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The ant

 The ant is a small insect himenóptero of the tropics and temperate regions that it corresponds to approximately 3500 species of the family stinging insects.
 All the known ants are sociable; As the bee, but unlike the termes, the ant reigns is solitary and is not accompanied of the macho when it establishes a nest. It is in the habit of being bigger than the males and the working ones, and possesses a totally functional mouth. The warlike ants (dorilinos) do not construct nest it nor can be said that they should have permanent refuge. They advance in long columns for the field, cleaning it to his step of insects and enclosedly of birds and small mammals. They live in colonies, which can be composed by a few individuals, since in the tribe ponerinos, or for a lot of of them, up to 100 000 or more.With few exceptions, all the species have a caste of working, clearly recognizable, and integrated as sterile females whose function is to obtain food, to construct the nest and to take care of the babies. They are ápteras and are in the habit of having the small eyes. The relations between two species different from ants can be of diverse types. There are cases in which both occupy the same nest. Other ants are slave holders.

" Formic blood " one takes the cocoons of the nests of " F. Fusca " and it raises the working subsequent ones in his own colonies, adding them to his workforce and without they produce problems of acceptance. Other ants are social parasites. " Anergates atratulus " does not have working. His queen, abandoned, invades the nests of " Tetramorium caespitum " and does that the working ones of this one take care his eggs        
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