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Article: Bug power: some insects work together in groups.(SCIENCE)
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- Weekly Reader, Edition 2 (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Teamwork
How do some insects work together?
What do termites, ants, and honeybees have in common? They are all social (SOH-shuhl) insects. Social insects live together in large groups called colonies. Social insects always have at least one queen. The queen is the mother. She lays the eggs. The rest of the group divides the work.
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Amazing Ants
Ants often live in underground nests. The nests have thousands of rooms connected by tunnels. Millions of ants may live together in a nest. It can contain more than one queen. Worker ants take care of all the other ants. Larger ...