Alexis is a Greek name meaning defender or helper.. It is derived from the Greek word 'alexo,' meaning to defend or to help.. Although technically a separate name, Alexis is often used alongside Alexios, which is one of its derivatives.
So an colony of 50 ants will only eat about 1 gram of food per day (50 ants x 2 miligrams each), and they will harvest about 37 grams or 1.3 ounces of food and material each day.
Even though it is nearly extinct the panda ant lays around 2000 eggs a year. Unluckily for the panda ants there natural prey, ant eaters, eat most of the young panda ants after they hatch. If they do survive they can live to the ripe old age of 2 years, this is quite old for an insect. The females and males have the same patterns unlike other species of creatures.