Most army ants live in tropic areas including Asia, Africa and America. They were described as that they can eat everything along the way they went by which include plants, crops and animals such as horses, mouse, insects even elephants. Some people thought they can be as big as a fox and able to dig into depth to find the food. Other people thought they could survive in the desert where is short of food and they feed on gold. They were regarded as an evil creatures.
But the fact is, they are one or two centimeters long at the most. They do not live in a place for a long time, usually for only two or three weeks. Then they move to another place for more food source. During the moving, ants get together to form a big lobe containing queen ant and larvae inside on the tree. The total mass can reach 1 kg so that might be the reason why people thought they can be as big as a fox. Ants cannot feed on gold or other kinds of mental, even though they are army ants. The season they were thought eating gold is that ants dig very deep to make their nest. Sometimes they make some sand containing gold out of their nest around the entrance of their nest. People misunderstood them that they were eating gold.
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