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Ants are very common pests around the world and often are also praised for their teamwork and hard work. Let us have a quick look at some interesting facts about ants.

Ants can lift weight 20 times more than their own weight.

Around the world there are about 11000 different species of ants.

Queen ants can give birth to million of babies and live for many years.

Ants do not have hearing sense but they can keep track of everything through their sensors.

When ants fight it is a fight to death most of the time.

Ants do not possess lungs for respiration but they have small holes on their body to allow oxygen intake and get rid of carbon.

Ants live in a group and there are three types of ants categorized as a queen, male worker ants and female worker ants.

Only queen ants can lay eggs and male workers only mates with queen ants.