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real cows eat turns into milk. The aphid “milk” is called

honey dew. When an aphid is full of honey dew, milker

ants stroke it, and it drops its honey dew for the milk-

ers to gather up.

Other farmer ants raise mushrooms. They plant tiny

bits of mushroom in their deepest, dampest caves.

The bits of mushroom grow, then the ants snip them

off so they won’t grow too large. The ants are always

very good farmers. They weed their mushroom beds

to prevent growth of other sorts of plants among

their crops.

Ants are sanitary

Yes, ants are very neat and tidy creatures. They keep

themselves clean and they will not tolerate litter. They

have a place that they use as a “dump site.” All

the trash from the colony is carefully

gathered up and hauled away to

this dump, usually away from the

rest of the colony.

Long live the queen!

The idea that all ant colonies have only one queen is

not always true. There are often two or

three queens in a colony, and in a very

large colony, there may be as many as a

dozen.

In the mating season, the young queen

and prince ants crawl out into the sun.

Both have wings, and they fly high into the air to mate.

The princes have now finished their job, and they soon

die. The queens, however, have scarcely begun their

lives’ work.

After a young queen rests, she sheds her wings and

explores until she finds a good place to start a new

colony. She digs a tunnel with a small chamber at the

end, and there she lays her eggs. For the rest of her life,

the queen will do nothing but lay eggs. Nurse ants will

care, feed and clean her.

Some eggs the queen lays will hatch other queens

and some will hatch princes. Others–most of them in

fact–will hatch workers. Indeed, for the first few years

of her life, the queen will hatch only workers. An ant

queen may live for as long as fifteen years.

Ants are loyal

Ants are among the most loyal

creatures on earth. They do what-

ever it takes to help each other.

We can learn some wonderful lessons in good citize-

ship by watching ants. First, ants respect the rights of

others. They’re always ready to help and work as a

team. They share their food and get along very well in

their colony.

When an ant begins to dig a tunnel, it sends out the

message that it needs help. Other ants come help

complete the tunnel. This is how ants accomplish such

seemingly overwhelming projects as creating an entire

underground colony, grain by grain!

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