ant cities

Ant Cities

Have you seen ants busy running over a hill of dirt? They may look like they are just running around. But the ants built that hill to live in, and each ant has work to do.

Some ants may disappear into a small hole in the hill. The hole is the door to their nest.

These are harvester ants. Their nest is made of lots of rooms and tunnels. These little insects made them all.

Underneath the hill there may be miles of tunnels and hundreds of rooms. The floors are worn smooth by thousands of ant feet. It is dark inside the nest. But the ants stay cozy.

In the rooms of the nest, worker ants do many different kinds of work. It is like a city, a busy city of ants.