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There are many kinds of ants. They don’t all look the same, but they have the same body parts.
Most ant colonies have a queen. Her job is to lay eggs. The queen is much larger than the other ants.
The other female ants in a colony are called workers. They gather food and take care of the queen and the young. They also guard and clean the nest.
Ants “talk” to each other with scents called pheromones. They use their antennas to smell the scents given off by other ants.
Army ants work together to hunt meals much bigger than themselves.
Red ants get their food by “milking” little insects called aphids. A hungry ant rubs its antennas on an aphid. That makes the aphid squeeze out a sticky drop of sweet liquid. Yum!
Leafcutter ants carry pieces of leaves back to their colony. The ants use the leaves to grow fungus to eat.
