I am taking the Nature Club focus of from colors to letters of the alphabet. The letter of the week is "A." Ants may ruin a picnic, but they are very beneficial, especially to plants. They aerate the soil enabling plants to grow better. I have mentioned before that they "plant" the seeds of several wildflowers by eating an expendible part of the seed and discarding the rest safely underground in their trash chambers. Did you know that stick insects have eggs that look like seeds? They also have a fatty, expendible part that the ants eat. The eggs also get discarded underground. The young stick insects hatch safely and leave the ant colony undisturbed. #aweek #ants #insects #stickinsects #natureclub #aisfor

Posted by Mel Grosvenor at 2021-05-24 18:50:53 UTC