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Hydrocarbon-Producing Insect and Fire Ants

Scarabaeid, which is an insect species, and fire ants are able to live
together, because the hydrocarbons they bear are the same. If we think
about insects being enemies of the ants, it is quite astonishing that a har-
monious relationship exists between these two living beings. Then how
can this agreement be explained?
These bugs also have the hydrocarbons that ants have and they also
have other hydrocarbon series with a high molecular weight. When in-
sects leave the nests of the ants, the compounds which they have in
common with the ants disappear, but the heavy hydrocarbons belong-
ing to them remain. Later, when they go to the colony of another fire ant
species, this time they produce the scent of this colony. 45
When the bug first arrives at the nest of the fire ants, it depends on
its own thick shell and tries to protect itself by pretending that it is dead.
In a few days, after simulating the hydrocarbon of the ants, it is fully ad-
mitted into the ant nest. 46
How can an insect of this species imitate any scent and secrete it in
its own body? How does it know that by producing this scent it will be
able to fool the ants into admitting it to their nest? Can a bug achieve all
this on its own?
Of course not. Getting to know the ants by their chemical and phys-
ical characteristics is just not something that a bug can do on its own. It
would be quite absurd to say that these bugs have gone through evolu-
tion by living with the ants for a long time and eventually developed the
ability to produce the scent of the ants chemically. No mutation or co-
incidence can lead to the development of such a complex characteristic.
The only possible conclusion is the existence of a Creator, Who has giv-
en powers of recognition and imitation to this bug. The One Who makes
it possible for ants and bugs to exist in harmony together and Who pre-
vents their acting in a hostile manner towards each other, is Allah, the
Creator of the two animal species.

Visitors of Army Ants
There are ticks that live on the bodies of army ants. These tick
species feed on the blood they get from the membrane-like area at the

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