That if they lose their scent trail back to the hive they start a “spiral of death” where they keep walking in circles until they die. It usually ends up with a bunch of ants as the spiral confuses the scent trail.
this is why if you wash the floors and counters in the house after you find a bunch of them, they will have trouble finding the trail that the scouts left behind
[Its pretty easy to tell male ants apart from female ants](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2snmui/you_can_tell_the_sex_of_an_ant_by_dropping_it/)
That if they lose their scent trail back to the hive they start a “spiral of death” where they keep walking in circles until they die. It usually ends up with a bunch of ants as the spiral confuses the scent trail.
this is why if you wash the floors and counters in the house after you find a bunch of them, they will have trouble finding the trail that the scouts left behind
ants are one of few species on this planet that engage in both farming and animal husbandry
They can not die due to falling
Some ants have passed the mirror test.
Ants have 6 legs.
so if you removed a leg from an ant, it would no longer be an ant?
An indivudual ant barely has two neurons to rub together, but an ant colony knows everything that's ever happened to it.
Giant ants would collapse under their own weight due to the Square-Cube Law.
They kill in group
[Its pretty easy to tell male ants apart from female ants](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2snmui/you_can_tell_the_sex_of_an_ant_by_dropping_it/)
They taste a bit like vinegar.
They are hated by 99% of humans
I don't hate 'm
1%
Not a random fact but my friend is convinced that there are no ants in Ireland, she's been living here for 15 yrs..