Interesting facts about ants

I believe Ants are very fascinating creatures, they have a number of attributes, which makes them unique insects. Firstly, Ants can lift up to 50 times their own body weight! This is the equivalent of a fully grown man carrying a truck, with his teeth.

Secondly, for every human on the planet, there are roughly 1.5 million ants! This means that if every human being on the planet was put on a scale and similarly, every ant was put on a scale, the two scales would roughly balance.

Thirdly, Honeypot ants are eaten as a delicacy. These ants have large swollen stomachs full of nectar. This storage of nectar acts a emergency reserve for the colony during times of drought. The aborigine people of Australia eat this ant as a sweet because of the high amount of nectar.