Ants are insects that live in nests which can contain up to thousands of ants. Ants live in colonies and will rarely be alone. The majority of ants are wingless females (known as worker ants), but there will also be a fertile female known as the Queen ant, as well as male ants. The job of the worker ants is to look after the nest and gather food for the colony.
Ants will have 3 distinctive parts to their body - the gaster, the thorax and the head. The majority of ants will have a pair of antennae on their head. Worker ants as previously mentioned will work to find food and can be seen doing this by moving along a trail behind each other. To find the nest, simply follow the trail. During the mating process, ants will swarm (the reproductive ants within the colony will have wings) above the nest.
