Fascinating Worker Ants

The ant sprints along the crack in the sidewalk avoiding the devourous, monstrous shadows looming above. With every object that blocks the sun, comes another hope and prayer thrown towards the sky. If an ant was human size, at its top speed it would run approximately 30 miles per hour, but they are nearly 1/558 the size of humans. To escape the abundance of bored children at recess, ants have to be very agile and deceptive. Along with these traits, ants have a plethora of skills in their toolbelt to be put to good use at any time. From the day that worker ants are born, their primary job is to move specs of dirt on this earth into what humans call an anthill. These anthills are primal targets for children between the ages of four and seven. Children of that age have an average attention span of 10-15 minutes. When they are playing baseball in the field, kids can only focus for so long before they start to get bored and search for the next object to feast their curious, ever-searching minds on. In most cases, this turns the kids to the nearest anthill. The pile of neatly sorted dirt has never look as appealing as when a child is bored. Everthing that ants have worked for in their lives could turn …show more content…
Dodging every incoming object that has fallen from the sky is a mighty fine skill that ants have learned to use to their full advantage; however, this can be a hard task to endure all of the time. This is why it's important that ants can withstand up to 5,000 times their body weight before their necks rupture. With the force of gravity pulling down all of the falling objects, it can sometimes feel like it is raining debris for the ants. When this feeling arises, ants race to find the nearest fallen leaf to lift above their heads mightily to protect themselves. Then, after the storm has passed, the ant flings the leaf to the wayside and goes out to forage again for the queen