Yes, ants can be black, blue, red, brown, yellow, and green. There are 8,000 ant species. Ants are very busy creatures. Each ant has a certain job.
Ants live underground in an ant colony.
An ant colony is like an underground city. There are tunnels that connect to rooms called chambers where ants live and work. Ants live for fifteen to twenty years. Woodpeckers use their long, sticky tongues to pierce the ant's nest and eat ant eggs. Also, people are enemies of ants when they purposely step on them and also when they use insecticides.