H2oDunc Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilHarries Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 We are definately lucky ants are not the size of dogs. Or even bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuibeachcomber Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2oDunc Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymruambyth1 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Where's the one on the right off to? Lazy b@stard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiejosh Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2oDunc Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossfinn Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumball Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teletiger Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave111223 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 With humans it's the other way around. 1 Person lifting the biscuit and 9 people sitting watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johna Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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