Everybody has lived with ants in the house or and the garden all his or her life. Wherever people live, ants live too, except in Antartica and a few islands, but how much do you really know about them?
Ants evolved from wasps about 120 million years ago and later, as plant life started to diversify, ants diversified and specialized as well. We do not know how many species of ants there are, but it is reckoned that there are about 22,000. Of those, 12,500 odd have been classified, so there is still a fantastic deal that we do not know about ants.
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