Ants

APPEARANCE AND SIZE FACTS

• Ants range from the tiny, somewhat harmless Ghost Ant to the fierce Fire Ant that delivers a fiery sting, in which, some people are highly allergic to.
• Ants have a three-part segmented body, three pairs of legs.
• They live in a colony with many other individuals of the same species.
• Members of the order Hymenoptera, the same as bees and wasps.
• All ants are in the family Formicidae, which is divided into a dozen or so subfamilies.