1.There are more than 12,000 species of ants all over the world.
2.An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a second grader was as strong as an ant, she would be able to pick up a car!
3.When ants fight, it is usually to the death!
4.The queen and the males have wings, while the workers don’t have wings.
5.Ant colonies also have soldier ants that protect the queen, defend the colony, gather or kill food, and attack enemy colonies in search for food and nesting space. If they defeat another ant colony, they take away eggs of the defeated ant colony. When the eggs hatch, the new ants become the "slave" ants for the colony.
2.An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a second grader was as strong as an ant, she would be able to pick up a car!
3.When ants fight, it is usually to the death!
4.The queen and the males have wings, while the workers don’t have wings.
5.Ant colonies also have soldier ants that protect the queen, defend the colony, gather or kill food, and attack enemy colonies in search for food and nesting space. If they defeat another ant colony, they take away eggs of the defeated ant colony. When the eggs hatch, the new ants become the "slave" ants for the colony.
6.Wood ant workers live seven to ten years.
7.Soldier ants use their heads to plug the entrances to their nests and keep intruders from gaining access.
8.Ants started farming long before humans.
9.Some ants form "supercolonies," massive communities of ants that can stretch for thousands of miles.
7.The queen licks the eggs to make them hatch.
