Home Sweet Home for Ants
If you’ve ever felt like your home is crowded, imagine what it must be like for ants. They live in anthills, which have rows and rows of tiny underground tunnels. For your usual North American ant,...
View ArticleGetting Carried Away – by Ants
And yet another wild question from a fan: Sophia Y. wants to know, how many ants would it take to pick you up and carry you? That sounds pretty itchy, but let’s do the math to find out. Ants are famous...
View ArticleOne-in-a-Million Pizza Fan
Ants may look tiny, but they’re famous for their strength: they can carry up to 50 times their own weight! They must be pretty hungry after all their hard work. So our friend and pizza fan Emmett L....
View ArticleBugs on Stilts
For ants in the deserts of Tunisia, it isn’t easy to find their way home. The sand looks the same in every direction. The ants can’t follow or smell their tracks, because the wind keeps erasing them....
View ArticleA Very Busy Picnic
Spring is picnic time, and wherever there’s a picnic, ants want to join in. So our friend and fan Annika S. asked, how many ants would it take to cover your whole yard? Well, even the biggest ants are...
View ArticleCross-Country Crawl
The ant is one of the strongest animals out there. Sure, ants are tiny and can carry only a crumb or a teeny piece of a leaf. But as compared to their own body weight, ants rule. As we’ve talked about...
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When the Plant Is the Boss
It must be tough being a plant, worrying that some bird or bug will munch on you. But some plants fight back: the pitcher plant eats bugs! How does it do this? The plant has tube shapes filled with a...
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How to Bake a Bug Cake
We all know some kid who wowed everyone by eating a live ant (or if you haven’t met that kid yet, you will). Thankfully, someone knows how to make ants taste a lot better. Here we see a leafcutter ant...
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