According to foreign media reports. In the dense forest of the Amazon in Brazil, some netizens filmed a picture of thousands of marching ants attacking the hive. In order to make a living, millions of marching ants built a U-shaped ant bridge with their flesh, suspended from the eaves, connected to the honeycomb under the eaves, so that the marching ants in charge of the attack could step on their torsos and pound the wasp nest.
After the hive is breached, the wasps in the nest will abandon the nest and flee, and then the marching ants will take advantage of the void and rob the pupae, larvae and eggs inside, as well as some bumblebees who have no time to escape, and enjoy it as a meal for the entire colony.
Marching ants, also known as legion ants, are one of the most creepy ants on Earth, and are collectively known as members of five different ant subfamilies, including the subfamily of mammoth ants, the subfamily leaf-cutting ants, the subfamily spear ants, the subfamily of wandering ants, and the subfamily of fine ants.
As the name suggests, the most important feature of the marching ant is the large-scale legion combat, countless ants form a huge legion, densely packed, black pressure on a piece, the momentum is indeed very frightening.
Marching ants, which live mainly in the Amazon River Basin, are migratory ants that do not even have a fixed dwelling and are accustomed to finding prey on the way. They prefer to live in groups, and generally a group consists of one or two million ants. There is a clear division of labor within the group, and they have four forms, each of which corresponds to a different job responsibility.
The queen is the supreme ruler of the marching ants, and there is only one queen in the marching ant colony, which has no wings and a large extended cylindrical abdomen that can lay three or four million eggs per month.
Males are larger than soldier ants, with wings on their backs and a cylindrical abdomen. Male ants have always lived a fairy life of wearing clothes to reach out and open their mouths. It doesn't have to do anything but mating.
Worker ants are the most abundant ants in the colony, with larger antennae specializing in food detection and strong worker ants specializing in carrying food.
Soldier ants are much larger than worker ants, and their jawbones are extremely developed, with a strong bite force. In the face of danger, the soldier ants will have the unshirkable responsibility to charge the battle, protecting the queen and worker ants and small ants to a safe area.
Some soldier ants have poison in their jaws, which can paralyze other animals, and if people are bitten, they will be painful due to strong toxins, and this pain will accompany them for several days.
Marching ants, unlike ordinary ants, do not build nests themselves, and from birth they gather together to form different offensive groups to fight together, and wherever they can eat, they are ruthlessly attacked by them, including insects, small mammals or reptiles.
When they hunt their prey en masse, they generally set out in regular columns, and sometimes they advance in broad horizontal formations. As soon as they leave the camp, the marching ants form many branches, enveloping and besieging the hunting object! All soft-bodied insects and slow-moving insects become food in their mouths.
The worker ants in the marching ants have strong jaws, the jawbone is very developed, the bite force is much stronger than the average ant, and the soldier ants are able to inject poisonous saliva into the prey through the claws, paralyzing it, and then tearing the prey apart with their strong jaws for easy carrying.
It can be seen that snakes or rats, small animals that dare to stand in the way of marching ants, are joking about their own lives. Even ant-eaters who feed on ants are jealous when they see a large number of marching ants.
"Ant Bridge" is a way for marching ants to help each other, and "Ant Bridge" is also a hunting channel for marching ants. In this process, the colony does not consider the death of individuals, but focuses on the overall situation. That is what everyone often says: sacrifice the small self to achieve the big self.
When the marching ants encounter the stream and ravine, the advance troops in front of them immediately transform into fearless and fearless death troops, they will hug each other and roll down from the edge of the cliff; after climbing to the opposite shore, the small ants bite each other head and tail, forming an ant bridge connecting the two banks, so that the large army behind them will step on their own bodies.
At night, marching ants will bite each other together, forming a huge ant cluster and resting in groups. During the break, the worker ants huddled in the outer circle, the soldier ants stood guard in the inner circle, and the queen and male ants rested behind them.
In some primitive tribes of Africa, ants were used to treat wounds. They will pinch the ant's body and use its large jaw to bite through the skin at the edge of the wound, so that the skin on both sides of the wound is tightly clamped together, and then they pull out the ant's body, leaving the pierced jaw on the wound to promote healing.