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Ants!
There are more than 12,000 species of ants ("Ants")! There are three kinds of ants in a colony. -The Queen -The female workers -The males

Queens reproduce the colony and mate with male ants. Female ants gather the food, feed and take care of the larvae, build tunnels, and defend the colony. Majority of ants are female. Males do not participate in colony activities. There only purpose is to mate with the queen. With that being said, female workers take good care of the queen and male ants. When the queen of the colony dies, the colony wont survive for much longer, because queens are rarely replaced and workers are not able to reproduce,so the colony slowly dies off. A new colony of ants is generally established by a single newly mated queen and after a certain period of time, she will lay her first eggs.

Both the queen and male ants have wings, while the female workers do not. The male ants job is to mate with the queen to produce more ants. Ants do not have ears, and the only way they can sense is by feeling the vibration on the ground through their feet. Ants also do not have lungs either. Oxygen enters through tiny holes in their body and the carbon dioxide leaves through the same holes ("Ants").

The ants body is constricted. Their hind wings are smaller than their front wings and the worker ants always have antennaes.The body of the ant is divided into three sections. The head, thorax, and abdomen ("Ant Information").



A lot of ants will get eaten by other bug species. The most common type of bug species that eat ants are: toads, lizards, assassin bugs, bats, birds, and even other ants! A lot of ants will get killed by being stepped on by humans as well. Ants will also feed on other pest and they include: fleas, caterpillars, termites, dead insects, and decomposing tissue from dead animals.

Ants are very strong for there size. It is believed that they can lift 20 times there own body weight ("Ants"), which is amazing! Most people do not realize but ants are close relatives to the bees and wasps.



There are four stages in an ants life. There is the egg, larva, pupal and adult stage. Larva are wormlike creatures and do not resemble ants at all.