Ants of all kinds

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Crazy Ant	Fire Ant	Pharaoh Ant	Carpenter Ant	Cricket
Attracted by sweet or greasy foods.	Colonies nest in soil and in voids like hollow doors and walls.	Very small and difficult to control, nest throughout structures.	Destroys wood. Usually found in moist wood. Reproductives have wings.	Make an annoying noise in large numbers. Found primarily outdoors, but can move inside.

Outstanding Ant Sites: click to enlarge picture Ant Colony Developers Association

Behavior of real ants Gakken's Photo Encyclopedia: Ants

Very fond of insects, sweet foods and seeds

Very fond of seeds

Carry 2,400 insects to their nest per day

Food being carried by a single ant

Gather honey and store it in the stomach

Sharing honey with a fellow ant by mouth-to-mouth

Ant fighting

Fighting an enemy until the enemy dies

Ants fight to protect their nest

Non-fighting ants

Ant enemies

Very weak if alone

Most fearful ant lion

Rearing insects to obtain honey

Small but strong

Make a nest as deep as 4 m under the soil

Make a nest in the soil or inside a decayed tree

Mating ceremony in the sky

Preparation for the mating fligh

Ant eggs, larvae and pupae

Mother raises the young

Workers raise the young

Two thousand ants in one nest hole

There is only one mother (queen) ant

Ant life through winter

Exit of the nest hole is closed in winter

Ant species

262 species of ants live in Japan

How to keep ants

1. Let's keep ants in an empty bottle or a flower dish.

2. Let's keep ants in a house with a playground.

3. Let's build an ant apartment block.

4. Make a nest with plaster

Guidance for individual research on ants

1. Let's see what ants can be found.

2. Food examination

3. Ants working in the daytime and those working at night

4. Examination of the ant working time

5. Examination of ants dragging a caterpillar

6. Examination of how ants walk

7. Examination of ant speed

8. Observation of colored ants

9. How much honey does the ant gather?

10. Food for lifting and food for dragging

11. Let's give ants red honey to eat

12. How many workers are born in one nest?

Fire Ants click to enlarge picture

The difference between ants and termites

There are ants of many kinds. But to most people ants are either carpenter ants or little tiny ants. But actually there are: Acrobat Ants, Carpenter Ants, Crazy Ants Little Black Ants Odorous House Ants Pavement Ants Pharaoh Ants Thief Ants and the Large Yellow Ant

If this isn't enough information see Ant Trivia

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