Very fond of insects, sweet foods and seeds
 

Very fond of seeds
 

Carry 2,400 insects to their nest per day
 

Food being carried by a single ant
 

Gather honey and store it in the stomach
 

Sharing honey with a fellow ant by mouth-to-mouth

Fighting an enemy until the enemy dies
 

Ants fight to protect their nest
 

Very weak if alone
 

Make a nest as deep as 4 m under the soil
 

Mating ceremony in the sky
 

Mother raises the young
 

Two thousand ants in one nest hole
 

262 species of ants live in Japan
 

1. Let's keep ants in an empty bottle or a flower dish.
 

2. Let's keep ants in a house with a playground.
 

3. Let's build an ant apartment block.
 

1. Let's see what ants can be found.
 

2. Food examination
 

3. Ants working in the daytime and those working at night
 

4. Examination of the ant working time
 

5. Examination of ants dragging a caterpillar
 

6. Examination of how ants walk
 

7. Examination of ant speed
 

8. Observation of colored ants
 

9. How much honey does the ant gather?
 

10. Food for lifting and food for dragging
 

11. Let's give ants red honey to eat