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ANTS TRIVIA QUIZ - Ant Trivia General Knowledge Questions and Answers Pub Quiz
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** Ant / Animal General Knowledge Pub Quiz Trivia Questions And Answers:
1. What do you call a group of ants?
Army, colony, swarm
2. True or false? Ants are vegetarians.
False. Mostly omnivores.
3. What are the 3 main ants in the ant hierarchy?
Queen, Drones (males), Workers (females)
4. True or false? The sole existence of the male ant (drone) is to mate with the queen.
True
5. Which continent is the only one with no ants?
Antarctica
6. How long do ants live for?
Queens can live 15-20 years, while drones and workers only live for ~2 months
7. Which ant has the most painful bite? With a Schmidt’s sting pain index of 4+?
Bullet ant
8. True or false? Ants never sleep.
False. They take around 250 ~1 minute power naps throughout the day
9. Ants have 2 stomachs. What are the purposes for each stomach?
One for themselves and one for storage for sharing with others.
10. True or false? After a queen mates, she never mates again.
True! She stores sperm from mating, flies off to start a new colony, and loses her wings soon after.
11. What are worker ants responsible for?
Caring for the queen & young, foraging for food, policing conflicts, waste disposal
12. Around how many species of ants are there around the world?
More than 10,000
13. This ant species is known for clumping up to form rafts with their own bodies in times of flooding.
Fire ants
14. Around how many times of their own weight can ants carry?
More than 50x
15. Some ant species are farmers. What kind of species do they commonly protect so they can farm a precious substance?
Ants protect aphids for the honeydew it produces
16. True or false? Ants can survive for days to weeks underwater before drowning.
True!
17. How did fire ants get their name?
From the painful burning sensation after being bitten by one
18. True or false? Ants can’t fart.
True. They don’t pass gas.
19. What determines a larva becomes a worker or a queen?
Richer protein diet in the larval stage turns larva into a queen.
20. What do you call worker ants that gorge on food to serve as food storage for the colony?
Repletes or honeypot ants
21. List all ways ants communicate with one another?
Pheromones, sound by rubbing parts, touch, mouth to mouth liquid exchange
22. Approximately how many ants are alive at any given time on Earth?
10 quadrillion
23. Which species of ant has the largest known colony spanning 3700 miles (6000 kilometres) throughout Italy, France and Spain.
Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)
24. Ants don’t have ears. So what do they “hear” with?
Subgenual organs (found below their knees)
25. What species did ants evolve from?
From wasp-like creatures 140 to 168 million years ago.
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Attributions:
22 mm long Bullet ant near La Selva Biological Station (OTS), Costa Rica. by Hans Hillewaert
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Myrmecocystus ants storing nectar to prevent colony famine. Taken at the Cincinnati Zoo. Photo by Greg Hume
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