Ants Nest Filled with Cement and Excavated

According to this cool video, ants built the equivalent of the Great Wall of China by moving tons of dirt. After filling the ant hill with cement it is excavated. Though the screen shot looks like a giant spider, the colored blobs are people standing in the structure.

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Now if I could just find out what this clip was from and where the colony is -- I would love to visit it.

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Posted By: gdanea - Thu Nov 11, 2010
Category: Insects and Spiders

Comments

Did the scientist get antsy waiting for the cement to harden?

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/11/10 at 11:53 PM

Not as much as the ants did, I imagine.

Posted by Dumbfounded on 11/12/10 at 06:47 AM

I agree, their fate was cast in concrete. It was a hard way to go but it was their paths that did them in.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/12/10 at 09:31 AM

True, but it was a good life on aggregate.

Posted by Dumbfounded on 11/12/10 at 10:02 AM

i hope it was an abandoned nest. amazing, and kinda creepy looking. great post. well atleast we have concrete evidence of how industrious ants really are. :cheese:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/12/10 at 10:32 AM

Information to build on.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/12/10 at 10:39 AM

i was hoping this was an abandoned ant hill and that's why the used it. can't tell though.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/12/10 at 01:40 PM

@Patty, I just re-watched w/ my grandson and there are ants in the concrete they were shooting in under pressure. And I don't think they could have used an abandoned ant hill. That complex of a structure would have needed constant maintenance to keep the tunnels clear. If the ants had gone for what ever reason, the tunnels would have collapsed.

BTW, the grandson thought it was totally kewl :coolsmile:

Posted by DM in a room with soft walls on 11/13/10 at 06:23 PM

thanks for the update dm. wow that seems pretty cruel.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/13/10 at 06:30 PM

Not by the ants, certainly.

Posted by Dumbfounded on 11/16/10 at 08:15 AM

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