BEAUTIFUL ANTS SAVE OUR PLANET- yet humans poured 10 tons of cement over an ant colony 4 simple study purposes- What do we tell our children folks? Ants gone/bees gone/animals slaughtered /birds destroyed/ What do we tell r God

u murdered all those ants over a billion with 10 tons of CEMENT?

Concrete Poured Into Ant Colony Reveals Massive Insect City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OcKjzhrJE

and..

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83775278/

Concrete was poured into an giant underground ant megalopolis, which acts as a mold. After the concrete hardened, scientists carefully excavated it to reveal the structure of the ant's elaborate "city-state":

Everything looks like it has been designed by an architect, a single mind, but of course that isn't true. This colossal and complex city was created by the collective will of the colony, the super organism.

COMMENT: (from a youth) Humans suck.

COMMENT: It's as if trillions and trillions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

u can tell from photos that ants were still there

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Cement is poured into a enormous ant colony (we'on the subject of talking 538 sq.feet across!) plus allowed to dry for a month. The anthill is then excavated to reveal the ants ...

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Pouring cement down a large ant hole, these researchers determine how large plus how the ant colony looks like.

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This enormous ant colony was discovered plus full with concrete, you will be astonished on what you see.

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A Enormous Ant Colony Excavation! A giant ant colony pumped full of cement,plus then excavated reveals one of Mother Natures magnificent wonders.

Concrete Poured Into Ant Colony Reveals Insect Megalopolis ... Concrete was poured into an giant subversive ant megalopolis, which acts as a mold.

Here's what happens when you fill an ant colony with concrete plus then dig the results. Apparently the segments is as of this longer film about ants:

TEXT. Ant Colony Excavation - See What Ant Colony Tunnels Look Like As of Poured Concrete

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ants save the planet

Reading Theodore Roosevelt's "The Winning of the West", one comes across this argument for the moral necessity of the American settlers' conquest of the territory long occupied by their human brethren:

All men of sane and wholesome thought must dismiss with impatient contempt the plea that these continents should be reserved for the use of scattered savage tribes, whose life was but a few degrees less meaningless, squalid, and ferocious than that of the wild beasts with whom they held joint ownership.

Disregard for a moment the picture of the be-spectacled amateur historian and future president astride a noble equine beast in a rakish sombrero and spurs, brandishing a shotgun--and think about the wild beasts, specifically, ants.

Ants are the world's most diverse and ecologically dominant eusocial [altruistic] organisms.

(Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants. Sean G. Brady, Ted R. Schultz, Brian L. Fisher, and Philip S. Ward, 2006)

They also evolved on the planet long before human-like mammals. They were here probably 180 million years before us, in fact. Over that time we were basically a statistical question-mark waiting for our genetic entry into earth ecology. More than a hundred million years before ants came on the scene the whole insect family had already incorporated metamorphosis into its trick-bag of survival tools, plants had adapted to northern and southern hemispheric conditions, and angiosperms had arrived giving plants the ability to flower. It makes the invention of the plow look a bit puny.

By the time humans began walking upright, everything else on earth looked essentially the way it does now. With a few exceptions. There have been at least five major mass extinctions before humans arrived, the most recent, 65 million years ago, was likely caused by an errant asteroid hitting the earth mid-latitude and wiping out the biggest mammals on the planet, dinosaurs, and over half the plants.

Here's how that event looked to scientists, based on fossil and other evidence: after the asteroid hit it took about ten years for the sulphuric acid released into the atmosphere to dissipate, reducing the amount of sunlight to about 10-20 percent of normal during that time. Most photosynthetic plant life was wiped out, but fungi and ferns gradually reappeared. Polar dinosaurs, able to withstand the cold temperatures brought on by lack of sunlight, still perished, indicating the lack of food, rather than lack of heat, killed them.

The other four major extinctions had variable causes, probable among them glaciation, volcanic eruptions, and supernova explosions. The main earth extinction events have occurred about every 60 to 100 million years. There is no rhyme nor reason to this frequency. But the next extinction may be very different from the previous ones. There is speculation by some, and in fact a majority of biologists believe that we are, in fact, in the middle of another extinction event. For it's probable cause we need look no further than in our bathroom mirrors.

While the "big five" earth extinctions happened over a long geologic timescale, taking millions of years to play out, the current extinction event is happening very rapidly - in tens and thousands of years. In the last fifty years, the rate of species extinction has accelerated to exceed the rate during the previous five extinction events. Estimates today are that up to 140,000 species disappear every year. The eminent biologist E.O. Wilson predicts that in the next 100 years, human activity could cause the extinction of over half the species living today.

And who will be left standing (or rooting) after the current extinction event? Well, in previous extinctions the die-out of species was to some extent selective, affecting mostly those species and genera that were least able to cope with the conditions brought on by the extinction event--cold temperatures or lack of sunlight (leading to lack of vegetation and thus lack of food). Rare, localized, and specialized species are probably most at risk of extinction, as shown by fossil studies of extinction events and their aftermath. Widespread or adaptable species are likely to survive.

One of the features of the most widespread species is social behavior. Social insects, for instance, account for more than half of all the world's insect "biomass" (a measure of total living weight versus total numbers of individuals). But only about 13,000 species out of a total of 750,000 insect species are social. Social insects - ants, wasps, bees - are the most common insects. All ants are not only social, they are eusocial - meaning they employ division of labor in reproduction, generations overlap, and they cooperate in the care and protection of young. Eusociality is a genetic trait, passed on from one generation of ants to the next. Worker ants who do not reproduce (are not able to reproduce) yet pass on more of their genes by caring for their sister ants with whom they share 80% of their genes than they would by having their own offspring, who would carry only 50% of their genes.

So, my point was? Just that the beasts of the earth may, by virtue of their longevity and social behavior, be better equipped than humans to sustain life on the planet. That the "scattered savage tribes" who lived here before us "civilized" humans may have been better equipped to sustain life on the planet, as hunter-gatherers instead of as industrial agriculturists. And any little ecological niche that you can protect from destruction, even the ones in your own backyard, are worthy of saving.

I will try to remember that the next time I am standing in a swarm of ants when turning the compost, or worrying about the paper wasp nest in the garage. Making or reserving a place for the bees or wasps or ants may be the best thing we can do for our planet.

http://godetia.com/dirt/closet/2007/07/can_ants_save_the_planet_1.html

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NOVA SCOTIA- CANADA

PROMISED LAND:  We could learn a lot from the busy ants

These critters work together on projects that sustain, ser ve their community

LIVING IN THE PROMISED LAND

RON MACINNIS

promisedland@herald.ca @RonMacInnis

If you think for a moment that you have nothing to learn from the ants that are asleep under the snow in our backyards, think again .

For they are there in rural Nova Scotia fields in their mounds in unbelievably huge numbers, wait­ing, as are you and I, for the first greens of spring to herald another season of sunshine and harvest.

There are not just millions of them , but trillions, if not gazil­lions (or whatever comes numer­ically next) in Nova Scotia. If you don’t believe me, ask the respec­ted biologist, E.O. Wilson. Get this: Wilson says that if you had a giant set of scales and you put all the mammals in a s quare kilo­metre of countryside on one side (that includes all of us, all our horses, cows, dogs, bunny rabbits, pussycats and their like), and then you took all the ants in that same square kilometre and put them on the other side of the scale, the ants wou ld outweigh us mammals by a factor of four to one. Whoa! Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

There are even those in scientif­ic circles who say that ants are so successful that they are poised to inherit the ear th if we humans make too much of a mess of it. I have heard the arguments on both sides. Reas on comes down in favour of the scientists. I wish it didn’t.

Why are ant societies so suc­cessful? (In scientific circles their social patterns are referred to as “eusocial" which come from the Greek “good" and “social.") What do these little creatures know that we don’t? As we face our uncer­tain future in rural Nova Scotia and the pervasive and overshad­owing influence of an uncertain world, we might do well to ask this qu estion .

I have wondered about this for a long time. As a kid I had a ter­rarium in my bedroom that I watched for hours on end (and a pet toad to clean up escapees). To this day, you might find me on my hands and knees, staring at a long line of marching ants as they build an enormously complicated underground city, the grandeur of which can only bring to mind in the human sphere the great pyr­amids of Egypt or perhaps the Great Wall of China.

Holy cow!

What might we learn here?

Look at them, the little mir­acles, carrying a gazillion grains of sand out the door or morsels of food back down the highway, each marching to the beat of some unwritten collective agreement working on a project that serves their community and provides b oth home and sustenance.

Mind you, I am not saying I would trade places with any one of them. Nor am I saying, worker ants, as everyone knows, being female, that it would be nice to live in a world where women did all the important work. There are days when I think they already do.

What I am saying is that these little critters have a few things figured out. And a few things to tell us. After all, they are one o f the most highly successful species on the planet.

And speaking of our planet, I recall having a thought one day that I share with you now.

What might happen, I wondered, if on a given day, each one of us took a lesson from the ants and we picked up and carried something of import out into our world for the benefit of our com­munity.

Something that would last for generations. Something that would benefit the least of us. The best of us. The rest of us. Something for which our children would thank us for in days to come.

What, I wondered, if that something were a random act of kindness? An act of love?

What if ? I wondered, as I watched the speed with which each of these little creatures helped change their corner of the world around them for the better.

What if ?

Why are ant societies so successful? ... What do these little creatures know that we don’t?

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Lear ning from the ants asleep under the snow in our backyards. RON MACINNIS 

http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenovascotian/1178814-promised-land-we-could-learn-a-lot-from-the-busy-ants

Ant

Formicidae

One of 10,000 species of ants, this leaf-cutter ant hauls a leaf more than three times its size back to the nest.

Photograph by Roy Toft

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities. More than 10,000 known ant species occur around the world. They are especially prevalent in tropical forests, where they may be up to half of all the insects living in some locations.

Ants look much like termites, and the two are often confused—especially by nervous homeowners. However, ants have a narrow "waist" between the abdomen and thorax, which termites do not. Ants also have large heads, elbowed antennae, and powerful jaws. These insects belong to the order Hymenoptera, which includes wasps and bees.

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants nest in wood and can be destructive to buildings. Some species, such as army ants, defy the norm and do not have permanent homes, instead seeking out food for their enormous colonies during periods of migration.

Ant communities are headed by a queen or queens, whose function in life is to lay thousands of eggs that will ensure the survival of the colony. Workers (the ants typically seen by humans) are wingless females that never reproduce, but instead forage for food, care for the queen's offspring, work on the nest, protect the community, and perform many other duties.

Male ants often have only one role—mating with the queen. After they have performed this function, they may die.

Ants communicate and cooperate by using chemicals that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus, or insects. However, some species have diets that are more unusual. Army ants may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals.

One Amazon species (Allomerus decemarticulatus) cooperatively builds extensive traps from plant fiber. These traps have many holes and, when an insect steps on one, hundreds of ants inside use the openings to seize it with their jaws.

Another species, the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), is capable of forming so-called supercolonies that house multiple queens. On Australia’s Christmas Island, the accidental introduction of yellow crazy ants in the early 20th century has led to a destructive infestation. The ants are a significant threat to the island’s endemic population of red crabs, which are displaced by the ants from their burrows or killed as they pass through ant nest sites during the crabs' large-scale annual migration from the forest to the coast.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/ant/

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Ants: Nature's Secret Power

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In this documentary we will be transported into the world of ants through the eyes of Bert Hölldobler, a world authority on these amazing animals.

What animal has achieved immortality? What animal is the most warlike? What animal has the greatest supercity on the planet? Not man but ants.

They are the real success story. It is only their tiny size and our vanity that allows us to hold onto the myth of our supremacy. Ants rule the planet. They are found in more habitats from far northern Finland to the sweltering tropics.

The largest colony known of these insects is in Japan, where 306 million ants, with 1 million queens, in 45,000 colonies spread over 270 hectares.

The fiercest warriors on earth are the slave maker ants. Other ants have barracks and sentry posts to protect themselves against surprise attack.

Bert Hölldobler, friend of world renowned scientist Edward Wilson, is a world authority on these amazing animals. He has dedicated his life, traveling around the world, to understand them.

Through his eyes and his words we will be transported into the world of the ants. A world more wonderful and bizarre than any science fiction. "Ants" will reveal this alien world for the first time, in the company of a true authority and enthusiast.

Watch the full documentary now

 

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ants-natures-secret-power/

Facts about Ants
Ants could leave humans behind when it comes to organization and team work! What makes these tiny yet industrious creatures special? There are quite a few reasons, as you will soon find out!

Did you know...
...that despite having 5 eyes, most ants have pretty poor vision? They have two compound eyes, and three tiny ones on top of their head. The compound eyes help in motion detection, while the three tiny ones, called ocelli, help in determining the intensity and polarization of light. Very few ants have excellent vision, while some ants are blind. What a waste of eyes!

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Hymenoptera
Suborder Apocrita
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Formicidae
It is believed that ants first appeared during the Cretaceous period and that they evolved from the wasps that were existing during the Jurassic period. A quick look at some of the more popular species of ants, and then onto some rather interesting facts about these fascinating creatures...
Interesting Facts about Ants

➤ Ants are extremely good at adapting to various climatic conditions as is evident by the fact that they are one of the longest surviving species. They have been around for the past 150 million years, and by the looks of it, seems like they are set for another 150 million!

➤ Over 12000 known species of ants exist in the world. Experts conjecture that there are approximately 12000 species yet to be identified and named.

➤ Ants are very intelligent beings. It is usual for humans to train animals, but in case of ants, it has been noticed that older ants train the younger ants in whatever task they are supposed to do. The only instance when an animal has been known to train another of its own kind!

➤ A few species of ants have "trap-jaws" which can only be described as "super jaws". These jaws can snap shut at tremendous speeds (records show 140mph!), in fact, the fasted amongst all animals. They use it as catapults, as well as to fling themselves in the backward direction.

➤ Ants can run at amazing speeds. To give you an idea, if an ant was the size of a horse, it would be able to run as fast as a racehorse!

➤ Some ants are given the job of looking after the queen's eggs, and they do it diligently! Every morning these ants pick up the larvae and put them in the topmost chamber of the anthill to keep them warm, while every night they move them to the lowermost chamber so that they do not freeze!

➤ When the queen bee flies off to start her own colony, she collects sperm from different males. She needs as many as 2 - 3 million sperms to start a new colony!

➤ They are pretty colorful creatures. They appear in shades of green, red, and brown. Some species also exhibit blue and purple colors, while a few tropical ant species have a metallic shine.

➤ Ants normally range from 2 to 7 mm in length. The carpenter ant is an exception to the rule, as it can stretch to 2 cm, or even an inch.

➤ Adult ants are unable to swallow solid food. They depend on the juice they are able to squeeze out from pieces of food. This liquid food is also passed on to the larvae.



➤ Some worker ants are given the responsibility of guarding the queen. They act as the queen's personal bodyguards.

➤ One of the largest species of ant is the Giant Forest Ant (Camponotus gigas). The soldiers of this species grow as long as 28 - 30mm. Also, the ants of this species engage in ritual battles which can continue for months!

➤ An ant's antenna is a multipurpose device. It can be used to touch things to know what they are, as well as to smell things!

➤ So helpful are these creatures, that they eat for each other! Well, almost. They have two stomachs, one for themselves and the other to store food that they can share with other ants! They also have a tiny pocket in their mouths in which they can store food for other ants!

➤ An ant has the largest brain amongst insects. It is said that the processing power of an ant's brain and a Macintosh II computer might be similar.

➤ It is the sting of the ant that is painful rather than the bite. Most ants have slightly venomous stings. Fire ants are most feared, because they have extremely venomous stings which can cause severe itching.

➤ Ants are mostly omnivorous, that is, they eat other insects, seeds, oils and bread.



➤ An ant can lift about 20 times its own body weight. But that is an average estimate. Some ants can even carry loads 50 times their body weight!

➤ The life span of ants increases according to the hierarchy. Since the fertile males are at the lowest rung (their only job being that of providing sperm to the queen), they live only for a few weeks. Worker ants are a little higher up, so they live for 2 - 3 years. Queen ants live the longest, with a lifespan of almost 25 - 30 years!

➤ Not all ant colonies have to have a queen. Some colonies function without one, while some others have more than one queen. If the queens do not think they can co-exist peacefully, one queen will leave the colony along with a few worker ants to start her own colony.

➤ A Tropical Leafcutter ant uses its sharp outer jaw to cut leaves and make them into pulp. The pulp is later used to make fungus gardens. These gardens are looked after and harvested for food. So just to burst our bubble, we humans did not invent farming. Ants did it way before us.



➤ Worker ants are further categorized into subsets based on the work they are allotted. Some are given the job of constructing the nest, some are given the responsibility of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting it into the rubbish dump, while some are supposed to teach the newer breed food gathering tactics.

➤ Some ants (soldier ants) are given the task of guarding the nest, protecting it from predators, and warning the others about impending danger. These ants use the technique of vibrations to warn others. They will bang their heads against the walls of the nest, and the vibrations created because of the banging warn the others who are inside, about the approaching danger.

➤ The soldier ants have modified heads to help them with their job. They can block the entrance to their colonies by putting their heads in them, and only allow their fellow worker ants to enter!

➤ When a worker ant finds a source of food, it leaves a trail of scent to attract other ants in the colony to it. Since ants have poor vision, they rely heavily on this trail of scent to guide them to the food.

➤ Leafcutter ants are threatened by a parasite which lays eggs in the crevices of their head. So what do they do when they go out? They carry smaller ants on their heads, whose only work is to fend off any attacks from this nasty parasite. Talk about looking out for each other!

➤ Each colony of ants have their own unique smell. If an ant leaves it colony, it will lose the smell of that colony after a few days, and will be treated as an enemy if it returns after that. Any ant that does not have the smell of a colony will be treated as an enemy by that colony and attacked!



➤ Leafcutter ants rank second only to humans, when it comes to forming intricate and huge societies. They can build 100m wide nests in a matter of a few years! And they live in societies containing 8 - 10 million individuals. The images above show anthills and an ant nest. You can see the size of the hills for yourself!

Random Trivia about Ants
★ Antarctica is the only continent which has no ants.

★ While some species of ants are totally blind, others have vision sharp enough to detect objects that are a meter away.

★ Queen ants are born with wings in most species. These queen ants grow up and leave to form their own colonies. That is the only time they will fly, as their wings fall off after their flight.

★ One species of ants, Mycocepurus smithii, is an all female species. That's right, they don't need no males! 

★ Ants follow the barter system! They form deals with some specific plants and animals. The deal is that the plant or animal should provide food to the ants in return for protection. Ants protect the plants by fending off herbivores which feed on the plants, and destroy other parasitic plants which try to attach to the host plant. Same is the case with animals.

★ Ants are so organized, they have a "department" which takes care of their dead friends, and disposes their bodies, to keep their colony clean! This department consists of worker ants and is called the necrophory department.

★ Army ants from South America are nomadic in nature, with rare instances of settling in one place. Even these usually last a very short time. During these rare times they make a temporary nest, by simply holding each other close and tight!

★ According to statistics, there are about 1½ million ants per human on Earth! This is the reason that the total mass of all ants on Earth almost equals the total mass of humans on Earth!

★ Ants, as well as their larvae, are considered delicacies in many parts of the world, and they can be very expensive since they are so hard to catch! Roasted and toasted ants especially, are quite popular.

★ Slavery is practiced in a few species of ants! The Slave-Maker ant (Polyergus Rufescens) is so named because it raids the nest of other ants and steals their pupae. Once the pupae hatch, they are made to work as slaves within the colony.

Ants are famed for having the largest brain amongst insects. They sure utilize this advantage, since other than humans, such complex behavior is hardly observed in any species! Not just that, their complex behavior has inspired humans to apply their proficiencies in the study of biometrics, robotics, computers and in developing complex problem-solving algorithms. Way to go, ants!

Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-ants.html