#antsareawesome — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #antsareawesome, aggregated by home.social.
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Fungus foils invading hordes of crazy ants, and that’s great for Texas - Enlarge / Tawny crazy ants (Nylanderia fulva) feeding on a cricket. (cr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1843835 #invasivespecies #antsareawesome #crazyants #science #biology #ecology #fungi
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Tiny Jenga: Ants can sense which soil grains to remove when digging tunnels - Enlarge / Two ants tunneling in green gel. A new Caltech study found that ants se... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1789021 #granularmaterials #antsareawesome #engineering #anttunnels #science #biology #physics
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Divided, we fall: How ant behavior mimics political polarization - Enlarge / Studying how ants organize division of labor within a colony can lend insight into how po... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1642303 #politicalpolarization #computationalecology #collectivebehavior #politicalscience #divisionoflabor #antsareawesome #socialsciences #science #biology
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Study: Ants are “immune” to traffic jams - Enlarge / Black ants marching along the stem of a leaf. Unlike humans, ants don't experience traffi... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1590473 #collectivebehavior #antsareawesome #trafficjams #science #physics #ants