Uncle Milton Ant Farm Gel Colony User Manual
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Ants use their antennae to touch, taste and smell!
Ants have a better sense of smell than dogs!
Ants have two stomachs!
The trap-jaw ant has the fastest jaw in the west (as well as anywhere else)!
A harvester ant nest can contain tens of thousands of members, and
other kinds can contain half a million!
A harvester ant nest can be fifteen feet deep!
Harvesters have only one queen to a colony; others can have more than one!
In Japan, a super-colony of 45,000 interconnected nests of red wood ants
has a million queens and hundreds of millions of workers, and it takes up an
entire square mile!
Some queens can live forty years or more!
An ant is able to lift loads of up to fifty times its own weight!
An ant typically carries objects that equal its own weight or less!
The smallest ant in the world is the tropical Carebara ant, which is about 3/100
of an inch (.75mm) long!
The largest ant in the world is the African driver ant, which is about one and a
half inches (38mm) long!
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