Information Sheet
Woodland Animals
 

Ant

There are six common types of ant, The Wood Ant, Jet Ant, Small Black Ant, Yellow ant, Pharoh's Ant and the Red Ant

Ants like dark, dry places. Some make nests in the soft earth of dry grassland.

Ant stings are caused by the formic acid which they squirt when they bite!

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Ants eat :
Some ants are omnivores others are carnivores. Red ants are carniviores.

They eat other insects and their larvae

Ants are eaten by:
birds

Group: Insecta