2131 ants

Name:.........................................................................................................

Worker ants
looking for food

Ants are insects.
They have a large head, two big eyes
strong jaws and long feelers.
They have six legs.
The body is in two parts; the thorax
where the legs join, and the abdomen.
The ant colony has three different
types of ant; the queen, the males and
the workers.
The most important ant in the nest is
the queen.
Shenest
is very
large
onlyants.
one who can lay eggs.
The
is built
byand
thethe
worker
It is usually underground.
The nest is made up of lots of tunnels that lead into chambers.

chamber

tunnel
workers feeding
the larvae

eggs
queen

cocoons ready to
hatch


The queen lays lots of eggs.
Most are workers, some are males, and a few will be new queens.

All worker ants are females.
They do not have wings and cannot lay eggs.
Worker ants look after the nest and find food.
They look after the eggs and feed the larvae.
They care for the cocoons until the new ants are ready to come out.
Male ants have wings.
They usually hide in the nest.
Sometimes they follow a new queen
who flies off to start a new ant colony.
Flying ants

Ants are often attacked and eaten by
spiders, beetles and centipedes.

centipede

Ants have strong jaws to bite and
they can sting with acid.
Soldier ants are big worker ants with
very large jaws.

beetle

jaws

spider


Ants are insects.

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Label the parts of the ant.
1. head

2. feeler

3. thorax

4. abdomen

5. leg

3.
2.

4.

1.

5.

How many....?
heads

A.
B.

…………

feelers ……….

thorax ………….

abdomen ………

have or has?
A spider __________ eight legs.

C.

Centipedes ____________ many legs.
An ant ________________ six legs.
People _____________ two legs.

legs …………..

1

2
4

1

1

3

2

3

4

2
4

3

1

2

3

4

Draw the right number of ants

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10