The leg muscles of ants are very developed, and we can compare it to an efficient micro-muscle engine, which consists of billions of parts of small muscle engines, so ants can have such powerful and amazing power. The muscle engine of ants needs a compound called adenosine triphosphate as fuel.
It is an acidic substance produced by a large number of muscle activities in the body. We usually feel sore all over because of the drastic changes of adenosine triphosphate in our body. Because of this change, the long molecules of muscle protein will suddenly contract, thus producing extraordinary strength.
This special acidic substance can directly release energy and convert it into mechanical energy without combustion, and because there is no mechanical friction, there is no energy loss and waste at all, making the efficiency of the ant muscle engine reach above 80%.
When ants carry objects, their leg muscles will produce adenosine triphosphate, which will lead to great changes in this acidic substance, leading to instantaneous contraction of muscles, thus affecting billions of small muscle motors to generate power, so ants can lift heavy objects hundreds of times heavier than themselves.
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Ant reproduction mode
It takes ants about 15 days (some large ants need more than 20 days) from egg to adult, and they go through two stages: larva and pupa. The egg is white or yellowish, slender, 0.5 mm in size and shaped like a grain of rice. Young ants are milky white, with thin front ends, often curved, and are easily mistaken for "ant eggs".
The pupa is the last age, and the young ants become shorter and can't eat or move, which is called the pre-pupa, and the pre-pupa is the pupa after molting. Pupa is milky white at first, and then gradually turns yellow-brown. Often stacked together, it is also mistaken for "ant eggs."
Ants are completely metamorphosed insects, and can only develop into adults after the stages of eggs, larvae and pupae (or cocoons, depending on the specific species). Ants are powerless in the larval stage and do not need to eat. They are completely fed by worker ants, who have to eat the food first and then spit it out to feed the young ants, so adult ants exchange food.
Larvae development needs a certain temperature, so worker ants often move them around to maintain a suitable development site. Ants are generally divided into worker ants, male ants and female ants according to different tasks. What kind of ants the larvae develop into depends entirely on the feeding conditions in the larval stage.
Generally, ants are female, but they are not responsible for fertility, only the queen ants give birth. A group of male and female ants are also cultivated in an ant nest. They don't work, they just eat and grow. They all have wings. When they mature, they fly out of the nest to mate together. After mating, the male ants die soon, and the female ants find a suitable place to nest, take off their wings, become queens, and lay eggs and develop into new nests.
The life span of ants is relatively long, the life span of a single ant is surprisingly long, and the life span of queen ants can be as long as 20 years. But a wandering ant can only live for a few days This is due to the clear division of labor within the ant colony and the interdependent group structure. This is the basic factor of its prosperity.
The reproductive process of ants is generally divided into three parts: mating, spawning and flying. When a nest of ants reaches a certain number, the queen will breed male and female breeding ants in advance. When the time is ripe, the breeding ants will fly out of the nest to mate and start breeding offspring and become new families. Ants are completely abnormal insects. Complete metamorphosis is a process from egg to adult through larval stage and pupal stage.
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