Ants (Reading Text)

Teaching aid for classroom reading activity
(KSSR Year 4, Unit 11: Insect Investigators)
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1. Ants live in large groups called colonies. Each
colony consists of three types of ants. They are
the queen, the workers and the males.
The queen and the males have wings, while the
workers do not. Usually, a colony consists of
only one queen ant. The queen is the only ant
that can lay eggs. The queen is also the largest
ant in the colony.
The workers have different duties to perform
in the colony. Some take care of eggs. Some
take care of newly hatched ants called larvae.
Some gather food and keep their home clean.
Ants use their antennae to find food and to find
their way back home. Ants are omnivorous. They
eat both meat and plants.
Some worker ants are given the duty of soldier
to defend the colony, and even attack enemy
colonies for food and nesting space. These
soldier ants are normally bigger than the rest
of the workers. They also have bigger and
stronger mandibles.