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Joey wants to tell you about ants! Have you ever sat and just watched ants? Joey and Jinger love to watch the ants carrying food and other stuff back to their colony. Ants live and work together as a team in their colonies. Ants are very cool and fascinating insects. There are over 12,000 different species of ants that live all around the world.
What ants live in your state?
Facts about ants:
1. Here is a list of some of the different types of ants in
alphabetical order:
Argentine ant
Black garden ant
Black house ant
Bullet ant
Carebara diversa
ant
Carpenter ant
Electric ant
Longhorn crazy
ant
Meat ant
Red harvester
ant
Red wood ant
Southern fire
ant
Tapinoma ant
Yellow meadow
ant
2. The queen ant is the leader and founder of the colony. Her
role in the ant colony is to lay as many eggs as she can to populate her
colony. All the worker ants are females and they are responsible for different
tasks inside the ant colony. Some of the tasks the worker ants are responsible
for are caring for the baby ants, getting food, and taking care of the queen
ants. Drone ants are males and die shortly after mating with the queen ants.
3. Ants are very strong! Ants can carry up to 20 times their
body weight or more depending on the species of ant.
4. Did you know that ants have two stomachs? One stomach is
for their food needs and the other stomach is for feeding other ants like the
queen ant. The queen is like royalty and she must be taken care of!
5. Some ants can live up to 30 years depending on the type
of ant. A Lasius niger queen ant has the
longest recorded life span of any insect. She lived almost 29 years in
captivity.
6. The Dinoponera is one of the largest ants in the world. They
can grow one (1) to three (3) inches long. The Carebara munuta is one of the
smallest ants in the world. They can grow to around 1 millimeter (mm) long.
That is very tiny!
7. There are many rooms and passages in an ant colony. Some
of the rooms are used for nurseries, the queen ant, food storage and rooms for
the worker ants.
8. Did you know that ants do not have ears? They are capable
of hearing by being able to sense vibrations.
Share a fact about ants with us?
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Books about ants:
1. Ants for Kids: by Beverly Gerdeman PhD
2. The Life and Times of the Ant by Charles Micucci
3. Anthill (Happy Fox Books) by Petra Bartikova
4. 1,001 Ants by Joanna Rzezak
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reading them to your child/children.
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