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Male ants do not live very long--generally about a few weeks. Queen ants can live many years. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years. A queen of the Carpenter species, very common in America, can live up to 25 years, for example. Her workers can live up to seven years . Lifespans of ants vary from species to species, but male ants never live very long. Male ants die as soon as they mate giving them an average lifespan of a few weeks.
There are approximately12,400 known species of ants in the world today and they have a wide variety of lifestyles. Ant queens are estimated to live 100 times longer than solitary insects of a similar size. Ants are known to be the smartest species of insects with about 250,000 brain cells.
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