How do ants recognize the road, and how do ants use to recognize the road?

There are 3 ways for ants to recognize the way, namely: 1. The ant's vision is very keen, not only the scenery on land will be used by the ants to recognize the way, but also the position of the sun and the sunlight shining down from the blue sky can be used by the ants to identify the direction of returning to the nest. 2. In addition, in addition to relying on their eyes, ants can also recognize their way based on their smell.

Some ants leave a scent on the ground they crawl on, and as long as they follow it when they return, they will not go astray. 3. Although some ants will not leave any special smell on the road they have climbed, they can remember the smell of natural gas on the road to and from them, so they will not get lost.

Antenna. Use your fingers to rub the ant vigorously several times on its way home to destroy its original chemical odor signpost, or put a sanitary ball and let the scent of the sanitary ball cover the smell of the marker substance. At this point, you will see a lot of ants crawling to this place, and then they will stop moving forward and make a mess on the spot.

Because they can't smell the original smell for a while, they are temporarily lost. If you continue to observe, you will notice that after a short time, they touch each other with their antennae, as if they are talking to each other: "The road sign ahead has been destroyed, we need to find a way to do it quickly".

They stop and go, going around in circles. Eventually, they will try to bypass the odor line and re-establish a new route back to the nest.

The abdomen of the ant can secrete a substance, called tracking hormone, usually when the ant out of the hole, it is generally in a very orderly column to advance, the ant in front secretes this tracking hormone with a symbolic smell, and it is emitted on the road while walking, leaving traces, and the ants walking behind smell this smell, they can follow closely, even if there are individual ants temporarily left behind, they can also move forward along the same road and will not get lost. The smell of this tracker became a signpost for them. When you come back, you still follow this sign to return to the cave.

If we pay close attention to the ant's crawling posture, we can see that the end of the ant's abdomen is intermittently touching the ground.

It turns out that the abdomen of ants can secrete a substance, this substance is called tracking hormone, usually when the ants come out of the hole, they are generally lined up in a column in an orderly manner, and the ants in front secrete a tracking hormone with a symbolic smell, which is emitted on the road while walking, leaving traces, and the ants walking behind smell this smell, they can follow closely, even if there are individual ants temporarily left behind, they can also move along the same road without getting lost.

The smell of this tracker became a signpost for them.

When you come back, you still follow the signs to return to the cave.

Ants generally recognize their way based on their eyes and the marks left on the road they have walked.

Ants have a very keen eyesight, not only the scenery on land will be used by ants to identify the way, but also the position of the sun and the sunlight shining from the blue sky can be used by ants to identify the direction of returning to the nest. In addition, in addition to relying on their eyes, ants can also recognize their way based on smells. Some ants leave a scent on the ground they crawl on, and as long as they follow it when they return, they will not go astray.

There are also ants who do not leave any special smell on the road they crawl on, but they can memorize the smell of natural gas on the road to and from and find a home.

An ant (ant) is an insect. It belongs to the phylum Arthropoda, Insecta, Hymenoptera, and Antidae. There are many species of ants, there are more than 11,700 species known in the world, there are 21 subfamilies and 283 genera, and there are more than 600 species of ants that have been identified in China.

New species of ants that reproduce asexually have also recently been discovered. Ants live for a long time, from a few weeks to 3-10 years, and a queen for more than a decade or decades, or even more than 100 years. An ant nest can grow from 1 to 10 years in one place.

Ants recognize their way by the smell of their secretions.

Since they usually live in a nest, this way of communication is better developed than other hymenopteran insects, if an ant finds food, it will leave a smell on the way home, and other ants will follow this route to find food, and constantly strengthen the smell.

If the food is collected and there are no ants on the road, the smell will gradually dissipate.