Ants

How much weight can a single ant carry?

• 100 times its weight

• 50 times its weight

• 20 times its weight

• 10 times its weight

A small colony of ants would include about

• 10 ants

• 20 ants

• 50 ants

• 100 ants

Which ant has the most painful sting of any insect?

• red ant

• black ant

• bullet ant

• fire ant

Why is the queen ant important to the colony?

• queen ant is head of the colony and can lay thousands of eggs.

• queen ant is the hardest worker of all the ants.

• queen ant wears an ant crown and bosses the other ants.

• queen ant defends the colony when in danger.

Which of the following ants have wings?

• queen ant

• drone ant

• worker ant

• both the queen and the drone have wings

How long can the queen ant live?

• 30 years

• 3 years

• 1 year

• 5 years

What happens to the colony when the queen dies?

• The colony finds a new queen.

• The colony continues with out the queen.

• The colony survives a few months.

• The colony becomes larger and larger.

Which ant lives longer than the drones?

• worker

• larvae

• caterpillar

• meat ants

What role do foraging worker ants do?

• travel up to 700 feet from their nest and find their way back by following a scent trail left by others.

• capturing another ant colony for the queen ant

• foraging through garbage and bringing food to the colony

• foraging worker ants feed the larvae ants

Worker ants do which of the following?

• find food

• care for the queen and offspring

• build nest and defend the colony

• all of the above