Brotherhood of weavers

Does come to the World for a day and do not narrow if the first word comes from their mouths is "Take it to your ants." The ants in question can be a master queen weighing several salts. But if hiskine is added the weight of other queens along with empires around the world, it is equal to the weight of seven billion people who mix the midst in our planet. In addition, these queens and puppies live in quite regular, collaborative and broad communities for at least 50 million years; they develop strategic battle tactics with their army and are engaged in a wide range of activities, ranging from agriculture and livestock. We do what time we do? 10 thousand years? More...

I would suggest insecticide and photographer Mark Moffett for guidance of aliens. Mark discovered new types of ants and shocking ants for years spent in the forest. Now Australia, even when sitting in the rainforest in Queensland, he thinks that colon is a kind of organism, because it is not the only ants that lead to survival and evolved in time, as a whole of this social group. Imagine the colleague as a whole that resembles each member cell and performs special tasks such as organs with different functions.

On the top of our head, on the hills of the rainforest, this is moving forward to the perfect community like a dere. In other tropical and tropical six (subtrophic) forests, a single tree can share dozens of ants types. But one type is here, in Australia and south of Asia, the other is almost impossible to live together where the ants called Oecophylla, which are seen in some parts of Africa. This kind of long-leged and spear is that the huge areas of the forest hills have so aggressively seized, native people gave them the name of the tree ants. Or woven ants... Because among the branches, the leaves do nests on the football ball neck by planting together. Each weaver can have a number of slots from half dozen to 100. They can create a metropolis that connects outside of the city with districts.. In addition, the workers and soldiers who are spreading from the wood hills to the forest floor and are constantly informed of each other. They touch each other with their mouths, frontarms or antennas to communicate. It emits scent with different secretion glands to give different messages, if it is to quickly and wide areas, they shake more feromon to the air.

They exhibit even embolism behaviors: For example, they move their bodies as a kind of battle ritual, to notify an upcoming enemy. Experts look like communication between woven ants, a language variant with a primitive syntax. City planers examine the layout of ants. Mathematicians benefit from analysis of ants behavior to improve parallel calculation formulas where multiple problems are calculated simultaneously. Ants are used as a model in a wide range of research to solve how large and complex works are made with small parts and with minimal directives. How to start nest construction projects of woven ants, let's look at the bride. A worker extends to keep the tip of another leaf near the bottom of the leaf. If the distance in the interval is too long, a second worker climbs from the top of the first, and the ants at the bottom grasp the thin waist of the new incoming wire and extends it towards the goal. Haven’t? A third ants climb on the top of the other two and are removed from the right away. The ants added to each other create a live chain that resembles the arm of a construction crane. When reaching to the remote, the team always started to shoot the edges of the leaves, and usually create parallel chains and draw together with the nest friends that strengthen the ports. During the connection between workers leaves, they settle like live staples; the legs hold a leaf, jaws other leaf. Next? Waits. When the evening increases moisture, other workers come from the nests around. There are larvae in their hands to enter the pupa era and pass metamorphosis. [

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