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Super Ant Colony Found in Europe
AP - Newsday ^ | 15 Apr 02 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

Posted on 04/15/2002 2:30:39 PM PDT by RightWhale

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON -- A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain.

It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded, according to Swiss, French and Danish scientists, whose findings appear in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

The colony consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that cooperate with one another.


(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Gardening; Society
KEYWORDS: cooperation; crevolist
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To: Charles Henrickson
"Don't cry for me, Argentine ants. . . ." LOL!
21 posted on 04/15/2002 10:51:51 PM PDT by SurferDoc
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To: Scully
Thanks!
22 posted on 04/16/2002 4:57:35 AM PDT by JudyB1938
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