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While ant nests differ greatly, when you crack one open, you’ll most likely find lots of workers (the ants we most often see in the “real world”), a queen (many species have several queens), and a white pile of eggs and babies. Photo Gallery - Ant architecture Most ants carry out the trash and their dead, piling it in their own ant graveyards/dumps, called midden piles. Like any good detective, you can learn many things from going through an ant’s trash. If you find a midden pile, you can get a good idea of what the ants have been eating and whether or not the ants are sick or at war with other ants. You’ll probably discover bits of seeds and insect head capsules stuffed in with dead ants. When tremendous numbers of dead ants litter the piles, it’s likely the colony is sick or warring with other ants. Back inside the nest, the ants busy themselves with their daily anty lives. You can take some cookie crumbs and call them out to you. See how they sniff the earth with their antennae, each one a living being experiencing the world, doing its special job. Watch them communicate, following one another under blades of grass and around pebbles, stopping every now and again to touch one another’s faces, clean their legs, investigate their surroundings. Ants saturate our environment, from our homes to the sidewalks, city streets, and forests spread all around us. They are our neighbors, our friendly fellow citizens working away as we work. It’s time we introduce ourselves. Most folks recognize these sandy desert mounds as a typical ant nest. But ants build their homes in an amazing variety of structures and places. - © Alex Wild 21
2 Carpenter Ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus One of New York's largest and friendliest ants, black carpenter ants lumber through your lumber. Photo by Alex Wild
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Page 44 and 45: Meet the Crazy Ant Crazy relatives.
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Meet the Acrobat Ant One summer, I
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Predation and Parasitism of the Soy
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