these the ant breathes. The sections of 
armor move apart and together, just as 
an accordion does. This movement lets 
air into the body, and then squeezes it 
out. It is just like breathing from the 
hips! 
On each side of the head are many 
eyes, bunched together like pinheads on 
a pin cushion. But the ant cannot roll 
them up and down or from side to side. 
It cannot move them at all. In fact, it 
cannot even see very well with them. 
Some kinds of ants cannot see at all. 
Poor eyesight seems like a bad thing 
to us, for people depend more on sight 
than on any other sense. But that is 
not true of the ant. The ant depends 
mostly on touching and smelling things. 
On its head are two long feelers, which 
it uses to find out what is going on about 
it. It keeps touching the ground with 
them as it runs along, feeling its way 
much as we do with our fingers in the dark. 
