Wasp - VAMPIRE - ANT

Wasp - VAMPIRE - ANT

The theory of evolution formic
A colony of ants, "Dracula" was found in Madagascar. But
first strange ants bloodsucking noticed on the African island
in 1933, but then it was only a few hundred individuals.
Now the curious explorers stuck his nose into lying on the
ground hollow tree trunk, and - where they found a whole huge
colony "Dracula."
The name of these insects were due to the cannibalistic fashion
Food: adult ants stings (to a tee aspens!) pierce
holes in the larvae and suck the blood of their own offspring. Good
of this goodness - that is the offspring - they have bulk: Ants roaches
no worse than rabbits! No wonder the ants - the most widespread and most
abundant species of insects on Earth (although the amount
only 1% of all known species of insects). By the way, the usual
ants are not too far away from their relatives-cannibals. During
evolution, they only "ennobled" this way of feeding: they do not drink
the blood of the larvae, but they fed solid food, which can not be
digest themselves, and then suck it, already digested, back.
With regard to the appearance of ants "Dracula", even then they are like
OS: they have only one connection between the thorax and
abdomen (wasp waist!), whereas in normal ants, two or three.

Aleksandr Levchuk