Spiders & Insects

Ants

Written by Sarah J. Keller

Copyright 2001 Isaveatree.com

ISBN 0-9714299-0-1 (50 Book Set)

Table Of Contents

What are ants…………………………..4

Insect body parts………………………..6

How ants live…………………………...12

What ants eat…………………………..16

Glossary………………………………..24

Index…………………………………....25

Books to read and web sites to visit…..26

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Ants are insects. Ants dig tunnels in the ground or in wood. Most ants have no wings. More ants live on our earth than any other kind of insect.

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All insect bodies have three parts. The head has jaws for eating, eyes for seeing, and antennae for hearing and smelling.

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Insects have six legs attached to their thorax. Food passes through the thorax on the way to the ant’s abdomen.

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Inside the abdomen are the stomach and the crop stomach. Ants can store food in the crop and feed other ants from it.

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Ants live in large groups or colonies. Every ant in the colony has a job. The queen ant lays eggs. She rules the whole colony. The eggs are carried to the nursery by the worker ants.

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Worker ants also care for the larvae that hatch from the eggs. The larvae spin cocoons and change into ants. Workers help the young ants from the cocoons.

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Ants eat plants and other insects. When ants find another insect, they bite it and spray it. Then they cut it up and carry it back to the colony for the other ants to eat.

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An ant can pass food from its crop stomach to another ant. Some ants store food in their crop and hang upside down. Then other ants come to eat the food.

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Ants also pass on messages from the queen ant that tells them what job to do. Worker ants get messages from the queen by licking her.

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Ants live in groups just like people. They help each other with food and houses. They defend each other from enemies. Ants are a lot like us.

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Index

abdomen, 8 antenna, 6 cocoons, 14 colonies, 12 crop stomach, 10

jaws, 6 insects, 4 larvae, 14 nursery, 12 queen ant, 12 stomach, 10 thorax, 8 tunnels, 4 worker ants, 14

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Glossary

abdomen – stomach of an animal antennae – a pair of long thin feelers on the head of some animals cocoon – a cover of silky strands that protects an insect until it grows into an adult colony – a group of the same kind of animals living together insect- a small animal with six legs and three body parts and maybe wings larva- the insect that hatches from the egg and then spins a cocoon nursery – where the baby animals live and are cared for thorax – the middle part of the insect body

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More Great Books To Read Title: Ants Author: Ruth Berman Publisher: Lerner Publications Copyright: 1996 Title: The Magic School Bus gets Ants in the Pants Author: Linda Beech Publisher: Scholastic Copyright: 1996 Title: Ants Author: Barrie Watts Publisher: F. Watts Copyright: 1990

Websites Link 1 Link 2 Link 3

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Credits

Sarah Keller - Author

Douglas Meyers- Technology Director Dan Mader- Art Director / Illustrator Robert Rance - Photo Selections Robert Rance - Audio Engineering Robert Rance – Research & Development

Photo Credits

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