How do ants defend themselves?
Every day there are a few thoughtful questions about ants in Andy’s mail bag. They are the favorite insects of many young readers, perhaps because some ants remind us of peop1e. But there are so many different types of ants that there is never time or space to answer ail the questions. There are so many different ants that we could give a special kind to every man, woman and child in a small town. We need more than 2,500 different names for them. All of them are alike in many ways, but each kind has a few interesting ways of its own. Each little ant has sharp jaws to 0ite her enemies. Some spit bitter juices at their foes. A few have poisonous stingers in their tails. Some fall down and play dead, hoping to send :heir ant eating enemies away. Hundreds of relatives 1ive together in a colony, for all ants love family life. The family home is a r1est, often tunneled in the ground. The queen mother and maybe one or two daughter queens stay home and lay lhe eggs. A few princely male ants al
