Greetings all. Yesterday I was on my veranda just having a surf when something on the ground caught my eye. Now I,ve always been a dog man but the Ex mrs H2o loved cats. Since she passed I seem to have suddenly acquired a couple of strays so have taken to feeding them. They get the odd tin of cat food, they love spare rib bones and the bones from chicken wings but their staple diet is the dry cat food / biscuits.

So looking down I saw a couple of the cats biscuits slowly moving across the floor. Upon closer examination their was several small red ants heaving the biscuits back to their nest. All in all they moved 6 spilt biscuits over a distance of about 4-5 metres. The co operation and the sheer strength was amazing! Nature at its best

We are definately lucky ants are not the size of dogs.

Or even bigger.

Greetings all. Yesterday I was on my veranda just having a surf when something on the ground caught my eye. Now I,ve always been a dog man but the Ex mrs H2o loved cats. Since she passed I seem to have suddenly acquired a couple of strays so have taken to feeding them. They get the odd tin of cat food, they love spare rib bones and the bones from chicken wings but their staple diet is the dry cat food / biscuits.

So looking down I saw a couple of the cats biscuits slowly moving across the floor. Upon closer examination their was several small red ants heaving the biscuits back to their nest. All in all they moved 6 spilt biscuits over a distance of about 4-5 metres. The co operation and the sheer strength was amazing! Nature at its best

i believe the pharoahs used to make the jewish people do the same thing until joseph sorted them out

As PH says to imagine ants the size of dogs!, we would be in trouble here in Thailand.

Im now looking into building an ant farm. I'll up load some photo's when its up and running

Where's the one on the right off to?

Lazy b@stard

Where's the one on the right off to?

Lazy b@stard

They are in fact Burmese red ants. The one on the right is Thai.

Where's the one on the right off to?

Lazy b@stard

They are in fact Burmese red ants. The one on the right is Thai.

Rolf,

Yup thats the one co ordinating.

Believe it or not but that one just ran about the rest and didn't join in with the heavy work. Having been reading about ants since they have a very structured system of work in the nest As said I'm going tomorrow to get the materials for an ant nest. Its something to keep me out of the bar

Where's the one on the right off to?

Lazy b@stard

They are in fact Burmese red ants. The one on the right is Thai.

Just make sure you do not get a few Thai ants thrown in , it will take for ever to get the nest assembled and parts of it will be of sub-standard construction/and/or materials .

Greetings all. Yesterday I was on my veranda just having a surf when something on the ground caught my eye. Now I,ve always been a dog man but the Ex mrs H2o loved cats. Since she passed I seem to have suddenly acquired a couple of strays so have taken to feeding them. They get the odd tin of cat food, they love spare rib bones and the bones from chicken wings but their staple diet is the dry cat food / biscuits.

So looking down I saw a couple of the cats biscuits slowly moving across the floor. Upon closer examination their was several small red ants heaving the biscuits back to their nest. All in all they moved 6 spilt biscuits over a distance of about 4-5 metres. The co operation and the sheer strength was amazing! Nature at its best

i believe the pharoahs used to make the jewish people do the same thing until joseph sorted them out

Made them eat cat food?

Regards

With humans it's the other way around.

1 Person lifting the biscuit and 9 people sitting watching.

Greetings all. Yesterday I was on my veranda just having a surf when something on the ground caught my eye. Now I,ve always been a dog man but the Ex mrs H2o loved cats. Since she passed I seem to have suddenly acquired a couple of strays so have taken to feeding them. They get the odd tin of cat food, they love spare rib bones and the bones from chicken wings but their staple diet is the dry cat food / biscuits.

So looking down I saw a couple of the cats biscuits slowly moving across the floor. Upon closer examination their was several small red ants heaving the biscuits back to their nest. All in all they moved 6 spilt biscuits over a distance of about 4-5 metres. The co operation and the sheer strength was amazing! Nature at its best

i believe the pharoahs used to make the jewish people do the same thing until joseph sorted them out

I thought that was Moses who led the chosen people out of Egypt