Red ant

Red ant

Red ant is a general term for many ants whose body color is red, not a specific species. The picture shows the red Hummer ant. The red ant is about 3 mm long and has bristles on its antennae and legs. They are carnivorous or predatory ants, and are the most primitive life style and morphological structure in Formicidae.

morphological character

The body length of worker ants is about 2.9 mm, orange red to dark red. The abdomen, antennal peduncle and legs are brown. The body is erect, the hairs are simple, and do not form trigeminal. The head (excluding the upper jaw) is slightly longer than the width, nearly square, with longitudinal stripes on the top and both sides, and short transverse stripes between them. Compound eyes small, oval, black, located in the middle of the cephalic side, without monocular. The antennae are 12, with dense hairs on them. The first and second segments are equal in length. The third segment is twice as long as the second segment, with antennal groove. Labial base with longitudinal stripes, posterior margin extending between antennae, central with a single longitudinal ridge. The upper jaw has longitudinal stripes, the chewing margin has 6 teeth, the end has 2 larger teeth, and the lower jaw has 4 segments. The chest is about the same as the head (including the upper jaw), the front of the chest is wide, the front angle is significant, the anterior, middle and posterior thoracic lamina have reticular ridges, the anterior and middle thoracic lamina groove is not obvious, the upper part of the middle and posterior thoracic lamina groove is obvious, both sides are concave, the posterior thoracic lamina is narrow and short, and there are 2 pairs of thick spines in the middle and both sides of the posterior edge of the back of the thoracoabdominal segment. There is a simple spur on each tibia. Abdomen oval, smooth, exposed 4 segments. The first nodule is wider than the first nodule and has a stalk in the front. The second nodule is transverse oval, wider than the first nodule.

Life habit

Ant nests are generally small, with only a few hundred individuals at most. Generally, they don't look for food in groups, they look for food alone. But some species also hunt in groups.

Red ants are very fierce fighting ants, but they are very lazy, unwilling to look for food, unwilling to raise children, even if the food next to it, it will not eat, their basic necessities of life depend on servants to complete for them. In order to achieve their goal, they go to grab different kinds of ants from their neighbors, such as black ants, take other people's pupae and transport them back to their nests. Soon after, the pupa molted and became an active servant at home.

When the hot June or July comes, the red ants start from their home in a mighty way. The whole team is more than 5 meters long, blindly searching for the target - black ants. Once the target is found, the leading ant stops and the other ants catch up. After the situation is confirmed, all the ants rush into the black ant's home. After a fight, the victory belongs to the red ant. They bite the pupa with their jaws and rush home.

The distance of the red ant's expedition depends on the distance of the black ant's family. They don't choose the route and have no definite destination. They can go through all but water. But the way they come back is unswerving. No matter how crooked and dangerous the way they come out is, they go back the same way. They only know their way.

Experiments have proved that they go home not by smell, but by vision. Ants return from the original road by vision, but this vision is very narrow, vision alone is not enough, ants also have a strong memory. This memory can keep the impression until the next day or even longer. This memory is very faithful, because it guides the team through all kinds of uneven ground, walking the same way as the day before.

distribution

Termite

Ponerine is a kind of Formicidae, which is distributed in subtropical and tropical humid areas of the world. It's not common in big cities.

Medicinal value

The pharmacological and immunological experiments of red ants at home and abroad show that red ants have obvious anti-inflammatory, antiasthmatic, sedative, liver protective and analgesic effects. Especially for rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, zinc deficiency caused by infant dysplasia, middle-aged and elderly premature aging has a good effect. And it has certain anticancer effect. It can adjust the immune function of human body and inhibit the growth of fungi and Staphylococcus aureus. Eating red ants has obvious effects on strengthening body and bone, strengthening body and eliminating pathogenic factors, enhancing human immune function, sexual function, fitness, beauty and anti-aging. In addition to rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica, malignant tumor, chronic hepatitis, tuberculosis, impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, less white hair, neurosis, iron deficiency anemia and so on have good curative effect.

Main functions of wild red ants

(1) Bone and joint diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbocrural pain;

(2) Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, sequelae of cerebral thrombosis, angina pectoris, myocarditis, heartache;

(3) Respiratory diseases: tracheitis, asthma, tuberculosis;

(4) Urinary system diseases: nephritis, impotence, premature ejaculation, sexual coldness, prostatitis;

(5) Digestive system diseases: hepatitis, cirrhosis, ascites, stomach disease, dyspepsia, constipation, cholecystitis;

(6) Nervous system diseases: headache, insomnia, autonomic nerve dysfunction;

(7) Immune diseases: lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, dermatomyositis, nodular arteritis;

(8) Other diseases: diabetes, advanced cancer, cancer surgery, less white head, tooth loss.

component

The red ant body contains 27 kinds of amino acids such as threonine and lysine, including 8 kinds of essential amino acids for human body, protein, calcium, vitamin B1, B2, B12, e, zinc, iron and other trace elements, especially the trace element zinc, which is 10 ~ 20 times higher than any food in nature, and contains lemon (c1oh160), formic aldehyde (HCHO), sternal (c11h14o) lemon The ant also has a special "ant antibiotic", that is, a special antibiotic, such as posterior thoracic polar glandulin.

influence

1. In China, it belongs to indoor dominant population, with the largest number. This kind of ant is smaller than the outdoor ant, only 3-4 mm, the whole body pale yellow to red. Red ants generally choose to nest in the crevices close to food and water. They have a variety of food habits, but they prefer sweets and meat

Products. If you find groups of ants indoors, it means that the place is full of ants.

2. There are several queens in each nest of red ant, which have strong fecundity. They crawl on infectious objects (such as used surgical dressings and toilet articles), and directly carry a variety of bacteria (such as typhoid, dysentery, Yersinia pestis, etc.). When they eat people's food, they will bring bacteria to the food, causing a variety of diseases.

3. Red ants will use their sharp mouth to bite people and animals when they are stimulated by external factors. After being bitten, they will feel itchy and painful, accompanied by a light odor. Therefore, people living indoors should not touch red ants with their hands when they find them, or they will be easily bitten or infected with bacteria.

prevention and cure

First of all, we should cut off the possibility of red ants entering the house at the source. This requires residents to do: before the home decoration, to deal with or clean the home decoration materials, to avoid the ants into the room. Because the most attractive food for ants at home is sweet and greasy food, so it is necessary to collect the food in time, properly keep the food in the kitchen and storage room, and cover the honey, so that red ants have no chance to take advantage of it. In addition, we should keep the room clean and sanitary, plug all kinds of indoor cracks and holes, and prevent ants from nesting and breeding indoors.

Secondly, the chemical control of domestic ants mainly depends on bait. The commonly used bait is to kill cockroaches and ants. We should grasp the principle of more and less when we put it in. We should use the carrying capacity of worker ants to bring the medicine into the nest and feed it to the same species that can not come out to feed. Through chain reaction, we can achieve the goal of elimination. When trapping and killing, first in the kitchen, storage room and other places with serious ant problems, put a pile of poison bait every 1 meter, two grams per pile, and pay attention to moisture-proof. Three days later, check the bait being taken, pay attention to the appropriate supplement. Generally, it can kill after 10 days. When chemical methods are used, aerosol aerosol or spray should not be used indoors, so as not to cause population dispersal and aggravate ant damage. We must destroy the roots.

Chinese PinYin : Hong Ma Yi