John Longino, a myrmecologist from the University of Utah, told us: They make nests in trees and are very aggressive to a range of interlopers, including other ants, as well as weaver ants from other colonies. Attack across species lines is common among ants. The ants depicted here are two different species of Camponotus or similar. "Red ants" and "black ants?" Really? There are 14,000 species of ants in the world, not just red and black. Whoever posted this knows absolutely nothing about ants. Walter Tschinkel, an ecology and evolution professor at Florida State University, told Lead Stories that ants don't necessarily need an outside force like a shaking to go at each other. If the author of the post was trying to make a metaphorical statement about human behavior by relating it to that of ants, they might have been better to choose a different animal for the illustration. (Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Thu Oct 7 14:36:41 2021 UTC) This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing: Before we fight with each other, we must ask ourselves: who shook the jar? Red will believe black is their enemy while black will believe red is their enemy when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. The post read: If you put 100 black ants & 100 red ants in a jar, nothing will happen.But if you shake the jar,the ants will start killing each other. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) where it was published on September 24, 2021. Two professors knowledgeable about ants told us that no shaking is necessary to start a fight between two different species of ants. There is no set rule as to when ants will fight versus not fight. Metaphor MissĪre red ants and black ants peaceful if placed in the same enclosure, but start fighting when an outside force shakes them? No, that's not true: There are thousands of species of red ants and black ants, not just one per color.
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