Most Interesting Facts About Ants

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 Most Interesting Facts About Ants

Name:  Ants



  • Black garden ants
  • Pharaoh ants

Scientific Name:  Formicidae.

LifeSpan: 

  • Black garden ants lifespan: 4 Years
  • Pharaoh ants lifespan: 4 to 12 Months

Length:

            0.64 to 2.5 cm.

Types Of Ants:

  1. Acrobat Ant
  2. Argentime Ant
  3. Carpenter Ant
  4. Crazy Ant
  5. Field Ant
  6. Ghost Ant
  7. Harvester Ant
  8. Leafcutting Ant
  9. Little Black Ant
  10. Odorous House Ant
  11. Pavement Ant
  12. Pharaoh Ant
  13. Pyramid Ant
  14. Red Imported Fire Ant
  15. Thief Ant
  16. White-footed Ant
  17. Yellow Ant 



More About Ants:

  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. Some queen ants can live for many years and have millions of babies! 
  4. Ants don't have ears. Ants "hear" by feeling vibrations in the ground through their 
  5. When ants fight, it is usually to the death! 
  6.  When foraging, ants leave a pheromone trail so that they know where they've been, 
  7. Queen ants have wings, which they shed when they start a new nest. 
  8. Ants don't have lungs. Oxygen enters through tiny holes all over the body and carbon dioxide leaves through the same holes. 
  9. When the queen of the colony dies, the colony can only survive a few months. Queens are rarely replaced and the workers are not able to repro- duce.

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