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The queen looks after her first brood, and, once grown, that first brood of adult workers takes care of subsequent broods. It takes three to six years to establish a large and stable colony. The life cycle of a carpenter ant is estimated to be 6 to 12 weeks from egg to adult. Cold weather can stretch the development time of carpenter ants up to 10 months. The only role of the carpenter ant queen is to lay eggs, but as soon as worker carpenter ants mature into adults, they take on the responsibilities of the colony. They forage for food, tend to the eggs, larvae and pupae, and excavate galleries to broaden and propagate their nest.
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Queen ants can live for several years. Workers may live for a year but many only live for a few months. Males die as soon as they mate, so they only live for a few weeks. Sometimes a nest has several queens, and they can keep a large colony going for many years.
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How long do they live? Ants live for about two months, but in good conditions a nest can last for years. Garden ants mate in flight when winged males and females swarm between mid July and mid September. After mating the male dies and the female loses her wings and buries herself in the soil over winter.
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All worker ants are female and live for a month. Typically, colonies have about 5,000 worker ants but can have as many as 15,000. Each colony has one queen, which has been known to live for up to 29 years (source). Worker ants, on the other hand, live up to two months on average. Did you know that if a Garden Ant queen lived for 29 years, that equates to over 10,000 egg-laying days!
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Male ants dont live long but female ants can live for 3 years the longest living queen ant has lived for 60 years.
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The life cycle of carpenter ants begins with the nuptial flight, which usually occurs in the late spring or early summer, depending on environmental factors. During this mating flight, male winged carpenter ants, or swarmers, mate with winged females. Soon after mating, the females shed their wings and the males die.
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Ants have always been around since the beginning of time. Some properties are plagued with ants year after year, after year, which is why some people may often wonder how long do these little creatures live.
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From Wikipedia: Ant colonies can be long-lived. The queens can live for up to 30 years, and workers live from 1 to 3 years. Males, however, are more transitory, being quite short-lived and surviving for only a few weeks. Robert · 1 year ago.
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We learned that ants can live in colonies that have millions of ants. They also can carry things twice their weight. There are three types of ants the queen, the males, and the workers. Some ant colonies can engulf a whole acre. We wonder how big ants can get and if the size of the ant effects the size of the bite.
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how long does ant live?
An ant lives for two months, but in good conditions a nest can last for years. The ant live does Two months. Ants live for two months, but in good conditions a nest can last for years.