Actually, many kinds of ants can’t walk upside down. It’s mostly the tree-dwelling ants who can.
Ants that live on trees tend to be excellent climbers. They have tiny, hooked claws at the ends of their feet which help them walk on the undersides of leaves and limbs. Much like a human rock climber uses a hook, ants use their claws to cling to jagged features of the surface.
What looks like a smooth surface to a human might be a craggy surface full of toeholds to an ant. But even ants would have a tough time walking upside down on a truly smooth surface.
Say you buried a glass jar in the ground with the lip flush with the ground’s surface. Ants would collect at the bottom, since they’d be unable to scale the walls.
Other common insects like cockroaches have no trouble walking upside down on truly smooth surfaces. Like ants, and most other insects, cockroaches have tiny claws at the ends of their feet. They also have special, sticky pads between their claws that can form a tight seal with a smooth surface. That’s why you don’t have to worry about cockroaches dropping down from the ceiling!
Taylor C./ vikings
This artical was about ants walking upside down. It also told about other animals, such as cockroaches can walk upside down to. It said that they have have little hooked claws on the end of their feet. also their are many kinds of ants that cant walk upside down. so then you wont have to worry about roaches falling off of the ceiling.
How do ants walk on ceiling?
If you watch, “Ants: Nature’s Secret Power’, one species of ant in the laboratory is shown upside down on a glass plate, and is slowly given a half-gram weight to carry in its jaws, This weighs 500 times the ant’s own weight. This ability to hang-upside down has nothing to do with hooks, but with a liquid that forms an interface between the glass surface and the feet of the ant. How the ant controls this I have no idea, the program does not explain unfortunately.
hi is is really true? regarding about Davey comment, it was a weaver ant (leaving on tree)..how about house ant? can they climb upside wall on glass?