A female odorous house ant lays one egg each day. The more area the mound of anthill dirt above the ground covers the more solar heat the anthill absorbs and the warmer the nest is. They lay down a chemical trail that the other ants follow. The ants eat the fungus. The special dog bowl has a rim area that circles it.
Ants use comb-like structures on their legs to clean their antennae.
Fire ants from Mexico entered the United States through Mobile, Alabama. The maxillae chew food into small pieces. Ants swallow the liquid that comes from those pieces and spit out what remains of the food. From smallest to largest, the leaf-cutter ants are the worker ant, the soldier ant, then the queen ant. The oldest known ant in the world, found preserved in amber, lived about 100 million years ago.