TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe
I wonder if they have some sort of deep under-sea network that allows access to other continents or if they just recognize a common pheromone etc from their cousins who hitched a boat etc to a new home
And that is why we need an Ant Man to stop an invasion. /s
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TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe | Spyke
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I wonder if they have some sort of deep under-sea network that allows access to other continents or if they just recognize a common pheromone etc from their cousins who hitched a boat etc to a new home
The latter
Ants are neat.
This is really cool.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230705154253/http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm
https://archive.is/20131106033132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm
Man, archive.org keeps surprising me. Thank you!
And that is why we need an Ant Man to stop an invasion. /s