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Huge Colony Of Ants Takes Over the Planet
Anorak News —
... THE summer new brings with it stories of killer bugs that spends all day dreaming up new ways to kill Britishers. Today, the BBC brings news of a single “mega-colony of ants” that has “colonised much of the world”. ...
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Ant Mega-Colony Covers Half The Planet [Insect Overlords]
io9 —
... Researchers in Japan and Spain led by Eiriki Sunamura of the University of Tokyo found that Argentine ants living in Europe, Japan and California shared a strikingly similar chemical profile of hydrocarbons on their cuticles . . . "The enormous extent of this population is paralleled only by human society," the researchers write in the journal Insect Sociaux, in which they report their findings. The real question is, do the ants have a plan? via BBC News
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Ants: Rulers of the World
Neatorama —
... Researchers in Japan and Spain have made an interesting discovery: the Argentine ant, originally native to South America, is now found on every continent except Antartica thanks to humans. This super colony may be the biggest of its kind in the insect world. Even more fascinating is that these super colonies that thrive across Europe, America, and Japan, may in fact be one mega colony.
But it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.
The team selected wild ants ...
Collected Thoughts 07-09-09
Classical Geek Theatre —
... Wal-Mart's Twitter account comes with a 3,379-word Terms of Use agreement. Holy fucking loly. Thomas Jefferson's Green Hornet secret decoder message. Ants have achieved global domination. Cripes. We're all fucked. Oh god. I can see forever. Politics, etc... Osama bin Laden was in Indianapolis once! This interview is pretty much in-line with my own personal take on god and religion: the moneyquote: "I ...
