do the ants have eyes?
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Like most insects, ants have compound eyes made from numerous tiny lenses attached together. Ant eyes are good for acute movement detection, but do not offer a high resolution image. They also have three small ocelli (simple eyes) on the top of the head that detect light levels and polarization.
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If you've ever been brave enough to get up close to a bee, you may have noticed three black dots on the top of its head. These are eyes! Who knew? As well as two large eyes either side of its head, a bee has three 'simple' or 'ocelli' eyes on the top of its head.
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Ants have a keen sense of smell and can detect sugar and sweets with ease. They are very attracted to chocolate, honey, and any other sugar-laden product. Other foods that are greasy or have complex carbohydrates will attract them as well. Even a few crumbs on the floor can have a room crawling with ants in no time.
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Most ants are wingless. However, from spring to summer, ants that do have wings are seen flying in the air and swarming around the lights in our homes and other places. ... Because young male and female ants have wings, they are called winged ants. Winged female ants are ordinarily larger than winged male ants.
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Carpenter ants have a distinctive heart-shaped head with large jaws and elbowed antennae. ... Carpenter ant workers always have a rounded thorax and the one segmented petiole (a part that connects the thorax and abdomen) while other black ants have an unevenly shaped thorax with either one or two-segmented petioles.
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These ants are attracted to sweet and fatty foods, which may be used to determine their presence. Pharaoh ants will nest in the oddest places, such as between sheets of stationary, layers of bed linen and clothes, in appliances, or even piles of trash (Ebeling 1978).
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Ans: The jobs which the new ants are trained for are workers, soldiers, builders, cleaners, etc.
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Flying Carpenter Ants Both the worker ants and queen are wingless, but the swarmers possess wings. Therefore, it is not uncommon to see “flying ants” around your home if you are dealing with a carpenter ant issue on your property. Carpenter ant swarmers have two sets of wings.
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Swarming carpenter ants are attracted to light, and need to escape into the world to mate and start a new colony. This behavior sends them to sunny windows, and also attracts them to houses at night.
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Large numbers of ants can kill small or immobilized animals and eat the flesh. A large part of their diet is earthworms. All Dorylus species are blind, and, like most varieties of ants, communicate primarily through pheromones.
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Ants - and most other insects - are actually impressively fastidious. They spend considerable time and effort cleaning themselves and their nest mates of dust and other contaminating particles. Hence, ants are actually quite clean.
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No they're not blind. They can see just as well as any guinea pigs with dark eyes. It's just a pigment in their eyes, just like humans can have brown, blue or green eyes. ... If you do happen to have and unfriendly pig that has red eyes, it is nothing to do with its eye colour.
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No, as they are probably useless in maneuvering underground or building living bridges or the kind of cooperative work we see ants do. Each has their own unique skill set, which they are born with instinctively and don't have to learn, so its not accurate to call these abilities intelligence let alone compare the two.
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They use sunglasses/dim glasses for protection. Since they are known for having the characteristics of insects, we can assume that they have crepuscular vision and some have nocturnal traits - meaning that they are most active in twilight/low light/night. Their eyes are highly adapted on low light.
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Appearance. Pharaoh Ants are small, about 1/16-inch long. They colored light yellow to red, with black markings on the abdomen. Pharoah Ants look similar to Thief Ants, but Pharoah Ants have three segments in the antennal club. Since they are so tiny, they can travel and trail to many places.
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Look for Dead Ants – Piles of dead ants, particularly around a window, is another sign of an interior infestation nearby. Once again, check to see whether these bugs are ants or termites, and then take the appropriate steps to further locate the nest site. Look for Moisture – Aside from food, ants need moisture.
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Pharaoh Ants have a wide color range from light yellow and tan to reddish-brown that can almost appear to be black. Its hind-side is frequently darker and appears to be banded. Pharaoh Ants are often called "Sugar Ants" or "Piss Ants".