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  Brain Drains

Ant Quiz #74

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1. All ants go through four stages of development starting with an egg and ending as an adult ant. What are the two stages in between?


2. Ants communicate by smelling and tasting chemicals secreted by glands on their body. What are these chemicals called?


3. Weaver ants use leaves to make their nests in trees. They use strands of silk to glue the leaves together. Where do they get the stands of silk?


4. Leafcutter ants harvest leaves and carry them back to underground chambers to grow what kind of food for the colony?


5. Some ants get their food from the sugary secretions of insects like aphids and caterpillars that feed on plants. In return, ants protect these sugar-producing insects from enemies and give them shelter. What is this kind of partnership called?


6. What ants have workers that hang from the ceiling of the nest with hugely swollen abdomens full of sweet liquid food?


 
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