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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Amazing Facts About Ants

Amazing Facts About Ants

Ants, the hard working, laborious, intelligent and disciplined animals are known as social insects. They live together, more briskly in endless rows like trained and expert soldiers.

Surprising facts associated with ants are followings: -
(1.) Ants live in colonies in hill of the earth or sand which is called anthills.

(2.) About 14,000 kinds of ants of different sizes are found.

(3.)Ants may be as small as 0.2 cm or as long as 5 cm.

(4.) Color of them can be yellow, brown, black or red.

(5.) They have a pair of antennae to smell or guide others on endless march.

(6.) Antennae also helps ants to communicate.

(7.) Only queen ants lay eggs during their whole life span.

(8.) Male ants live for a few months but female ants can live for as long as 15 years.

(9.) Aphid, The ant cow gives a kind of sweet drink which is called honey dew.

(10.) To climb down or up they form an-chain to reach the destination.