Question

Necesito un texto en inglés sobre las hormigas

Answer 1

In the film Bugs, ants and grasshoppers are being fatal. They enslave ants and they have to work for them to eat.

- Do you think that's fair? Do you think it's the same between people?

Let us know something about the ants and their organization and way of life.


a) social organization of ants

Almost all animals have some kind of social organization. Many of the social relationships between living things have to do with survival: eat or be eaten. Some animals are grouped or work in order to join forces and fight back. Others work together, usually to the advantage of all. One example is the ants that live in colonies and are heavily modified by their adaptation to social life.

Ants live in nests forming large companies, where there is a great division of labor among several specialized castes. There are over six thousand different species, all of which are social, although their communities ranging from a dozen to several million individuals. Do you know that an ant has been discovered stretching from Spain to Italy?

Their social organization is a matriarchy, meaning that having command is the mother. The head of his organization is the queen, female usually only developed and fertile.

The behavior of ants in their society, reminiscent of the behaviors of our families and our society. For example, worker ants care for the larvae, fed and washed. Ants can communicate with each other. They can communicate, inter alia, addresses (where it is food) and give alarms.


b) Organization of the anthill

The ant is physically on a perpendicular passage, which has several side galleries, end, intended for storage of food in its depths, and also has a kind of living quarters and dump near the surface.
c) The various tasks of the ants

The basis of the organization of ants is specialization. Each has its own obligations. Social behavior exists within the hierarchy, that is he who sends or keeps order and others obey.

An ant community is divided into three classes.

- The most numerous are the workers or soldiers. These are the smallest of the community. Your task is to enlarge, maintain and defend the nest, gather food, feed and care for the queen and young. They are doing the essential work of the colony.

Much of the behavior of a worker ant is imitating their elders. Younger or novices must learn the lay of the land around the nest, so you can return to it after an expedition in search of food. You may lose their way and need to be returned home by the most experienced workers. Certain individuals of a colony seem to learn better than others. These key workers initiate various activities of the anthill, and are an example for all other ants. Ants lead their flocks of insects to different garden plants to ensure they have enough food.

Soldier ants have large heads and strong jaws because their job is to fight and crush hard foods.

- The queens are larger and winged until they are fertilized. Their job is to lay eggs almost constantly, except during the winter time.

- The winged males have small head and jaw. They are fertilizing the queen