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meusz asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 1 decade ago

do ants sleep?10 pts?!?

ahmm... this really is a wierd question.. but it keeps bugging me lately.. please answer.. 10 pts?!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I like your pun - question about ants...but it keeps bugging you. lol.

    Cool Facts About Ants.

    No one knows whether ants "sleep" in the way we do. They don't have eyelids, so they can't close their eyes. They do rest, but trying to monitor their brain activity at this time would interfere with it so much that the results wouldn't tell us anything. Ants do look for food only during the day. And in the winter, their breathing and metabolism slows way down.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think it depends on the species. I have White-footed Ants (Technomyrmex albipes) that come to live in my kitchen every winter and they, unlike the Argentine Ant, certainly appear to enter a dormant state very like sleep. In the morning one finds little groups of them on the countertop or, more often, under the breadboard or a plate, or in the waterjug (they have a great affinity for water) -- all still and apparently sleeping. One has to nudge them or tap sharply near them before they all come to life and run around in a bit of a panic. So yes, I would say that some ants sleep.

  • 5 years ago

    you do no longer desire spray, any form of air purifier will stun them right this moment. have been given Mr sparkling? lysol? srpay them and that they'll supply up, then wipe them up. then thouroughly sparkling the section! had this ensue to me previously too after: ensure you plug the hollow they are entering into and in the event that they proceed to purpose to get in you will need adequate time aftre the good cleanning to purchase raid and positioned drops of it the place they are coming in. some human beings say in the event that they are tiny ants draw a chalk line. they hate crossing chalk. yet like I say, the cleansing spray will supply up them of their tracks. a minimum of those that are there at the instant.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, every animal sleeps in some way.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i would think so cause they are living and every living thing that has a heart sleeps.

  • 1 decade ago

    They do

    Source(s): google images: Sleeping ant
  • 1 decade ago

    No, but they do rest =D

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