Ants play a vital role in our environment and eco-system, in fact the total mass of ants on earth is equivalent to the mass of humans (over one million ants for every human) and in some places ants can account for ¼ of the animal bio-mass in the area. There are over 22,000 species of ants and depending on the species they can live in colonies of 50 to 1,000,000 individuals. Ant colonies mostly consist of one (or several queens), a few fertile males called drones, and workers or soldiers that are wingless infertile females. Depending on the species, when conditions are just right, winged male drones and winged queens are born, they fly off in a nuptial dance and start new colonies. Most species of ants feed on both plant and animal origin, but other are exclusively herbivorous or cadaverous.
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