Ants

 There are 15,000 species of ants.Ants are very social.                                             The queen in an ant colony can live for up to 30 years but worker ants usually live for only three months.The queen is much larger than the worker ants and is usually quite recognisable; her abdomen is much larger.The queen is heavily fortified and protected in an ant nest.                                                  Ants communicate with each other through chemical signals.Ants bury their dead like humans;there are ant cemeteries.