Show ANTS ARE Duluth Dulu th Ants are really very long lived con considering considering their minuteness A natural naturalist had two queens under observation for ten years and one of Sir John Lub bocks ant pets lived into her fifteenth year Ants are very vO tenacious of life after severe Injury i Following loss of the entire abdomen abdo n they sometimes live two weeks and in one case a headless ant carefully decapitated by aseptic surgery surge lived days A car carpenter carpenter carpenter penter ant after being submerged eight days In distilled water came to life upon being dried so 50 that they are practically proof against drowning They can live long periods without food In one case the fast lasted nearly nine months |