 Ants 

live longer than any other type of insect--they can live up to

30 years!
 Ants have 250,000 brain cells, and are believed to be the world’s
smartest insect.
 There are over 12,000 known species of ant.
 Don’t try to drown ants--they can survive underwater for up to
two weeks, because they have extremely tiny breathing tubes
which water can’t penetrate.
 Every worker, soldier, and queen ant is female. Only drones are
male. Drones don’t do any colony work; their only function is to
fertilize a princess ant. They die shortly thereafter. Men.
 An all-female species of ant was recently discovered. These leaf
cutter ants reproduce by cloning themselves!
 Ants can sense the Earth’s magnetic field, and use it for
navigation.
 Ants communicate with one another using chemical pheromone
trails. Colonies use these chemicals to work together so efficiently
that they have been labelled “superorganisms”--several
organisms working as essentially one being.
 Every ant colony has its own unique scent, so that intruder ants in
a colony can be recognized immediately.
 If a man could run as fast as an ant relative to his size, he could do
34 miles per hour. For reference, Usain Bolt has been clocked at
28 mph--and he’s USAIN BOLT.
 Ants move an estimated 50 tons of soil per year, making them the
world’s main turners of soil, according to Harvard sociobiologist
Edward O. Wilson.