Top Twenty Teeny-Tiny Ant Facts

Ants may be tiny creatures, but they have a lot more to them than meets the eye.

What they lack in size, they make up for in intelligence, cleverness, and other surprising qualities.

Some aren’t even that tiny!

So, let’s look at these twenty interesting facts about ants!

It has been estimated that there are approximately ten trillion ants living on Earth at any given time.

The largest ant ever discovered measured was the Titanomyrma Giganteum. It was 2.4 inches with a wingspan of 6 inches.

Some species of ant have no need for males. The species Mycocepurus Smithii is completely made up of females. Their queens are able to reproduce clones and do not need to reproduce normally.

Ants have been around since the age of dinosaurs. The ant species first evolved approximately 130 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.

 Some worker ants are given the job of cleaning trash or unwanted items from the nest and taking them outside to designated trash piles – Ants are so clean!

The biomass of all the ants around the world is equivalent to the biomass of all human beings around the world.