Although it sounds like carpenter ants, you probably have acrobat ants. They are called acrobat ants because of the weird way they raise up their abdomen (the third body segment) when disturbed or threatened. Acrobat ants are also pretty easy to identify because that third body segment is heart-shaped.
The number one reason blamed for childhood deaths in America used to be accidents; now itâs cancer. Cancer is the leading cause of childhood death in the United States, with 13,500 new diagnoses each year according to the American Cancer Institute. One out of every 300 boys and one out of every 333 girls will develop cancer before their 20th birthday, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Although leukemia is the most common cause of death by disease in childhood, the chances of a child dying from leukemia are still very low â only about 1 in 10,000. Leukemia rates peak between the ages of 2 and 5 at around 9 cases per 100,000 per year and fall to a low of around 3 per 100,000 for young adults.