Did you know - Ants might have a horrid connection
Ever wondered if there is more to the story, the reason ants brings food down to their nests? What if I told you that the story is both one of utter disgust and also of some type of a frightful account. Now most people always have this sort of excitement or dare I say a frightful excitement about things that seem to be tales from the crypt.
Let us first get the disgusting part out of the way, before we visit a Frankenstein type of story. So did you know that solid food can actually kill ants, ants have very small waists that is called petioles, this doesn't actually make it difficult for them to swallow solid food, it makes it impossible.
Did you never find it strange that ants carry their food back to their nests, instead of having a picnic around the areas they actually find the food. Yes sure there are other factors involved in why they take food home, but more on this later. Let's see how they consume these solids.
Ants take solid food back home to be drooled on, disgusting right? Ant larvae drool on the food, this drool contains a type of enzyme that changes this solid to liquid, now that is cool, ain't it? Imagine changing a good piece of steak into a mouth watering protein shake or maybe not.
Now larvae doesn't always drool, sometimes they regurgitate the solid food out, also a little bit disgusting, not sure which one seems to be more appetizing. So these are some of the ways in which ants consume food, while feeding their larvae at the same time, but what got my attention was count Dracula or shall I say count Antula.
Yes, it turns out that black coats and pesty bats that turn into some sort of human figure with big blood thirsty teeth, aren't just part of some horror movie or urban legend, there are creatures native to Madagascar that share some similarities, these creature are ants, Dracula Ants(Adetomyrma venatrix).
These Ants will not wait for regurgitation or drool, O no they won't have that, these Ants will actually take a bite out of their larvae and drink their blood, like a real Dracula, now that is interesting. You might like to know that the workers of these species are blind, sounds familiar, blind as a bat and they are endangered species, this makes one think. Imagine if we had to do this. Drink the blood of our young. What's for dinner mom? Run
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