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The Wonderful World of Animals - Ants Some ants feed on honeydew, a golins, echidnas and numbats are sweet liquid secreted by aphids and especially designed to live on a diet other insects (including mealybugs of ants. Their long sticky tongues and certain caterpillars) when they are used to suck them up, and strong feed on plant sap. (Not to be conclaws are necessary to break into fused with the honeydew melon.) their ant nests. Brown bears and In some cases, the aphids secrete poison arrow frogs also like to eat the liquid when ants, and they they are tapped are also targeted by ants with their by spiders. In antennae. In addition, they exchange for this face danger from delicious drink, parasites, which ants keep predacan destroy an tors away from entire colony. aphids, and will Variations An ant transporting an aphid transport them from one feedAnts are ing location to closely related another. When with wasps and moving to a new bees, and alarea, ants take Field Ant Harvester Ant though they may along the aphids look similar to to ensure a contermites, who tinued supply of are nicknamed honeydew. âwhite antsâ, Fire Ant Moisture Ant they are not as Ants have closely related many enemies, to them. More one of them than 12,500 out being humans. of an estimated Believe it or not, Ghost Ant Odorous Ant total of 22,000 there are even species have some specific been classified. species of ants For this reason, that are endanthey are known gered. But donât Pavement Ant Pharaoh Ant as âEarthâs most shed any tears, as successful spethe approximate cies.â Ants are estimate of the native to everywhere on Earth, ant population currently stands at except for Antarctica, Greenland, about one million ants for every huIceland, and a few remote islands. man on Earth, or between one and ten quadrillion. Thatâs a lot of zeros! Ants and humans Anteaters, aardvarks, pan-
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