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 * ANTS ANTS ANTS ANTS ANTS ANTS I LOVE ANTS AND THIS IS MY WIKI**

Ants are found in many parts of the world mainly in warm and hot countries. There are over 9000 ant species. Ants are normally small in size about 1cm long. They are very strong for their size and some ants can lift up to 50 times their weight.
 * __BODY__**

Some ants live in ant nests high in trees but majority of ants live underground in large colonies where the Queen ant rules.
 * __WHERE THEY LIVE__**

__WHAT THEY EAT__** Ants like to form colonies and in these colonies are slaves which collect the food and bring it back to the nest, although some ants keep insects prisoner and feed on the sweet food they produce.
 * [[image:acervo.jpg align="right" caption="ants nest"]]

Ants will attack and defend themselves by biting or stinging other species or humans but they are not deadly.
 * __ARE THEY DEADLY__**


 * __INTERESTING FACTS__**
 * 1) Ants are social insects this means they like to live and work together in a group and they all have a job which helps protect and feed their colony.
 * 2) The queen ant can live for 30 years the worker ants 2 years but the male ants only survive for a few weeks.

The ant starts as an egg and then they turn into larva and then a cocoon covers the ant while it grows and changes into a big ant
 * __LIFE CYCLE__**

I HOPE YOU FIND SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT ANTS MY MUM THINKS THEY ARE ANNOYING DO YOU???