The most famous species among its tropical relatives. Atta live in communities, building entire underground cities. From birth, these ants are blind, but they are the only form of life that, like humans, conducts agriculture.
Atta Ants
However, the Attas came up with an incredible telecommunications system that is difficult to comprehend logically. In addition, ants have been found to have a functioning teleportation system. According to scientists, American ants have been using the secrets of teleportation for millions of years. In the course of research of this type, it was concluded that the atta possessed two amazing gifts: instantaneous movement and an unknown method of transmitting data over great distances.
This was prompted by the observation of blind creatures engaged in growing small mushrooms, constantly faced with the problem of transportation, but able to instantly restore order, assessing the situation with lightning speed.
Teleportation of the termite queen
Habitats
Atta ants primarily live in the American tropics. This species has more than 10 subspecies and some of them have been found in warm regions of North America and are even common in New Jersey.
Interesting!
Atta build the largest anthills in the world. Their diameter can reach as much as 10 meters, and their depth is about 6m. The underground habitat bears striking similarities to modern megacities. There are almost all modern life support systems, even water drainage and sewerage.
Conditions for keeping leaf-cutter ants
The humidity level in the living chamber of the formicarium should be from 50% to 80%, in the arena from 40% to 70%. The lowest humidity is allowed in garbage chambers. Typically 30% to 40%. The temperature regime of the formicarium is from 24 to 28 degrees Celsius. The arena allows a minimum limit of 21 degrees.
The arena, nesting chamber, and garbage chamber are connected by passages. The length of each move reaches 2 m. An ant farm can be acrylic, plaster, glass, or earthen. Optimal conditions for breeding insects include:
- large dimensions of the formicarium;
- good ventilation;
- an extensive system of passages;
- spacious arena;
- the use of coarse and fine sand, black soil, and stones.
Features of family relationships
Atta ants The huge
atta family numbers over 5 million individuals. This whole family is ruled, as it should be, by one single queen. The queen of the atta ant is located in the middle of the metropolis. To protect it, the worker ant builds a special cocoon, which in terms of strength can be compared to concrete.
The first time after birth, the female atta works to reproduce a sufficient number of working individuals, which will subsequently provide life for the city. After this, it remains in its shelter and begins to actively increase in size. The female's protective bunker is comparable in size to a coconut and almost all of its space is occupied by the queen atta.
Housing
The female atta gives rise to a new family that lives for about 20 years. It itself is placed in a special bunker with thick, durable walls, reaching the size of a coconut. There are several small holes, each performing its own role - removing excrement, supplying food, removing eggs, entering midwives.
Ant atta
The uterus is completely isolated from society. Her main role is the reproduction of offspring, which she has been doing all her life - about 20 years. Several females can live - one main one, a couple of young ones.
The housing of the remaining atta ants is numerous passages, exits, chambers, warehouses, burial grounds and much more. All this is located at a depth of 6 m with a diameter of 15 m.
Method and features of reproduction
Reproduction of ants
In the family of atta ants, only 1 queen is responsible for increasing the number, in some rare cases there may be 2 or 3. It is noteworthy, but the size of the female exceeds the size of even the largest male ant by thousands of times.
The task of the queen is to produce exactly the category of workers that the settlement now needs. There are even atta-nurses for this purpose. They control the female’s feeding process. Depending on the type of food received, an egg with a representative of the desired rank is born.
Ponerines (odontomachus)
The maximum length of these ants is 1.5 cm. Their main striking specific feature is their massive hammer-shaped jaw, which is a formidable trap for the ponerine’s hunting objects. Despite their leisurely plasticity, their mandibles (upper jaws) slam shut with incredible speed, leaving no chance for prey.
PACYHONDYLA VILLOSA
Belongs to the ponerine subfamily. This tropical ant species can be confused with a bullet ant. PACYHONDYLA VILLOSA are not so large, however, the effect of their bite unites these ants with their “relatives”. PACYHONDYLA VILLOSA chooses dry tree trunks and areas with moist soil as its habitat. Their body is colored red and black, and is covered with a thick layer of hairs that have a golden hue.
PACYHONDYLA APICALIS
A distinctive feature of representatives of this species is hunting alone. Their average length is 1-1.2 cm. Their body is dark gray in color, and their antennae are bright yellow. This unusual color combination makes the PACYHONDYLA APICALIS ants look like wasps, and their peculiar “hopping” gait only adds to the similarity.
GIGANTIOPS DESTRUCTOR
The external resemblance of this ant to the representative of the tropical species described above is striking: size, color, movement patterns. They are distinguished from each other by the length of their limbs (in GIGANTIOPS DESTRUCTOR they are larger) and the shape of their eyes (large, located on the sides of the head). This is one of the most peaceful ants - it is absolutely incapable of stinging.
Lifestyle and nutritional habits
Many interesting facts have been revealed regarding the organization of labor among ants. This species is unique due to its ability to develop agriculture, which is not much different from human agriculture. The second name of the type of leaf cutter. They got it thanks to the way they obtained food. An adult climbs a tree, uses powerful pincers to cut off a leaf and carries it to the anthill. In search of food, the insect can cover a distance of up to 1 km.
Already in anthills, insects are able to grow entire colonies of fungi. They are based on chewed brought leaves. This is the main type of food of this species.
Interesting!
Atta can lift a load that is at least twice his own weight.
From the anthill itself, numerous paths diverge in different directions along which insects move every day. Even experienced road workers can envy the complexity of these roads. In the world of atta there are even cloverleaf-type endings.
Atta ants
“...If a person could master the knowledge that tiny ants have possessed for millions of years, within a few years we would have reached the farthest stars!...” To be honest, I myself have never been interested in insects.
But recently I came across Ivan Sanderson’s book “Beasts” and, having read up to the fifteenth chapter and the atta ants, I realized that I had no strength to remain silent about it. So, meet: paranormal atta ants from North America. What kind of ants are these? The ants that created this system are called attia, a tribe of the myrmecological group of insects in the family Formicidae, or ants. Among the attia, the most famous is the atta species - like most of its relatives, it is an insect of the American tropics. However, the tribe is represented in the warm parts of North America by several varieties, and one of them has even reached New Jersey. These creatures live in communities in their cities, which are located underground.
This is the only known form of life on Earth that, like humans, is engaged in agriculture, and they have succeeded in this no less than humans, if not more. But the Attas also came up with something else, in which they are head and shoulders above us, this “something” is so incredible that it almost defies our logic. In short, this is definitely a telecommunications system, and perhaps a fully developed, working teleportation system.
Atta civilization is based on agriculture. It consists of growing certain small fungi, which are planted in nurseries from leaves and petal trimmings. Ants collect leaves and flowers from outside and bring them to cities. These cities can reach 16 meters in diameter and 7 meters in depth. The life of the city, and, first of all, the reproduction of the population, is connected with these agricultural works. Atta has to go up and collect leaf scraps. Radiating from the anthill are radial roads with underground passages, canopies that protect from heavy rains, ring roads and even “maple leaf” type interchanges. Streams of ants scurry along the roads - empty ones go out, and crumbs loaded with pieces of leaves descend towards them, reminiscent of huge sails on miniature boats. By weighing thousands of these leaves, experts concluded that their weight is at least twice that of an ant. At least in the species we studied.
Now let's get to the fun part. Atta queens are giant females that only eat and reproduce. While still small in size, they fly away from their hometown, copulate, descend to the ground, dig into it and found a new city. When the queen has given birth to a galaxy of worker ants, they begin to care for her, and in the meantime she grows to monstrous sizes and increases the number of eggs. To protect the queen, worker ants build a concrete chamber that is so strong that it can only be destroyed with a heavy crowbar. The chamber completely surrounds the uterus, and only in its very lower part there are a number of small holes for the entry and exit of food carriers, channels for the removal of excrement and the passage of “midwives” monitoring the eggs, as well as a trench for the eggs. These chambers are often about the size of a coconut, although they are slightly flattened and slightly elongated, and the walls may be three inches thick. The approaches to these cameras in some cities are also concrete.
If you get to the chamber in which the queen is located and carefully cut off the side of it, you will see that the entire chamber is occupied by a large insect, which can be marked with a thin stream of paint from a spray bottle. As long as the camera remains open or covered with a piece of glass, nothing happens. In such cases, the queen often dies or the worker ants move her to another place. Sometimes she just continues to lay eggs, albeit colored. However, if you close the camera for just a few minutes, something will happen. The uterus will disappear. This could be explained - and was previously thought - by the fact that the ants kill her and then remove the remains. But do not forget about the paint, which in some cases was applied in the form of a very bizarre pattern.
Further excavations and searches in the same city, sometimes lasting several hours, stunned all participants: a few tens of meters from the place where the uterus disappeared there was another heavy-duty concrete chamber, in which there was the same uterus with all the “identification marks” - it is magnificent felt herself, ate food and laid eggs! This has been observed time after time.
Is this instantaneous movement? And if not, how does this happen? Atta remove a foot long concrete chamber, dig a tunnel three to four inches in diameter and several yards long, dig another two foot long cavity, push the queen into it and then build a new concrete chamber around it? It is impossible to imagine that atta ants in a short time - no more than an hour, even several hours (while the experimenters are searching for the second chamber) - time manage to dig a tunnel several tens of meters long, build a new “concrete chamber” and drag the queen there.
The mystery of the atta ants has not yet been satisfactorily explained.
So far there is no acceptable evidence of the phenomenon of teleportation and no one has yet proven that teleportation experiments can be reproduced - and this is precisely the basis of scientific proof of any phenomenon. However, in recent years they have begun to talk about teleportation in a low voice in the scientific world, primarily among nuclear physicists, and then only in connection with infinitesimal particles of matter, which can be considered as immaterial and therefore not a barrier to the instantaneous movement of an equally microscopic scale. Related Posts
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Teleportation: true or false
Teleportation of atta ants
To answer this question, scientists had to make enormous efforts. The whole interest lay in the peculiarities of the behavior of the uterus during a threat to its life. If such a situation arises, the queen is able to quickly move to a completely different place and take the cocoon with her.
To confirm this, many photos and videos were taken. To do this, the uterus was marked with special paint. The individual was found already at a distance of about 400 m from its previous location.
The study of this phenomenon continues to this day, especially since the more the secrets of atta are revealed, the more questions researchers have.
Amazing creatures
What makes scientists excited is the ability of the queen and all atta ants to teleport in dangerous situations.
This is the main topic of controversy and disagreement among scientists. If the bunker is damaged, the queen atta ant inexplicably leaves the anthill and finds herself at a distance of several tens of meters from her former home. The female is capable of transmitting signals to relatives over a long distance - 5 km, and restoring a bunker similar to the previous structure.
Experiments were conducted in which obstacles were placed in the path of ants that were returning with prey through the studied area. When difficulties arose, a group of “police” ants appeared out of nowhere and cleared the road.
[edit] Experiments with queen ants
This phenomenon was most likely discovered by naturalist Ivan Sanderson and tested through a series of experiments (conducted by him and his team) described in his book Beasts.
The essence of the experiments was that a huge, clumsy female specimen (scientifically called the uterus) was placed in a bunker, having previously been marked with red paint. When the bunker was open, or its wall was covered with glass, the queen did not teleport anywhere, sometimes she simply continued to lay eggs (her purpose in the colony) and without “maintenance personnel” she often died. But when the bunker was closed, the queen disappeared at that very moment. In a closed concrete bunker! After a thorough search, she was found a few meters from the place of the experiment, and an exact copy of the bunker was transported with her. The body of the uterus was indeed covered in paint, and the wall of the copy of the bunker in the new location was also smeared with paint, as on the original. Such experiments were allegedly carried out more than once and the result was always the same - the uterus moved with an exact copy of its bunker. The new bunker was undamaged.
Campomotus (wood borer)
Golden Campomotus (Camponotus sericeiventris)
The insect has a very bright appearance: its black body is covered with a layer of shiny hairs, which sparkle with golden or silver tints in the sun. He has a rather interesting gait - he moves his limbs while pressing his abdomen to the chest part of his body.
Carpenter ant (Camponotus atriceps)
These are brown ants with unusually long limbs. Among ants that are active at night, this species is the most common. Their body is densely covered with a layer of hard hairs.
Dacetone Armigerum
Their habitat is tree trunks, where, settling, ants of this species form thousands of families. Their body has a light amber hue. The massive structure of the hammer-shaped jaw and three spines located on their body indicate active predatory behavior.
Appearance
And although attas are not the largest ants, they build the largest anthills in the world and differ from the rest in their lack of vision. There are about 15 species of atta ants in the world. They live in tropical climates and are common in America.
Life of atta ants
Atta ants are no different in structure from other species. But an amazing fact concerns the uterus itself. The body size is much larger than its relatives, its weight exceeds 700 times. The reddish creatures resemble our black ants, but they have spines all over their bodies in the upper part. A photo of the representative can be seen below.
