Red ants have the ability to distinguish the shape of the object, regardless of the size and color, as well as to determine the color.Insects have poor eyesight, but a highly developed sense of smell and touch.Olfactory organs are located on the antennae.These antennae red ant touches objects in its path.The development of this sensory organ allows insects to easily identify "us" and "them."They also find their way to the anthill by smell traces.
structure ant
These insects have one characteristic feature by which they can be distinguished from other Hymenoptera.All ants have a thin stem, consisting of two or one segment and is located between the abdomen and chest.In other Hymenoptera abdomen is attached directly to the chest.Working individuals do not have wings, the males always with wings and the females they appear only at the beginning of development.Later, when they become "Queen," they dumped them.
only red ants have metaplevralnye cancer.Expectation that their contents is used for disinfection nests.
brain mass and body corresponds approximately the same proportions as that of the dog - 1: 200 or 1: 300.Mushroom bodies performing functions similar to those of the cerebral cortex in animals, some species occupy half of the total volume of the brain.This explains the fact that the ability to learn the insects are not inferior to the birds.
located at the base of the jaw glands that produce the alarm pheromone.If you disturb a group of ants on top of an anthill, then you can see how it will diverge from the excitement.After some time, the inputs from different individuals begin to appear, aggressive-minded enough.Start a chain reaction.The insect, which is disturbed, takes a defensive position and begins to "shoot" of the alarm pheromone glands.Liquid consists essentially of formic acid and indekana (carbon).With formic acid red ants kill prey and protected.At the same time it functions as a pheromone affecting other animals.Indekan acts as an irritant, causes other ants aggression.
If you stop to disturb the insects, then some time later they calm down.However, if the air is too high concentration of pheromone, the red ants start to behave differently.For example, the North American working individuals "reapers" at an elevated level of pheromone in the air beginning to dig."Wandering ants" leave the nest, moving to a different location.
as unconditioned stimulus insect acts and smell of females.If, for example, ether or alcohol wash to highlight the female calf and the solution soak a small piece of core pith, the males begin to care for him as a female.
Ants belong to the category of public polymorphic insects.The outer skeleton of chitin represented.
Head individuals may have a round, conical, square, pyramid, heart, plano-convex shape.Regardless of the shape of this part of the calf, it is always present in the vapor clavate antennae.They are located in holes between the eyes.At the head of ants present crown, brow, you can sometimes see and cheeks.Some individuals have three simple eyes and a pair of compound eyes.Many ants absolutely no vision.
mouth parts of insects gnawing.Some ants have so-called podrotovye bags.When cleaning the nest, they add up to the dust.Insects have a wide upper and lower lip, as well as two pairs of jaw (mandibles).For
head should breast.It consists of three segments.For breast attached three pairs of legs, each of which is present pyatichlenikovaya foot.
