Ants are social animals, small in size, strong in strength, industrious and brave, strong in dedication, extremely meticulous in their division of labor, strong in unity and cooperation, as pets, observing their industrious construction of homes, extremely interesting. It is also continuing to heat up as a pet. Here we recommend you the top ten varieties that are cost-effective, easy to raise, and popular among players, and please taste them.
Fei's bow-backed ant
Fischer's Bowback Ant: A typical arid pet ant breed with a bright, bright, bright and beautiful body. It is a very easy breed to raise, and the appearance is super high, once known as the most beautiful ant breed in China. Many players mistakenly think it's an all-yellow Turkish humpback ant, but they're a completely different species.
Yellow fox ant
Yellow fox ant: artificial rearing is relatively easy, fast growth and reproduction, simple management, high survival rate. The larvae are used to spit silk, roll up the leaves to build a nest, and the nest is hung in an inverted cone on a branch 6-10 m above the ground. Ferocious, good at preying on a variety of insects, 1700 years ago, China used it to control citrus pests, is the world's oldest precedent for biological control of pests.
Beautiful and fierce, very distinctive. They use larvae to weave nests in trees, eat meat as long as it is meat, and even often prey on other ants, and the number is amazing. It's just that artificial breeding is more troublesome, but this difficulty can't resist the enthusiasm of ant friends.
Thompson's spiny ant
Thompson Spiny Ant: Can damage offenders with formic acid, which can spray up to half a meter away. Because of this secret weapon, they no longer need to bite as an offensive means, so they can hardly bite. Of course, the pairs of spikes on its body are also good defensive weapons.
A very common and common pet ant, "Ant Force" is made by this ant, which is widely distributed in southern Asia, and will make nests in trees and use their larvae to spit silk to weave nests. Because it is very good to raise, so play more.
Big-toothed raptor ant
Big-toothed ants: The latest scientific research suggests that the big-toothed ants are the fastest-aggressive animals on Earth. Its jaw closure speed, ranked first in the world, can bite its prey in 0.13 milliseconds, 2300 times faster than the speed of human blinking. In addition, it has a sting needle at the end of the abdomen, and there will be obvious pain after being stung, but there is no great harm to the human body.
Because of its cool appearance, it attracts countless powders, plus the two upper jaw closure speeds are known as "the first in the animal kingdom", and it will bounce! But they are less adaptable and more difficult to keep, otherwise they would be more popular!
Red-footed repair ants
Red-footed cultivator: Predatory and carnivorous ants, fierce in temperament, stout in stature and mighty in appearance. It is mainly active on the ground, but can also feed on trees and prey on the larvae of the masson pine caterpillar. Will spray foam which is very interesting. It also screams and warns offenders. Poor climbing power, easy and convenient to raise.
The ability to single-handedly is very strong, with a hard body wall, very fierce, often a single fight with prey, known as the "lone ranger". Because their ability to climb walls is very poor, feeding is very convenient, so there are many fans of playing.
Red-headed bow-backed ants
Red-headed humpback ant: Known as the largest ant in China. Large worker ants are strong and thick, with well-developed heads and powerful palates. Small worker ants are slightly elongated. The queen is as stout as the Dagong ant, is larger, has a thicker and larger chest and abdomen, and has wing marks that make it easy to identify.
The largest ant in China, with a large and stout body, and the red head is very gorgeous, when you see them in person, you must feel very shocked! Although there are not many people who play and raise, popularity is an inevitable trend.
The Chinese four-section big-headed ant
Chinese four-sectioned big-headed ants: basically the same habits as other species in the same genus, but they are larger, more ferocious, the same will move troops in a procession, breed fast, and the number of mature communities can reach tens of thousands. There is a habit of building dedicated walking paths near the surface.
The typical team spirit represents the differentiation of the soldier ant level, the division of labor and cooperation is the most clear, its behavior habits contain a lot of wisdom embodiment, and the evolution level is very high. This is also the main reason why players love to play and raise it.
Total heterogeneous blind leafcutter ant
Totally heterogeneous blind leafcutter ant: high degree of evolution, extremely clear division of labor, there are specialized soldier ants, very ornamental. When the temperature, humidity, and food are suitable, they are very overcrowding pet ants. In the wild, the number of populations can reach hundreds of thousands, and their habits are quite similar to those of "marching ants", and sometimes they will "march" in a big way.
Originally a classic popular breed of pet ants, it is now hot. The difference in body shape between large soldier ants and queens and worker ants is unbelievable by hundreds of times. It is fierce, very united, very finely divided, very fun.
Japanese bow-backed ant
Japanese Humpback Ant: Due to its easy access, strong adaptability and inexpensive price, it has become a very common ant pet. From the morphology can be divided into two types of worker ants, the big worker ants are also what we often call soldier ants. Because it was first discovered and named in Japan, it was named the Japanese bow-backed ant.
The world's most popular pet ants, the finished ant workshop is mostly this ant, it is very adaptable, easy to raise, is the standard novice entry breed. But the appearance is more ordinary.
Hunting sickle ants
Sickle Hunting Ant: With huge claws and well-developed stingers, it is cool in appearance, good at jumping, and very fierce. When they spot a prey or enemy, they shake their butts from side to side. Usually trailing the prey lurking closer, suddenly jumping up to attack and firmly clamped with the long sickle-like teeth, and then giving it a fatal blow with the tail sting needle.
Extremely personal appearance characteristics, almost no players do not like, and their behavior is very interesting, the number of people raised in the country is also very large, very popular.
The above selection only represents the perspective of the Animal and Plant Encyclopedia of Sbike, if there is any omission, I hope you will leave a message to supplement, and the deficiencies are welcome to criticize and correct.
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