Carpenter Ant- A guide for Humanity.

There are many varieties of Ants.The most aggressive and dangerous ants are red fire ants. Black ants otherwise known as carpenter Ants are less aggressive but most defensive .If hurt it would bite or rather sting.The pain and consequent inconvenience might last many hours.

TheBlack ants( Katturumbu)is also known as Carpenter Ants.Many varieties exist in this category.They are not as aggressive as the red Ants.They do not hurt unless they are prompted by hurting it.Carpenter ants prefer to establish their colonies in galleries excavated from damp or damaged wood.

The carpenter ants prefer to establish their colonies in Galleries excavated from damp or damaged wood.They cut galleries Into wood grains to form their nests and provide passage ways for their Movements from section to section of their nests.This activity produces wood shavings mixed with dead ants which provides clues to nesting locations. Carpenter ants clean their nesting sites and their galleries are not lined with mud Or moist soil.The workers ants keep their galleries as clean as sand papered wood. In usual and natural environments dwell both dead and living trees,stumps and rotting logs.However sometimes they build nests in human houses and buildings also where wood is found especially where wood is in extremely exposed to severe moisture.this is an indication how much intelligent are these tiny insects. The carpenter ants build two types of nests .they are known as Parents Colonies and satellite colonies.the later is a dependent colony of Parents colony.the Parents Colony has a Queen ,her incumbents and workers.there may be several colonies in an area.The Satellite colonies consists of older Larvae and pupae. Workers create different satellite colonies when there is lack of space or of food and water in a Parent colony.This indicates how clever, Hard working they are,.Besides,their unity and willingness to work as one unit is to be highly appreciated. This is how there are several satellite colony under a Parent colony in an area.this shows how systematic and organized the Ants are.The eggs Carpenter ants do not eat wood as termites do.Instead remove woodcand deposit debris iin small piles outside their nests.thus the life Span of Ants is spent in building nests and finding food from the Left over of people especially sweets and meats.they aso feed on small insects.Thus they would appear to be friendly neighbors of people. The main function of queens is to lay eggs.in the first year a queen lays 9 to 16 eggs.the life Span of queens is about 25 years.The eggs complete their Life cycle in about 6 to 12 weeks. Thus the life of Ants is so amazing thehuman beings have so many lessons to learn from them. The first and Lesson to learn from Ants is the hard working nature .They do their work systematically and move on happily.if one observes the long line of Ants it could be seen that outgoing ants allow incoming Ants way and space to move along. There is no fight or difference of opinion in this regard among them. Even among human beings who are considered to be the best creations ,there are reasons for fight,hatred,intrigue,jealousy and intolerance where as among antsthere is no such behavior can be observed. People have tendency to devide among them into different groups.But Ants have one parent group and several satellite groups.There is no fight among them. So to conclude people should learn from Ants to live peacefully and in total Harmony. Sreedharan Mundanat 9th of February 2018