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- All ants have tiny claws.
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- The American army ants make temporary
overnight camps. They are made out of their own bodies. The ants
cluster together and hold each other with their claws.
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- Weaver ants make their nests in trees. They
use a sticky silk a thread, produced by their larvae.
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- The bulldog ant is a particularly fierce
customer as it eats other insects. It has extra big manibles
which it uses for catching its victim and chopping it up into
little pieces.
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- The Dinoponera ant is the largest
ant.
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- Honeypot ants, spend their whole life feeding
on nectar. Their abdomens swell up and when food is hard to find,
the workers use them as a good supply.
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- When ants meet, they tap their antennae,
the antennae contains a chemical. The chemical gives a message
that can be passed on.
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- An ant's chompers will have you scuttling!
It has strong jaws called mandibles which bite and cut up food
and enemies.
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