viktorvaughn
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I just read the Wikipedia entry and half of it is like stuff from science-fiction movies.
Warrior ants doing raids on other colonies to get eggs to grow into slaves as they can't even feed themselves cos of their massive mandibles, leafcutter ants harvesting stuff to bring back to their nests where it rots and becomes fertiliser for a specific type of fungus they feed on that only grows in those conditions, ants being over-fed so their bodies become distended with goodness, turning them into living food silos for the other ants in time of famine, colonies of a million ants taking over whole gardens, bullet ants, bulldog ants, fire ants.
Ants make up more biomass in the world that all vertebrates put together! 15-20% of world biomass.
Wow. It's all so ripe for sci-fi and horror stuff.
Warrior ants doing raids on other colonies to get eggs to grow into slaves as they can't even feed themselves cos of their massive mandibles, leafcutter ants harvesting stuff to bring back to their nests where it rots and becomes fertiliser for a specific type of fungus they feed on that only grows in those conditions, ants being over-fed so their bodies become distended with goodness, turning them into living food silos for the other ants in time of famine, colonies of a million ants taking over whole gardens, bullet ants, bulldog ants, fire ants.
Ants make up more biomass in the world that all vertebrates put together! 15-20% of world biomass.
Wow. It's all so ripe for sci-fi and horror stuff.