COME LET US LEARN FROM ANTS...

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. So said the Bible Proverbs 6:6-8.

Ants have plenty of lessons to share with us..

The legs of ants are very strong so they can run very quickly. If a man could run as fast, for his size, he could run like a racehorse...Robust enthusiasm

Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight... Enormous labor out put

An ant's brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million cells. So, a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.While they are a team they are much stronger...Benefits of team work

The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants... Spirit of sharing.

There are three kinds of ants in a colony: The queen, the female workers, and males. The queen and the males have wings, while the workers don’t. The queen is the only ant that can lay eggs. The male ant’s job is to mate with the future queen ants and they do not live very long afterward. Each ant colony has at least one or more queens. The job of the queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look after. Worker ants are wingless females that are sterile. They look for food, look after the young, and defend the nest.

Ants have four distinct growing stages, the egg, larva, pupa and the adult. The worker ants keep the eggs and larvae in different groups according to ages. Day and night, the worker ants move the eggs and larvae to warmer places within the colony. .Sharing of responsibility.

Ants are clean and tidy insects. Some worker ants are given the job of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting it outside in a special rubbish dump!...Amazing house keeping.

Ant colonies also have soldier ants that protect the queen, defend the colony, gather or kill food, and attack enemy colonies in search for food and nesting space. If they defeat another ant colony, they take away eggs of the defeated ant colony. When the eggs hatch, the new ants become the "slave" ants for the colony. Some jobs of the colony include taking care of the eggs and babies, gathering food for the colony and building the anthills or mounds.

The Leaf Cutter Ants are farmers. A Tropical Leafcutter ant uses its sharp outer jaw to cut leaves and make them into pulp. The pulp is later used to make fungus gardens. These gardens are looked after and harvested for food... Caring for future.

So let us revisit these tiny creatures for some more wisdom we humans who generally feel proud how superior we are.