Most species of ants live underground and also make their ant nests.
To find food they crawl from the nest upwards. Some ants choose a tree trunk for their nest. Again, other ants build the nest under a stone. This stone is heated by the sun and provides protection from the rain. Each nest consists of several rooms.
Ants are active beasts, they run from one side to the other and drag out everything. The ants that live under the ground all have an underground nest. They are therefore very busy building these nests. These are huge rooms and are all connected by corridors. Antennas are complex structures and divided into different types of rooms. A nest offers space for around 15,000 to 20,000 ants and each nest has a certain smell. Ants from other nests are therefore immediately noticed, they carry a different odor.
The ant nest is very complex and consists of several rooms. These rooms each have their own function. A nest consists of six different rooms. So there is the room for the queen. Here the eggs are laid. These eggs are then moved to the nursery room. This room travels regularly because the stall room must always be warm and humid. The found food is stored in the storage room. In a nest there is even a hospital. Remaining material is stored in the waste room. Some mites collect lice. These lice stay in the guest room.
In the ant nest, each ant has its own role.
The queen is laying eggs.
The work ants are in the weather all day. They take care of the queen, her eggs and eventually the young ants. In the nest there are also workers who are constantly looking for food for everyone and they dig the corridors and rooms in the nest.
There are even soldiers who defend the nest (the colony) against invaders. Soldiers are the female ants that are infertile.
The male fertile ants have one task, namely, to ensure the fertilization of the queen's eggs. If you see flying ants, this is the sign of fertilization. After fertilization they die.