ants/termites protect their own delivery lines with guards

[Jaga]

look here how organized these creates are. With their own guards. it looks like a cold war:

[karl]

Jaga

Yes, it is as it is with nature, protection of the species by their own means. For as it appears,such with ants, termites and bees, they depend upon the group specialized efferts for each with their own for the protection of the whole. With this, at the expense of the few..

Good presentation, a reminder of what we as busy people needs be to remember from our long past school time..

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl,

I was always amazed by high organization of some of low groups of animals like insects. It is hard to imagine how they were able to perfect these skills.

[pieter]

Jaga/Karl,

In my youth I saw clashes between various ant colonies who had each their own ant hill (fortification). Often ants of hills close by wanted to capture the hill of another colony and that lead to huge clashes or ant wars.
You also have certain spieces of ants that are parasites and pray on other ant spiecies.


Ant hill like I saw in my youth in the Ardennes mountains. Each hill hat it's own ant colony or people.


Ant hill like I saw in my youth in the Ardennes mountains. Each hill hat it's own ant colony or people.


If you were exhuasted after a long walk and wanted to pause on a an elevation you had to take care that wasn't an ant hill, because you could get some nasty ant bites and turn red.

I was amazed how much of these black European little ants there were in these Ardennes forrests. And how organised, structured they are living in their ant hill system. Such an ant hill is like a huge building, a fortress
with the ant queen inside, baby rooms, food storages, workers and nurses. Everything has a purpose in the world of ants. And they could pick up larger insects or other little animals that are larger than them.

Cheers,
Pieter

www.britannica.com/animal/ant
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant

[Jaga]

Pieter,

these are huge mounts. I did not realize that they may move and fight and consolidate. So this was new for me. I though that the most aggressive aunt are somewhere in Amazon forest. But once in the past my apartment was invaded by ants in the middle on night in Texas. I had to flee to my then boyfriend. It was scary