Mike McCaffrey 
Safe to say that the slice of orange I gave our house #ants are a big hit.
apiechaPainting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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KimberleyThere’s an ant party going on in some old dead leaves on my alchemilla mollis plant
the roamerRemarkable. The ants in their combat behaviour actively realise set-theoretical counting principles, and by doing that, they realise a strategy that is mutually advantageous for both colonies and thus beneficial for the species. Brilliant & enchanting.
I was gloomy a moment ago, but having seen your post I am all cheered up! :-) Whatever else happens, something is deeply right with the world if deep mathematical structures emerge from ant behaviour!
Your beautiful account is the most Mastodonian of all Mastodon accounts. Tooting for enlightenment and joy. Thank you.
#ants #GeorgCantor #RichardDedekind #SunTzu #strategy #TetramoriumImmigrans
Valentin LechevalArticle by @sandor_piross on our work in the group of @elva
"[Ants] live in complex societies where the functioning of a colony relies on tightly organised logistical networks. These networks are structured around key resources and must be both efficient and resilient to disturbances. Wood ants (Formica lugubris) are particularly fascinating in this respect, as they operate genuine transport networks in forest ecosystems."
https://ecolres.hun-ren.hu/en/when-a-key-resource-disappears-what-wood-ant-networks-can-teach-us/
d'aïeux et d'ailleursEt beh, ça s'est vachement améliorer la disponibilité des rendez-vous pour des cartes d'identité ou passeports !
(En vrai : grave pas. J'ai l'impression de prendre rdv chez un spécialiste - mais sans avoir une vue d'ensemble de type doctolib)
hell \ Rebekah Hellberg
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Dread Pirate (Tom) Roberts
Anthony HortonThe laundry ant colony has at least given me something interesting to point my cheapo USB microscope at.
Lots of workers looking after the larvae, some callows, and a few alates.
The bright light from the USB microscope clearly agitated them, which suggests to me I might be able to persuade them to move the brood out of the linen press by opening the doors, taking out the linen, and thereby denying them the darkness that they need to feel that the brood is safe. I'm sure they'd only move as far as the nearest dark nook or cranny, but that would still be a move in the right direction.