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ARMY ANTS OF THE AMAZON
This short presentation was created to provide educators and students information
to enhance learning about this subject.
Linda Gorman Hayes
ANTS, ALTHOUGH ADMIRABLE, ARE AWFULLY AGGRAVATINGBY, WALTER R. BROOKS
The busy ant works hard all day And never stops to rest or play.He carries things ten times his size,And never grumbles, whines or cries.And even climbing flower stalks,He always runs, he never walks.He loves his work, he never tires,And never puffs, pants or perspires.
Yet though I praise his boundless vim I am not really fond of him.
JUST WHERE DID THESE FIRE ANTS COME FROM?
NORTH CAROLINA FIRE ANT
ipminc.wordpress.com
MAP OF THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST
WHAT IS THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST?
The Amazon Rain Forest is an area of land that has many tall trees, a warm climate, and lots of rain. It is located in South America. The Amazon Rain Forest is the largest rain forest in the world.
The forest is made up of four layers:
The emergent layer The canopy
The understory The forest floor
THE AMAZON ARMY ANT
LIFE CYCLE OF AN ANT
It takes about 8 -12 weeks for an ant to hatch from its egg
Adult
eggslarva
pupa
Imported Red Fire Ants Amazon Army Ants
Traveled from South America by boat and now live in the southern United States
Live in the Amazon Rain Forest in South America
Workers live about 1- 1 ½ months
Life span 3 – 13 months
Create mounds of nests in the ground and set up their home anywhere
Do not make permanent nests, but build nests by attaching their bodies together
Very aggressive hunters Attack in large numbers and swarm their prey
Eat leaves, stems, roots, spiders, bees, birds, and mice
Eat just about anything
Eat other insects that destroys crops
Eat what is dead or dying on the forest floor
Bite and sting Bite and sting
FACTS ABOUT THE ARMY ANT
Since the army ant is very aggressive, they are at the top of the insect food chain- that means there aren’t too many other insects that eat them.
Even though they are blind, they communicate by touch, sound and scent.
They clean the forest floor of the dead and rotten matter.
BOTH ANT GROUPS HAVE JOBS
Red Fire Ant Amazon Army Ant
Queen – lays the eggs Queen – lays the eggs
Young workers – take care of the brood
Soldiers – protects the colony
Middle age – clean and protect the colony
Eldest – forage for food Workers – forages for food and feeds the soldiers
REFERENCES
Slide 2 – Ant poem by Walter R. Brooks http://www.oocities.org/heartland/1133/animalpoems/bugspoems.html
Slide 3 – fire ant picture: http://web.biosci.utexas.edu/fireant/index.html
Slide 4 – North Carolina fire ant http://ipminc.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/ant1.jpg
Slide 5 – South America and the Amazon Rain Forest Image
http://enviro-map.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/amazon_forest.jpg
Slides 7 & 10 – Amazon Army Ant
http://www.bugaboopest.com/army%20ant.png
Glosopedia http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=7
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/08/army-ants/moffett-text