Posted on 06/13/2025 1:21:40 PM PDT by Red Badger
Here is the actual article.
I wish these articles about the research would say what the original articles are.
“Am I doing this right” was mine.
I’ve often thought ants were part of the BORG. But then I found out they use farts to create their collective. Hmmmm...
Rammstein - Links 2 3 4 (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/Ph-CA_tu5KA?si=XstvIlUssKY55wAB
Telepathy?......…...
Chemical secretions.
I’m not crazy about ants.
Much like democrats but without the intelligence.
See any riot they stage.
I know this is now buried and no one else will come and read this, but this is very cool and I have an Ant “intelligence” story to share with you Badger.
Decades ago the invasive plant “Sahara Mustard” appeared and started to take over the desert southwest. They were popping up everywhere and spreading like wildfire. They were impossible to control.
The way they propagate is they dry out after they mature and then blow around like tumbleweeds. The dried seed pods pop open and spread seeds as they bounce around. Any and every “Disturbed Soil” area was vulnerable for them to grow the next time the temp was correct and they got rain.
The only way to somewhat control them was to pull them or mow them while they were green before they dried out. If you waited until they dried out to deal with them then you were just making the propagation issue even worse in your local area.
Well I got busy one year and was not around to do this weeding on one of my lots like I should have and they grew and dried out. As I was walking through them cussing myself I heard some rustling sounds in the dried Mustard plants. It was perfectly still with zero breeze so it caught my attention right away.
I started to watch a couple of the plants and realized that local Ants had now found out what these new invasive plants were and that they could utilize them as a new source for their operations. As I watched I was blown away with the harvesting operation they had going on.
A collective group was planted in the tops of the dried plants and were cutting off the seed pods causing them to fall to the ground. Then on the ground was another crew that opened the pods. Then another crew collected the seeds and took off transporting the seeds towards their nest.
So they had a three stage operation happening, one crew dropping pods, another opening them, and a third transporting them back to the nest. And there was no wasted movements wandering around, they were on a very efficient and productive mission. One of the most amazing things I have personally seen yet in nature.
Anyhow about three years after introduction to our region and the ants discovering how to utilize these plants they started to disappear and grow less frequently. Now there are almost none in that area because these ants are keeping them abated. Nature had self policed it’s self...
I also observed a similar thing happen with Goathead sticker plants one time forty years ago. We had almost three weeks of steady rain. Because of this long soaking rain a Worm appeared that we had never seen before. Apparently the eggs had been dormant for who knows... Half a century or more maybe.
But it turned out these worms like to eat the center out of the green Goathead seeds. That one worm event had almost completely eradicated the Goathead problem. Where they used to grow like a green carpet on everyone’s bare land after a rain they are now very far and few in between.
The lesson I got from these events is that nature is amazing sometimes and has a way of self regulating it’s self with natural intelligence... So thank you for sharing this cool article. Because of my own experiences I dig this stuff. :)
That was the first commercial telegraph message ever sent in 1844. I can't take credit for it, though, that was some guy named Morse.
Thanks. I was quoting him.
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