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    Ants are highly social insects that live in large colonies consisting of millions of ants. Colonies are organized with a single queen ant that lays eggs and various worker ants with specialized jobs like building nests, collecting food, and caring for larvae. Ants live in nests built underground, in trees, or in special ant plants. They breathe through openings on their abdomens called spiracles and have excellent eyesight and antennae that allow them to communicate and navigate using touch, smell, and vibrations.

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    Ants are highly social insects that live in large colonies consisting of millions of ants. Colonies are organized with a single queen ant that lays eggs and various worker ants with specialized jobs like building nests, collecting food, and caring for larvae. Ants live in nests built underground, in trees, or in special ant plants. They breathe through openings on their abdomens called spiracles and have excellent eyesight and antennae that allow them to communicate and navigate using touch, smell, and vibrations.

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    Ants are highly social insects that live in large colonies consisting of millions of ants. Colonies are organized with a single queen ant that lays eggs and various worker ants with specialized jobs like building nests, collecting food, and caring for larvae. Ants live in nests built underground, in trees, or in special ant plants. They breathe through openings on their abdomens called spiracles and have excellent eyesight and antennae that allow them to communicate and navigate using touch, smell, and vibrations.

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    Ants are social insects, which means they live in a group, or colony.

    Colonies live inside nests that


    can be built in trees, underground, or even inside special ant plants. Ant colonies are highly
    organized, usually ruled by a single queen, and each ant has specific jobs to do. Most ants in a colony
    are female workers.

    Ants breathe through spiracles, which are openings on their abdomens because they don’t have
    lungs.

    Ants know how to swim, and can even form rafts to get across a large body of water.

    Leafcutter ants are the strongest ants in the world.

    Ants have excellent eyesight, thanks to their compound eyes.

    Ants don’t have ears, which means that they pay attention to vibrations on the ground and use them
    as danger signals.

    All ants have two stomachs. One is to store food for themselves and the other is to save food for
    other ants.

    The most deadly ant in the world is the Australian bulldog ant.

    Male ants exist only to mate.

    How do ants live?

    These are very sociable insects. Did you know that they live in really, really big colonies which have
    literally millions of ants living in them. Imagine living with over 1 million people! That would be a bit
    much.

    Within their colony there are three different types of ants. There is the queen, who really is the boss,
    and all she does, for her entire life is lay eggs. Wow, she’s got a tough job.

    queen-ant

    The second type of ant is the male who helps the queen ant to produce these eggs. He doesn’t live
    long at all. Poor thing.

    The third type of ant is the female worker. She builds the mounds and collects food for all those
    millions of ants. That’s a lot of work to be done.

    Most ants build a type of mound that they live in, which is mostly in dirt of sand. Some of them are
    clever and use twigs to make them stronger.

    Others live in logs or trees that have fallen down.


    ant mound

    There are about 20,000 different species – or types – of ants, and they are found everywhere, all
    around the world.

    Their home is quite amazing. They have heaps of tunnels under their mound and these connect all
    the rooms or chambers, which all have a purpose.

    Some of the chambers are there to store food, while some are used as nurseries to look after the
    little baby ants.

    They are also used as resting places for those hard-working worker ants. At least they get a place to
    take a break.

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    What is the body of an ant made up of?

    The ant’s body is made up of three parts, the head, the trunk and metasoma, or the rear of the ant.

    Ants have six legs and they are all attached to the trunk.

    These tiny insects have supersonic vision. They see really well and that’s because they’ve got loads
    of lenses in their eyes. Wonder if they go and get contact lenses.

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    Ants have antennae’s and these let them hear, taste, touch and smell. Wow that’s quite something.
    They use them to touch one another and ‘talk’ to each other in ‘ant’ language.

    Did you know that ants don’t have lungs? Well how on earth do they breathe? Well, they breathe
    through tiny little holes that are all over their body.

    An ant’s blood travels through one long tube that runs from its head to its rear. There is also a nerve
    cord that runs right along next to it.

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    More interesting Ant Facts

    When ant colonies get on the move, or have found some food, they leave a scent trail that other
    ants can follow. They secrete a chemical called a pheromone.

    Can you believe this? Ants have survived on Earth for more than 100 million years. There are hardly
    any other species that have been able to adapt so well in order to survive for so long.

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