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How do ants reproduce?

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, More than 10000 known species of ants have been found worldwide. Ants have large heads, elbow-shaped antennae, powerful jaws, and segmented bodies. They live underground in nests, in mounds above ground or in trees. Do you know how ants reproduce? below

More than 10000 known species of ants have been found all over the world. Ants have large heads, elbow-shaped antennae, powerful jaws and segmented bodies. They live in underground nests, in mounds on the ground or in trees. So do you know how ants reproduce? The following editor will introduce to you how ants reproduce.

Generally speaking, the place where ants mate is relatively fixed, and the first ones who rush to the mating site are male ants. Male ants first cluster in the air, and then females come to mate, and the location of the colony may be used by many generations of ants for many years.

Ant colony establishment is also based on sexual acquaintance and friendship through marriage and flight. Love at first sight after acquaintance, mating during or after flight. The male inserts his pencil-like stem into the female's reproductive system and produces sperm. The sperm will reach the female's fertilization sac or sperm storage organ, and the female will be responsible for reproduction with these sperm for the rest of her life. The "bridegroom" did not live long, and soon after mating, he died and left the "widow" queen to live a lonely life. The queen takes off her wings and chooses a suitable soil and place to build her nest underground.

The process of ant reproduction is generally divided into three parts: mating, spawning and nesting. When a colony of ants reaches a certain number, the queen will reproduce male and female ants in advance. When the time is ripe, the female ants fly out of the nest to mate and set up their own nests and begin to breed into a new family.

 
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