Queen ants sleep for 9 hours a day while worker ants get half as much sleep and are forced to take power naps.
Queen fire ants fall into relatively long, deep sleeps for an average of nine hours every day.
Workers sleep just half as much and get to rest by taking hundreds of short power naps.
This division of rest may help explain why queens live for years, while worker ants typically only live for months.
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.
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