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1. 3 different body parts of an insect are:
The thorax Abdomen

Antennae

2. The kind of ant pictured in the Trek Nature page is a weaver ant. Those ants form the most elaborate communicative organization in the insect world.

3. There are 12,400 known species of ants in the world today and they have a wide variety of lifestyles.

4. The three main jobs of worker ants are to: Gather most of the food, Help raise the young, and defend the colony.
5. The ways that ants use their jaws are to: Bite things and to carry them.

6. Approximately 5000,000 fire ants live in one colony, not including the multiple queens.

7. An ant’s jaw is different from people’s jaws because ours help us do many things and theirs are used to bite into things and carry them.
The ant is a small creature. It is quite insignificant. It has six feet, two stings and a head. Its body is divided into three parts. Each part is connected with the other by a slender line. It has strong jaws.

Where Found:

Ants are found in almost all parts of the world. They live in houses, farmyard and cornfields. They build mounds for their protection. Ants vary in color. Some are black and some are white.

Their kinds :

There are many kinds of ants. Some are very small in size. Others are big. There are red, black, yellow and white ants. The small red ants are commonly found. They have sharp stings. When they bite, a kind of burning sensation is produced. the big sized black ants also give much trouble. They cause pain by their biting. Bt the other ants are quite innocent. The small blacks ants walk on our bodies. They do not bite us. The light yellow ants live on braches of trees. They are rather bigger in size. The while ants have no strings. But they destroy our books, furniture's and cloths.

Food :

Ant lives on worms, flour, sweets and those things which a man eats. It has an active sense of smell. It smells a dead insect from a distance. It sends words

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