wunder beta🐜 Ants!
Shrink down and explore the busy world of ants, from their underground cities to their super strength and secret smell trails.
What you’ll learn
- A Colony Is a CityUnderstand how an ant colony is organized, with a queen, workers, soldiers, and teamwork keeping the whole city running.An ant colony is like an underground city full of tunnels and rooms with special jobs. One queen lays all the eggs, while worker ants, all girls, build, feed babies, find food, and guard the nest, with bigger soldier ants defending the home. No single ant is in charge. Instead, each ant does one small job, and together the whole colony works like one big creature.
- Super Strength and Ant HighwaysLearn how ants are super strong for their size and how they build scent trails and communicate with antennae.Ants are incredibly strong for their size, with some carrying about fifty times their own weight and teaming up to move even bigger loads. To find their way, ants leave scent trails called pheromones that others follow, forming ant highways. They talk using their antennae, sharing smelly messages about food, friends, and danger.
- Amazing Ants Around the WorldDiscover incredible ant species and habitats, and learn how baby ants grow up from egg to adult.Ants live almost everywhere and come in more than twelve thousand kinds. Leafcutter ants farm a fungus using cut leaves, army ants march in huge groups and build living nests from their own bodies, and honeypot ants store sweet food in their bellies. New ants grow through metamorphosis, changing from egg to larva to pupa to adult with the workers' care.
- Ants vs the WorldGrasp how many ants there are, how they help the planet, how their bodies work, and how to observe ants like a scientist.Ants are one of Earth's most numerous animals, with an astonishing total weight rivaling all wild birds and mammals. Their small insect bodies, with six legs, an outer skeleton, antennae, and strong jaws, are built for hard work. Ants keep the planet healthy by loosening soil, cleaning up, spreading seeds, and feeding other animals, and anyone can study them like a scientist by watching gently and closely.
Questions this course answers
What is the special job of the queen ant?
The queen is usually the biggest ant, and she lays all the eggs that become new ants, sometimes thousands of them.
Which ants do most of the jobs in the colony, like building and finding food?
Worker ants, which are all girls, do the many jobs of the colony, from digging tunnels to finding food to guarding the nest.
What is the secret that makes an ant colony work so well?
No ant is the boss. Each ant does one small job, and together all those jobs add up to one incredible working city.
About how much can some ants carry compared to their own weight?
Some ants can carry about fifty times their own weight, like a person lifting a car over their head.
How do ants make their trails, or 'highways,' for other ants to follow?
An ant leaves a scent trail called a pheromone, and other ants smell it with their antennae and follow it to food.
What do ants use to smell, touch, and share messages?
Ants use their antennae, the feelers on their heads, to smell, touch, and share smelly messages with other ants.
Grounded in trusted sources
- National Geographic
- Smithsonian Institution
- American Museum of Natural History
- The University of California Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
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