--- title: Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. 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How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/0/) — A 2022 study estimated there are about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth (a 2 with 16 zeros after it), about two and a half million for every person, and more than 14,000 known kinds. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/1/) — Each kind has its own trick. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/2/) — Weaver ants sew leaves into nests, holding their own larvae like glue sticks that spin silk. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/3/) — Honeypot ants turn some workers into living jars of sweet liquid. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/4/) — Trap-jaw ants snap their jaws so fast they can fling themselves into the air. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/5/) — Watch a line of ants crossing the kitchen floor. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/6/) — There is no leader in front; each ant follows a scent trail laid by others, and if you wipe your finger across it, the ants in that spot are lost for a while. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/7/) — Ants are strong for their size because weight shrinks faster than strength as an animal gets smaller. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/8/) — That is why a tiny ant can carry a crumb many times its weight, and why a giant ant in an old film would collapse. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/9/) — Weaver ants of Asia, Africa and Australia build nests from living leaves: workers pull the leaf edges together while others hold larvae that spin silk to glue them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/10/) — Writings from China about 1,700 years ago describe farmers putting weaver ant nests in citrus trees to eat pests, one of the oldest known uses of one animal to control pests; farmers in Australia and Africa still use them on mango and cashew trees. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/12/) — Honeypot ants have workers called repletes whose bellies stretch full of sweet liquid; they hang from the nest ceiling as living food stores, and Aboriginal people in Australia have long dug them up as a sweet treat. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/13/) — Trap-jaw ants lock their jaws open and snap them shut in one of the fastest movements in the animal world, catching quick prey like springtails, and they can snap against the ground to fling themselves away from danger. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/14/) — An ant's narrow waist has one or two small bumps called nodes; it lets the ant bend its rear end any way to sting, bite or spray, and counting the nodes helps scientists tell ant kinds apart. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/15/) — A 2022 study estimated about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, a 2 with 16 zeros after it; all of them together still weigh less than all the people on Earth. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/16/) — Ants follow scent trails laid by other ants; a line of ants is made by feet and smell, not by a leader. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/17/) — Scientists put tiny stilts on Saharan desert ants and they walked too far past their nest, while ants with shortened legs stopped short; the ants measure distance by something like counting steps and use the sun for direction. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/18/) — Matabele ants of Africa raid termites, and when an ant is hurt the others carry it home and lick its wounds, which helps it survive, scientists reported from 2017. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/19/) — Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/20/) — Like all insects, ants have six legs, three body parts and two feelers. - ← previous: [Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/) - next →: [Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)