Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities. More than 10,000 known ant species occur around the world. They are especially prevalent in tropical forests, where they may be up to half of all the insects living in some locations.
They are social insects, which means they live in large colonies or groups. Depending on the species, ant colonies can consist of millions of ants.
Unlike other pests such as rats, ants don’t have ears. But that doesn’t mean they are deaf.
Ants use vibrations to hear, using them when foraging for food or as an alarm signal. Ants use the vibrations in the ground to hear by picking them up in the subgenual organ which is located below the knee.
