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Do ants sleep?
Ants do sleep, and some of them even appear to dream.Queen fire ants fall into relatively long, deep sleeps and for an average of nine hours every day.
By contrast, workers sleep just half as much and get to rest by taking hundreds of short power naps. Worker ants typically only live for months.
It also ensures that enough worker ants are awake at any one time to protect and serve the colony. On average, a single worker ant would take 250 naps each day, with each one lasting just over a minute. That equates to 4 hours and 48 minutes of sleep a day.
That also meant that 80 per cent of the workforce was awake and active at any one time.

"The large number and short naps by workers means that jobs in the nest never go unattended''.


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