Title: Antique Copper & Bronze Hymenoptera Ant Insect Sculpture
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Period: Contemporary
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Condition: Excellent
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Item ID: 6769
Antique Designed Red Copper And Bronze. Carved Ant Bug Contemporary Figure. The detail is beautiful within this wonderful Insect sculpture. Size: (2.1X2.1X1.0)inch Weight: 33g made in China. Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the Cretaceous period, about 140 million years ago, and diversified after the rise of flowering plants.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
Ants form colonies that range in size from a few dozen predatory individuals living in small natural cavities to highly organised colonies that may occupy large territories and consist of millions of individuals. Larger colonies consist of various castes of sterile, wingless females, most of which are workers (ergates), as well as soldiers (dinergates) and other specialised groups. Nearly all ant colonies also have some fertile males called "drones" (aner) and one or more fertile females called "queens" (gynes). The colonies are described as superorganisms because the ants appear to operate as a unified entity, collectively working together to support the colony.
