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Ants Mimic Mecca Pilgrimage

Duncan Riley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:55:03 +0000

Conspiracy nuts have something new to fear: Islamic forces all around us, at our feet. To be precise, Islamic ants, well at least maybe when you watch this video titled “Ants Mimic Mecca Pilgrimage.”

Amazing: ants devour a gecko

Duncan Riley — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:39:48 +0000

Take one dead gecko. Mix with ants. Follow with video footage at high speed and you get a video of ants devouring a gecko. Perhaps not the most exciting thing we’ve posted, but it’s still fairly amazing.

Holy Crap! Billions of ants in one colony

Steven Hodson — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:51:24 +0000

One of the largest ant colonies ever discovered to date stretches over 4,000 miles across Europe and is estimated to number in the billions of ants. The colony shown in the video below; and the picture above, is approximately 500 square feet in size and goes 25 feet into the ground.

In order to be able to see exactly how a colony structure is made up the scientists filled the colony with concrete – 10 tons of it. It took almost a month before they could actually start excavating the site in order to see how it was constructed.

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[hat tip to WebEcoist]

Ants Overtake Texas Electronics

JR — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:54:59 +0000

Have you seen this? Apparently, billions of ants are taking over Houston and shorting out the city’s computers and electronics.

The ants seem to have arrived in a cargo ship, according to reports by the Associated Press. Now, they’re everywhere — getting into homes and businesses and messing all sorts of stuff up.

The ants are known as “paratrenicha species near pubens” — uh, yeah — and are related to the breed known more simply as “crazy ants.” Scientists don’t know why they’re attracted to electronic equipment, but the little fellas do seem to enjoy lunching on a good cable or two.

What a mess.

Image: Houston Chronicle