfills, and all the ant nests you can think of are all-encompassing. So aside from war and cutting transport leaves, they hardly need to leave the castle at all. Apparently, all leafcutter ants have adapted to such urban life.
But just like human cities, cities cannot function without external resources. For leafcutter ants, their resources are leaves and plant residues.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > hunting ground</h1>
In order to obtain these resources, three different forms of worker ants formed the Legion of Scavengers. The outside world is a hunting ground for leaf-cutting ants, as well as for other creatures. Only by working together can we survive in this dangerous world.
Small worker ants
They are the second smallest species in the leaf-cutting ant family and the most numerous standard model. If there is a foreign invasion, they will enter the battlefield at the first time, and as a signal soldier, they will request the headquarters to lead troops to help.
Medium-sized worker ants
Medium-sized worker ants are the second largest individual in the family.
Leaf-cutting ants absorb metal to reinforce their jaws, which is a live chainsaw.
They will then return items to sandcastles along the pheromones left behind by their predecessors.
Heavy worker ants
Heavy worker ants are the largest worker ants in the family, and they are huge and powerful. When there are stones in the way of the transport path, they will quickly support and remove the stones.
Some backward countries in South America even use their large jaws to suture wounds directly, which is still true for human skin, not to mention the much smaller insects.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > intelligent labor</h1>
The sun has not yet set, and the large troops have arrived at the nest one after another. The next work of cultivating the fungus will be handed over to small worker ants and mini worker ants.
First of all
Surprisingly, the fungi they tame are diverse and their cultivation methods vary. In the process of planting, new and old worker ants even have a certain learning ability.
After planting, the fungus will be taken care of by specialized ants. Their job is mainly to remove weeds and control the growth rate of hyphae.
They are old and frail, with severe wear and tear on their serrated teeth. Holding such a job may have been their final contribution to the Kingdom.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
In fact, many of the traditional impressions of ants are not correct.
The social forms of different ants are not exactly the same, and the world of ants has nomadic peoples, farming peoples, and robbers like marching ants. They had slavery, peasants and landlords, and for leaf-cutting ants they even entered a "communist" society to some extent.
Many worker ants can hatch into male ants, and the presence of a large number of male ants in ant colonies often means that the country is nearing extinction.
Not only that, in the world of ants, worker ants are not the tools to bow down, they will be respectful when the empress is strong, and they will also lay eggs privately when she is weak. If a male ant mates with worker ants at this time, the worker ants will even be directly yellow-robed and become the queen of a new country.
The ants also mastered the construction of skyscrapers and underground fortresses, the majesty of the buildings, the effectiveness of the organization, and even the infrastructure maniacs shouted.
The "feces" of aphids are rich in nutrients such as sugars and amino acids.
Nor are they as simple as collecting food and dragging them into a hole. In fact, they even learned how to grow fungi, graze aphids, and protect plants that are beneficial to them.
These are, of course, just the tip of the iceberg of the ant world, and they have too many secrets waiting for human beings to dig up. But even the slightest achievement of the leopard in the human tube is strongly organized and highly social.
These 140 million years have come all the way, and you asked me why Brother Ant mixed so well. I think it depends on three points: differentiation, society, and brotherhood.
There are many omissions, please axe correction
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