<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAnts build mounds to create a thermostat that maintains the humidity and temperature of their underground nest. This allows them to keep conditions favorable for the growth and development of brood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They also use these mounds for defense against predators and other intruders. As the entrance to the nest, these mounds serve as gates that prevent unwanted access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most of us were probably taught that ants live in ant hills or mounds when we were kids. Yet aside from this basic association, many don\u2019t exactly know what these mounds are and why ants build them. Boring as these piles of soil may seem, these mounds actually hold an interesting story behind their existence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scifaqs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}