In the summer the wood is full of the ants which are scurrying about there and here. They stock successfully to winter and live up to spring. Very few people saw what occurs in an ant hill among winter. Its inhabitants fall into a condition of anabiosis, having turned a part of the body into glycerin.
Instruction
1. People who part house ants in special glass devices noticed that regardless of surrounding temperature in the fall at the same time life of ants changes. Same occurs also in the nature. Insects gradually prepare for winter. The uterus stops postponement of eggs, and working ants especially actively absorb allocations of a plant louse. They contain sugar which in an ant body turns into glycerin. Its share in the total weight can reach 30%. So insects preserve themselves as fat glycerin does not allow to turn to their little bodies into ice.
2. Then ants batten down the main exits from an ant hill, leaving only air vents, and go down to the deepest rooms of the dwelling. The courses and caves in an ant hill can leave deep into on 3-4 meters. Than surovy the winter is expected, that further from a surface ants hide. If since fall to install thermometers in an ant hill, then they will show that in some cameras temperature falls up to-30, and in others remains on marks from-1.5 to-2 degrees.
3. Depending on a view with working ants and a uterus, larvae and winged individuals sometimes winter. So insects guarantee themselves reproduction. Winged ants will manage to leave an ant hill and to base new at once with approach of heat, and larvae quickly will give new generations of working ants and males.
4. If to dig out in the winter an ant hill, it is possible to see that insects not just sleep, and stay in the slowed-down state. They are not capable to attack the violator of borders, but instinctively emit acid and swing mandibles.