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Ants are among the most numerous animals on
the planet.
10% of the earth’s
Animal biomass
12,000 known species
Amazing Ants
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
They are related to bees and wasps
• Ants are social insects. They live in large nests
with a queen.
• Most of the ants you see are female.
• Ants can lift 5 times their own weight
(Elephants can only lift 1/5 their own weight)
• A colony of ants can eat a cookie in less than
half an hour.
Cool Ant Facts
Ants can be identified by their anatomy
Look at the Petiole
One Node versusTwo
Who ate my cookie?
Ant with a bar code
We will be sending our ants to Dr.
Lucky’s lab.
Next time: We will check the map

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Meet the ants

  • 1.
  • 2. Ants are among the most numerous animals on the planet. 10% of the earth’s Animal biomass 12,000 known species Amazing Ants
  • 3. Order: Hymenoptera Family: Formicidae They are related to bees and wasps
  • 4. • Ants are social insects. They live in large nests with a queen. • Most of the ants you see are female. • Ants can lift 5 times their own weight (Elephants can only lift 1/5 their own weight) • A colony of ants can eat a cookie in less than half an hour. Cool Ant Facts
  • 5. Ants can be identified by their anatomy
  • 6. Look at the Petiole One Node versusTwo
  • 7. Who ate my cookie?
  • 8. Ant with a bar code
  • 9. We will be sending our ants to Dr. Lucky’s lab.
  • 10. Next time: We will check the map

Editor's Notes

  1. The main thing that separates ants, bees and wasps from other insects is their “wasp waist”—Part of their abdomen is very thin and flexible (The Petiole)
  2. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/ANTKEY/countnodes.html
  3. Scientists have done experiments with ants to see what they do during the course of their lives. (University of Lauserne, Switzerland)The ants that nursed the queen and the young tended to be young, slightly older ants were responsible for cleaning the colony and the third group of ants, usually the oldest, foraged for food outside the colony.  The average lifespan of an ant is one year.This is a Carpenter AntRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2311688/ANTS-change-job-grow-older-scientists-discover.html#ixzz2VB75o2qx Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook