INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANTS: Ants are clean and tidy ants. The ant has two eyes.They are called compound eyes. The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants. Biologists classify ants as a special group of wasps. There are over 10000 known species of ants. Each ant colony has at least one or more queens. The job of queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look after. Worker ants are sterile, they look for food, look after the young, and defend the nest from unwanted visitors. The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days. Ants can lift 25 times their own body weight. Its brain has 250000 brain cells. Adult ant cannot chew and swallow solid food. Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. They use antenae for their sense of smell.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANTS:
ReplyDeleteAnts are clean and tidy ants.
The ant has two eyes.They are called compound eyes.
The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs.
One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants.
Biologists classify ants as a special group of wasps.
There are over 10000 known species of ants.
Each ant colony has at least one or more queens.
The job of queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look after.
Worker ants are sterile, they look for food, look after the young, and defend the nest from unwanted visitors.
The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.
Ants can lift 25 times their own body weight.
Its brain has 250000 brain cells.
Adult ant cannot chew and swallow solid food.
Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food.
They use antenae for their sense of smell.