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Ants with Second Class

20/1/2014

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This week we are looking at insects and we decided to focus on the ant. Did you know that ants can live up to ten years? 
An individual ant cannot survive without its colony.
Ants have lived on the Earth for more than 100 million years.
Ants are related to wasps.
Ants live in organized communities called colonies.
Ants smell with their antennae. 
Ants can hear with their legs. 
Ants are near-sighted. 
Ants can bite, sting, and spray their enemies with chemicals. 
Ants can walk upside down. 
Ants are very neat and clean.  
Ants do not have lungs, and they have tiny brains.

Ants do not have lungs, and they have tiny brains. 
An ant’s worst enemy is another ant.  Some ant colonies have 
huge wars in which thousands of ants rip one another to pieces. 
Ants are strong. They can carry food 5 times greater than their 
own weight or drag items 25 times heavier. 
Ants like hot and humid climates, like the tropics.
Worker ants are all female. 
Male ants don’t do any work in the colony. They live a short time 
and their only job is to mate with young queens.
When an ant dies it simply falls over. The other ants ignore it 
until it starts to rot.  Then they pick it up, and carry it out of the 
nest




We have discovered lots of interesting facts about ants. 
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/activities/funscience/ants-science-experiment/_

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12 Comments
Miss Williams link
20/1/2014 09:59:05 am

Wow Ms. Burke's class, you've been learning lots about Ants! Thank you for sharing your learning, there are facts that I've discovered from reading your blog. I wonder how they breathe without any lungs?
Miss Williams
Class 11, Hopwood C P School

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Ms Burke
21/1/2014 05:21:10 am

We have learned that Ants breathe through tiny holes in their side called Spiracles

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Ms Burke's Class
21/1/2014 05:23:25 am

Thank you so much for sharing your comment and question with us.

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Miss Williams link
24/1/2014 05:01:34 am

You're very welcome, thank you very much for answering my question about how they breathe.
Miss Williams,
Class 11, Hopwood C P School

Miss Williams link
24/1/2014 05:01:42 am

You're very welcome, thank you very much for answering my question about how they breathe.
Miss Williams,
Class 11, Hopwood C P School

rocky link
11/4/2014 11:24:17 am

Do ants and termite get like friends or no

JAIMEE TARA
23/1/2014 04:10:31 am

WE HAVE LEARNED LOTS ABOUT BUTTERFLIES THEY ARE SO CUTE

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alex and clyde
23/1/2014 04:12:20 am

we learned that ants float on water

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ronan
23/1/2014 04:15:12 am

we have learned that the bullet ant is the rarist

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cara and anna
23/1/2014 04:23:09 am


ants do not have lungs

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Erin Rachel
23/1/2014 04:25:50 am

ants can walk up side down.and they can live for 10 years.

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liam
23/1/2014 04:27:02 am

strong.

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