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Tales from the Ant World
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Oddly enough, I wasn't aware of ants as stinging insects. I thought they just bit. This explains why, when brushing up against an ant covered hollyhock plant by the back gate, and getting covered with angry ants, it felt like I was getting stung. At the time I thought gee, they sure are agressive biters. And maybe they were - not all ants sting, and I didn't spend a lot of time checking them out.
Initially I was going to downgrade this book because it was a series of not particularly connected anecdotes - but then I remembered the title, and it made perfect sense.
By the way, I read a hard copy. Not the kindle edition. When will I learn to look at the details before I post?
Great information on ants. As another reviewer mentioned, ant colonies assign tasks based on age. All workers are female. The youngest look after the larvae. The "middle aged" do the foraging. If the colony has to wage war on a neighbouring colony, they send the oldest, unlike humans who sacrifice our youngest and strongest. Yep - ants send the old ladies. I mentioned this to my daughter and she said, "Makes sense - they can be pretty crusty."
So I was planning to spend the summer at our summer retreat looking at spiders, and now I'm fascinated by ants. Luckily, we have lots of both lol.
Good book. Nice to have 200 pages of wide spacing after reading 900 pages of fine print on American history. Still took me a few days.
Initially I was going to downgrade this book because it was a series of not particularly connected anecdotes - but then I remembered the title, and it made perfect sense.
By the way, I read a hard copy. Not the kindle edition. When will I learn to look at the details before I post?
Great information on ants. As another reviewer mentioned, ant colonies assign tasks based on age. All workers are female. The youngest look after the larvae. The "middle aged" do the foraging. If the colony has to wage war on a neighbouring colony, they send the oldest, unlike humans who sacrifice our youngest and strongest. Yep - ants send the old ladies. I mentioned this to my daughter and she said, "Makes sense - they can be pretty crusty."
So I was planning to spend the summer at our summer retreat looking at spiders, and now I'm fascinated by ants. Luckily, we have lots of both lol.
Good book. Nice to have 200 pages of wide spacing after reading 900 pages of fine print on American history. Still took me a few days.
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Petra It's a year now, still in a dark place
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Apr 26, 2021 08:34AM
I am endlessly fascinated by ants. I have stopped trying to get rid of them in the kitchen so I can watch them. I put down bits of food to see their reactions even! We dominate one side of the world, them the other, and in many of the same ways, it's so interesting. I have loads of ant books. I think the best one on my booklist is Leafcutter Ants.
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Petra, there is a great channel on Youtube called AntsCanada! He has many ant farms in tanks he builds himself and has recently even been documenting the going on of ants on his property. Fun to watch
