Ants, Little but Mighty

What is an ant? Ants are insects, they have six legs
and each leg has three joints. Ants legs are very strong.
With it's little legs it can lift twenty-five time its own body
weight. They have two stomachs. One stomach holds its
food, and the second holds food to be shared with other
ants. The out side of their body is covered with a hard
armor. This is called the exoskeleton. Ants have four
growing stages, the egg, larva, pupa, and the adult. There
are over 100,000 known species of ants. Each ant colony
has at least one or more queens.
The queens job is to lay eggs. How does she start her
colony? Well in the spring all the males and young winged
queens leave there nest and fly high in the air and mate.
The few ant queens that survive this "marriage flight" cast
off there wings and instinctively begin to look for a spot to
start a new ant colony.
After making a nest, the young queen ant seals off the......

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Title: Ants, Little But Mighty
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