THE CLASSES OF THE ANT

Hi, today im going to  share about my task that i've done for my Academic Communication 1 subject. I had found a very interesting topic that related to our daily life. So, this my own word that i can share for everyone. Although ants are frustrating when they get into your home or when they bite or crawl on your food. We rarely see they alone. They always in teen carry along together even just a bit of biscuit for their long journey from kitchen to their home in the cracking wall. They are social insect, which mean they live in large colonies or groups. They have their own unique characteristic who distribute task to various castes. 

The queen is one of the classes of the ants. They have its differences between male workers and female ants through its large size, wings, bulky thorax, and central placement within the colony. The queen will noticeably bigger than the surrounding ants and be as a leader in the colony. Generally she will be the mother of all others ant in the colony. Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect up to 30 years. Next, the queen was born with wings. During the queen’s adult life, she will need to fly for mate. However, there will be some male ants do have wings but they tend to be slightly less noticeably because it will generally look more slender than a queen. There will be some female ants do not need to mate to produce offspring because they reproducing through cloning and all of those offspring will be female. According to Vincent Dietman and Bert Holldobler (2005),  ants queen generally monopolize reproduction, eventhough female workers are able to produce males in orphaned colonies. This proves that the queens job is to lay eggs. Besides, The General Information on Ants Behaviour Articles (2009), stated that the queen lay all eggs in the colony amounting to million in some species. However how does she start her colony? All male ants and young winged queens leave their nest and fly high for mate. The queens tear their wings off before forming a new colony. After mating, the queen starts a new colony and raises her first worker offspring.

Furthermore, There are females colony in ants gender. There are two kinds of females that can mate. Female that can mate is called queen. They are the larger than the other members of their colonies. This type of female is important species in the ants colonies because they ensure the survival of their species. The majority of queen ant’s egg grow up to become wingless, sterile female ants of worker for the female species that cannot mate are called soldier. They become soldier because they cannot lay eggs because their reproductive organs are not well developed. According to Martha Adoms, “the non-mating female will raise the babies, gather the food they will maintain and expand the nest or usually will took care of the queens needs”. From the ant Ark article, stated that nearly all the ants that people saw are female ants. Males ants or drones don’t do any work in the colony. They only live only for a few months and their job is to fertilize a princess. There are many types of ants that exist in this world. One of that types is leafcutter ants in leaf cutter species. There are only females colony that are exists from national geographic news, the author Anna Kimmier proposed that there only females in this species and they thrive without sex. They evolved to reproduce only when queen clone themselve.

Last but not least, drones are the only male ants in colony. “They usually even smaller than the workers,” by www.antday.com&Yassen Dobrev_antday. Male ants head and mandibles (ant’s jaws) are small. One can see their genitals with the nacked eye. Their complex eyes are larger than these of workers or females. Their behavior is inadequate. Drones hatch from infertilized eggs, which can be laid in special cases by workers. From the ant Ark article, stated that “they are born from un-fertilized eggs.” This happen when queen is dead in other to keep the colony’s genes. In the nest drones do not do any work at all. They even cannot feed their own, but workers feed them. The only aim in a drone’s life is to fertilize a princess. After that they die. Moreover, in the ant society, male ants serve only one purpose inseminate the queen. The queen store sperm that she collects from the males in her abdomen (spermatheca) which she uses to start the colony. She can continue for years, even up to 30. Tiny, like other male ants, was born with a higher mortality rate. This is even mentioned in book, “The Ants” written by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson Swith and Shaw (1980),  have pointed out that because of their homozygous state, hymenopterous males always express lethal and subvital alleles in their genome and hence inevitably suffer higher mortality than females. This is also why the female to male ratio is higher.