Thus, worker ants’ sleep amounts to around 4 hours of sleep everyday while 92 6-minute sleep episodes of the queen ants amounts to approximately 9 hours of sleep each day. Queen ants have 6-minute long sleep episodes, and 92 such, in a day. The article states that fire ants, for sure, sleep, and that worker ants have 253 minute-long episodes of sleep per day. Cassill, Skye Brown, Devon Swick and George Yanev in the July 2009 edition of the Journal of Insect Behaviour, the duration for which ants sleep varies with the type of the ant. According to the article, Polyphasic Wake/Sleep Episodes in the Fire Ant, Solenopsis Invicta by Deby L.
