*Ants can actually lift 20 times their body weight.
*Ants have two stomachs. One is for the ant's personal use. The other is to share food with the community. (Thus, some ants live on the vomit of other ants, isn't that a fact about ants you can pass along at dinner time?)
*The queen's job is to lay eggs. The sterile worker ants look after her eggs by finding food, looking after the young, and defending the nest from unwanted visitors.
* The Army Ant of South America has the largest colony of any ants with as many as 700,000 ants in a single colony.
*The Leaf Cutter ants are actually farmers. They grow fungus on leaves and harvest it.
*Here's another interesting fact about ants: right this very minute, there are 10,000,000,000,000,000 ants living on earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Ants are the only species of animal that inhabits every continent on earth. Also, there are more than 70 different species of ant in the world. That means that each continent has 10 or more species of ant living on it!
*When body size is taken into account, ants are the strongest creatures alive. If an ant was the size of a human it would be able to carry the Saturn on its back.
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