Ant Biology

Question 1

True or false: All worker ants are female

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Pre-reproductive ants with wings

Answer 2

Alates

Question 3

Single mates queen with some workers leave nest to start a new colony

Answer 3

Budding

Question 4

True or false ants have wing pairs of equal size

Answer 4

False: ants have two wing pairs of DIFFERENT sizes

Question 5

Ant have (blank) antennae

Answer 5

Elbowed

Question 6

Word used for hind end of ant instead of abdomen

Answer 6

Faster

Question 7

Species with workers that are all same size

Answer 7

Monomorphic

Question 8

Species with multiple size workers

Answer 8

Polymorphic

Question 9

First long basal segment of antennae

Answer 9

Scape

Question 10

Circular cone like anal orifice at tip of gaster surrounded by ring of hairs

Answer 10

Acidopore

Question 11

Subfamily that have single node. Has acidopore used by some species to spray formic acid

Answer 11

Formicinae

Question 12

Subfamily has only one node. Lack stingers tips of gaster do not have circular rings of hair. Have slit like anus

Answer 12

Dolichoderinae

Question 13

Subfamily has two nodes possess stingers

Answer 13

Myrmecinae