Deep deep in the forest floors of central and South America, try to seek them, it's impossible. As dangerous as an elephant but as tiny as a grain of sand…Army Ants…

    These incredibly dangerous insects can grow from 8mm to 12mm of length! Most of them are light brown but some can be reddish. They are very fast and intelligent. These insects are the most dangerous species of ants in the world. They can devour, dissolve, and eat a cow in a matter of hours. Scientists say that they can use their two front antennas to use the sense of smell but some people say that that isn't true.

    Army Ants don’t have an exact predator because most people and animals step on them so they consider any moving thing a predator for them. Any animal or living thing can be eaten and dissolved by army ants, and that’s why they have such a good diet.

    Army Ants love to feed on wasps, some insects and other animals that might have died but most delicious the Leaf Cutter Ants. Again Army Ants can eat any animal. They use their two front teeth and claws to bit and throw a type of venom that works as an acid to dissolve any type of skin. That is one way they have learned to survive.

    Army Ants have also learned to survive in a huge team of ants called colonies. This way the ants have more chances of getting food or fight another animal easily. In only one colony of ants there can be from 5000 to 18,500 ants!

    Army Ants have also learned to live on trees and underground to have less risk of being stepped and that’s why there are so many of them.
 

    Army Ants are truly not endangered. Maybe million of them are eaten of stepped every day but trillions of them are born each day too! People don’t really want to get into their territories, squash their nests or step on them but if they do chances are that it will end your life.

    A single queen can lay from 100,000 to 300,000 eggs in one lay! Ants don’t really have a mating pattern but the queen spends most of her time mating and laying eggs. Their survival rate can be from 3 to 13 months. Army Ants are really one of the most interesting creatures in the world!

    In conclusion we realize hoe powerful and inteligent are these creatures are also realize that you don’t want to mess with them!!!

Army Ants…

Bibliography: www.animalsoftherainforest.com