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Ant Jokes Page: 1 | 2 | 3 What do you call an ant who likes to be alone? An independant! Why don't anteaters get sick? Because they are full of antibodies! Why did the ant-elope? Nobody gnu! Who is the most famous French ant? Napoleant! What do you call an ant with frogs legs? An antphibian! What do you call an ant who can't play the piano? Discordant! What kind of ant can you colour with? A crayant! What do you call an ant with five pairs of eyes? Antteneye! What do you get if you cross some ants with some tics? All sorts of antics! What do you call an ant who skips school? A truant!
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The World of AntsAnts belong to an order of insects called Hymenoptera; this group also includes bees, wasps, and sawflies. They belong to the insect family Formicidae meaning "ant family." There are over 60 genre existing in North America comprising hundreds of different species on this continent alone. Worldwide there are thirty-five thousand known species of ants.The most recognized ants are: fire ants, army ants, carpenter ants, driver ants, harvester ants, weaver ants, fungus-gardening ants, aphid-tending ants, honeypot ants, and acacia ants. Besides those ants that track across our kitchen counters, ants can be found in many places: The live in the soil, leaf litter, rotting wood and dead trees. Ants are indigenous almost everywhere, except for the Arctic and Antarctic and some islands. All ants are social. In fact, they are the only insects in which all species are social. Ants dwell in colonies which consist of families or groups of related families. These groups contains one or more queens, who rule the colony, and short-lived males, whose only job is to fertilize the queen. The other females in the colony are workers who stay busy by enlarging and repairing the nest, taking care of the larvae, tending to the queen, defending the colony, and foraging for food.
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