Ants - the most crowded insect in the world

Extremely social ants belong to the family Formicidae, related to bees, order Hymenoptera. There are about 12,500 species of ants in the world, they are present almost everywhere in the world except icy regions and oceans, concentrated mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.

Ants are a miniature social insect of humanity, living in groups and extremely social. Ants know how to protect each other, exchange information, "raise" insects and fungi for food, as well as exploit or capture slaves.

The ant nest is a shelter for millions of ants, headed by the queen, the rest are mostly female workers with incompletely developed reproductive organs with tasks such as foraging and feeding. ants and fight when there is war. Male ants have but only appear for a short time to mate with the queen to maintain the breed. It can be said that the whole nest is full of female ants!