WISDOM FROM LOWER SPECIES...A MUST READ

I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND WAS READING THE BIBLE AND I SAW A PLACE THAT SHOCKED ME...PROV 6:6..."Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." IT WAS FUNNY HOW I WENT ROUND THE COMPOUND LOOKING FOR ANTS AND I BEHELD ANTS TRYING TO CAPTURE EARTHWORMS; I STUDIED CAREFULLY AND FOUND THE FOLLOWING UNDER-LISTED CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANTS;

1. THEY ARE SKILLED IN THE ART OF TIMING AND SEASON...SO THEY DON'T LOOSE ANY MINUTE TO LAXITY
2. THEY HAVE UNITY OF PURPOSE...THAT IS WHY THEY SUCCEED AGAINST THEIR PREY
3. WHEN THEIR PREY(GOAL) STRUGGLES THE MOST THAT IS WHEN THEY STICK ON THE MOST
4. THEIR GOALS ARE DEFINITE AND PRECISE...THEY KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, HOW THEY WANT IT AND WHY THEY WANT IT
5. THEY DON'T CONSIDER THE MIGHT OF THEIR PREY BUT BELIEVES IN UNITY AND THEIR INNER STRENGTH 
6. THEIR STRENGTH LIES NOT JUST IN THEIR ARMORED BODY BUT IN THEIR HEART
7. THEY FOCUS ON THEIR PREY(GOAL)...AND ARE SO DETERMINED
8. THEY ARE ARTISANS OF SAVING....IN FACT THEY ARE BANKERS

THE AFOREMENTIONED FACTS ABOUT THE ANTS ARE JUST FEW AS MY STUDY COULD EXPOSE...BUT TAKE NOTE, THIS THINGS IF TRANSLATED TO OUR DAILY LIVES; WOULD TRANSFORM OUR LIVES IN AN UNFATHOMABLE WAY.

LESSONS: OUR STRENGTH DO NOT LIE IN OUR CAPABILITIES BUT IN HOW MUCH WE CAN SUMMON UP COURAGE AND BY BELIEVING AND UNDERSTANDING THAT WISDOM IS SUPREME AMONG ALL MIGHTY ELEMENTS.

BELOW ARE OTHER INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE ANT: READ ON

Like all insects, ants have six legs. Each leg has three joints. The legs of the ant are very    strong so they can run very quickly. If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse. Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight. An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human

ant has a pair of large, strong jaws. The jaws open and shut sideways like a pair of scissors. Adult ants cannot chew and swallow solid food. Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. They throw away the dry part that is left over. The ant has two eyes, each eye is made of many smaller eyes.

They are called compound eyes. The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants. Like all insects, the outside of their body is covered with a hard armour this is called the exoskeleton. Ants have four distinct growing stages, the egg, larva, pupa and the adult. Biologists classify ants as a special group of wasps. (Hymenoptera Formicidae) There are over 10000 known species of ants. Each ant colony has at least one or more queens.

The job of the queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look after. Worker ants are sterile, they look for food, look after the young, and defend the nest from unwanted visitors. Ants are clean and tidy insects. Some worker ants are given the job of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting it outside in a special rubbish dump! Each colony of ants has its own smell. In this way, intruders can be recognized immediately. Many ants such as the common Red species have a sting which they use to defend their nest.

The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites. The Slave-Maker Ant (Polyergus Rufescens) raids the nests of other ants and steals their pupae. When these new ants hatch,they work as slaves within the colony. The worker ants keep the eggs and larvae in different groups according to ages.

At night the worker ants move the eggs and larvae deep into the nest to protect them from the cold. During the daytime, the worker ants move the eggs and larvae of the colony to the top of the nest so that they can be warmer. If a worker ant has found a good source for food, it leaves a trail of scent so that the other ants in the colony can find the food. Army Ants are nomadic and they are always moving. They carry their larvae and their eggs with them in a long column.

The Army Ant (Ecitron Burchelli) of South America, can have as many as 700,000 members in its colony. The Leaf Cutter Ants are farmers. They cut out pieces of leaves which they take back to their nests. They chew them into a pulp and a special fungus grows it. Ants cannot digest leaves because they cannot digest cellulose. THUMBS FOR THESE LITTLE ONES WITH SO MUCH TO SHARE