Fantastic Ant Facts

 

 

There are one million trillion insects alive at any moment, one percent of these are ants.

 

There are ten thousand trillion live ants at any moment.

 

All the ants in the world weigh more than all the humans in the world. Ants are the most numerous type of animal.

 

There are thirty-five thousand kinds of ants in the world.

 

There are sixty different kinds of ants in North America.

 

Ant brains are largest amongst insects.

 

Strong in relation to their size, ants can carry 10 to 20 times their body weight. They work in teams to move extremely heavy things.

 

The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.

 

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.

 

The queen ant lays all the eggs in the anthill.

 

Wood ants squirt acid from the end of their abdomens.

 

Wood ant workers live seven to ten years.

 

Wood ants make anthills out of twigs, leaves and soil.

 

The queen ant lives up to ten or twenty years.

 

The wood ant can threaten the enemy with open jaws.

 

The male ant has wings for a short while

 

The queen ant has wings.

 

The army ant bites and stings any bug that comes toward it.

 

The army ant can even bite a huge snake.

 

Some ants sleep seven hours a day.

 

The queen licks the eggs to make them hatch.

 

The queen feeds her eggs her own saliva.