Alexis is a Greek name meaning defender or helper.. It is derived from the Greek word 'alexo,' meaning to defend or to help.. Although technically a separate name, Alexis is often used alongside Alexios, which is one of its derivatives.
So an colony of 50 ants will only eat about 1 gram of food per day (50 ants x 2 miligrams each), and they will harvest about 37 grams or 1.3 ounces of food and material each day.
These ants really are quite abundant in their native habitat. They arenât just more noticeable because they are big. This single ant species â and there are a LOT of ants in a rain forest, let me tell you â had a similar biomass as the rodents in the area, 2.5 kg/ha (over 5 lbs of ants). Two lines of evidence (direct observation and stable isotopes) found these giant ants are predators of both herbivores and other predators.