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Activity: Fire Ant Life Cycle Game
Find out what it’s like to live in a fire ant family. This activity to accompany Life in a Fire Ant …
Life in a Fire Ant Family: Workers
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Fire Ant Workers
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| A worker ant holding a clutch of eggs. Photo by Charles Barr. | Fire ant workers tending the queen. Photo by S.B. Vinson. | An array |
Fire Ant Physiques: Make An Ant
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Activity: Make a Papier Mache Ant
Overview: Create a model of an ant using balloons and papier-mâché. Learn the parts of an ant, and observe that an …
Fire Ant Physiques: Rolling for Parts of an Ant
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Activity: Rolling for Parts of an Ant
Overview
You and your friends will match the parts of an ant to a diagram, completing the diagram by …
Fire Ant Physiques: What's Buggin' You
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Activity: What’s Buggin’ You?
Build a three-dimensional (3-D) model of a fire ant. Learn the different parts of an ant and new vocabulary words.
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Fire Ants: My Island Home
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Activity: My Island Home
Hands-on Exercise: Learning about fire ant habitats
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Overview
Observe ants in an island …
Fire Ant Physiques
FA Youth Home > Lessons: Fire Ant Physiques
Overview
Parts of a fire ant
How can you distinguish an ant from other insects? How can you tell one species of ant from another? Ants share important characteristics with all other …
Fire Ants: Where in the World?
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Activity: Where in the World?
Hands-on Exercise: To find where fire ants occur
Overview
Use a Web site to learn about geographic regions and to determine if those …
Invaders by Sea: Imported Fire Ants
FA Youth Home > Lessons: Invaders by the Sea
Overview
Tramp freighter ship typical of one that may have brought red imported fire ants to the U.S. from Brazil in the 1930’s. Photo courtesy of njscuba.net.
Red imported fire …
Fire Ants: Just Floating Along
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Activity: Just Floating Along
Hands-on Exercise:
Try this experiment to see why ships needed “ballast.” This activity will demonstrate the need for “ballast” in the “hold” of a ship …