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Nadia Abdullah

Dr Momtaze

Qatar University

Table Contents

Why ant? About ant Reproduction cycle The Queen The ladies social: Communication skills The Relationship between ants and plants The Relationship between ants and people

Why Ants

Interesting insects

Different insects

Mention on holy Qurane

About Ants

Over 10,000 species of ants A few species of ants hole up Reproduce by laying eggs Three parts of the body: head, thorax,

abdomen Live in colonies and are social insects next to

bees and wasps The colony or workers are childless females

Reproduction Cycle

Males are produced only during mating seasons

At this time male and females are born with wings, The females are future queens and the males will die after mating

Males (life span is 2 to 3 days) and females reproduce in the air

Reproduce by laying eggs: it’s take between 5 and 7 days

In spring , summer, and fall you can see queens mating

Eggs LarvaePupae

Adult

The Queen

Biggest ant in colony She gives her colony a different smell Takes care of the first group of ants Can live up to 15 years and only needs to mate

once to lay millions of eggs Also produces some think( a pheromone )that

lets the workers know she is healthy every month

Fact: Some colonies have more than one queen

The Ladies Social: Communication Skills

Ants communicate with each other through taps of the antennae and smell

Chemical feels: chemical feels are used to taste and smell as the nose and mouth to humans .Ex. To transport food back to the nest, Also if nest is worried a chemical is created, at fast speed, to warn colony of danger. Sometimes humans can smell this in larger colonies

Sound?

Fact: All communication skills may be used together

The Holy Quran Say

الرحيم الرحمن الله بسم): حتى تعالى نملة إذ قال قالت النمل واد أتوعلى ا

سليمان اليحطمنكم مسكنكم ادخلوا النمل يأيها( اليشعرون وهم وجنوده

العظيم الله صدق

Relationship between Ants and Plants

Important to break up seeds they crop for food

They turn over and air the earth more 5x more than earthworms

The thorn tree: ant lives in a tree that is covered with thorns, and they bore holes in the thorns to make homes. In return, the ant protects the tree from the leaf cutter ant who destroy the vegetation of the tree

Plants give food for the ants

Relationships Between Ants and People

The ants kill the rats that wait in our gardens that may cause diseases

Ants help the environment by taking unwanted plants

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