Many kinds of ants communicate with sounds, in addition to their better-known use of chemical pheromones. Do you think ants make noises?

You bet they do!

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TJ

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Many kinds of ants communicate with sounds, in addition to their better-known use of chemical pheromones.

The most obvious ant sounds can be heard by humans who disturb a colony of the large red ants found in the American southwest. These ants stridulate, making noise by rubbing segments of their abdomens together in a manner similar to the sounds produced by crickets. Pick up a red ant (carefully, since they can bite!) and you may be able to hear its high squeaks.

Some kinds of ants that carve their nests out of dry wood knock their bodies against the wood very rapidly, making short bursts of sound. These sounds are thought to be a kind of communication, although no one knows what the ants are saying. Other kinds of ants that live in earth make sounds when they have been buried in a cave-in. Other ants, hearing these sounds, are able to dig out their buried nestmates.

Listen to the sounds of black fire ants: http://home.olemiss.edu/~hickling/

Some kinds of ants know how to swim: http://features.LearningKingdom.com/fact/archive/1999/05/26.html

I know they make a sizzling sound followed by a "puff" when you attack them with a magnifying glass.