They nest in burrows or tunnels, hollow wood, buildings, or old ant nests. Ant mouths have jaws for grasping food and cutting plants. They use their legs to eat sweet-tasting food, nectar, plants, grass, and dead bodies. Antennae are important to ants. They use them to keep from getting lost, not bump into each other, fight, talk to one another, and find food.
Humans often consider ants to be nuisances.
Some ants will bite if disturbed and many will sting. A few can eject foul-smelling secretion from the anus. Enlarged 50 times. There are many types of leafhoppers, some of which are strikingly colored. They are generally less than 10 mm long.