Ants
By: Lara Segovia
Introduction
Ants work hard for survival. Luckily, ants are super strong, which helps them get used to all of their very hard tasks, which they do every single day.
Food
Shelter
Ants work to build to build their shelter. To make an ant hill, they have to chew dirt with their jaws /mandibles. I really would not want to have to chew dirt to survive! Then, their saliva helps it make little bricks. The ants pack the bricks to reinforce their tunnels. As they make room for the bricks, they make a pile of excess dirt, which slowly forms their home, an ant hill.
Strength
Ants are strong. They can carry more than ten times their weight! That's a lot, isn't it? The average elephant can only carry a fifth of its weight. They can also dig up sixteen billion tons of dirt.That's the same as three billion dump trucks!