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There are more then 10,000 species of ants and they all share the same common traits. The traits that they share are three body sections. The body sections are the head, thorax, and abdomen. The head contains a relatively large brain. It also had the eyes, antennae, and the mandibles (which are shaped differently depending on the ant). The antennae are what an ant uses to smell, touch, taste, and detect movement. The next part of …

…work to care for the one queens offspring. The colonies inhabitants are divided into different jobs. There are workers who find food, nurses, the female ants, who care for the young and the food, and there is the queen, who is the mother of the entire colony. Once a year the male ants fly away and the female aunts, that have wings, fly away and they mate and go off and star there own colonies.