The Weird World of Ants

-Ant workers are all sterile females
-Few males hatch from a unfertilized egg with the one purpose of mating with a queen ant to star a new colony
-There was a ant colony about 3750 miles wide
-There is over 12000 species of ants currently known
-The ant is the strongest known creature in relation to its size
-The maricopa harvester ant is the most venomous insect in the world with a sting equivalent of twelve honey bees
-Ants are estimated to move a astounding fifty tons of soil in per year in one square mile
-Fire ants cause about five billion dollars worth of damage in North America per year
-Some species of soldier ants use stand on the other inside the entrance and block the hole with their head and when a worker ant from the colony returns they touch the soldier ants head to show they are part of the same colony
-For every one human there is about one point five million ants
- The total biomass of all the ants in the world roughly equals the total biomass of all humans on earth
     The world of ants is very diverse and complicated. There is more to ants than most think like how they farm or fight and build. Ants are part of our world and they are a very interesting part that is good to know more about.
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