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. 

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Dharini kathirvel
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