And you thought humans had a Battle of the Sexes going....We ain't got nuthin' on certain fire ants! I'll be interested to find out if this is true of the invasive species in the US. I seem to recall that they are prone to just reproduce and have new queens join the current colony, rather than do a mass flight like regular ants. This could be the explanation for this behavior (assuming I am remembering right--I haven't looked it up).
Anyway, read the article at:
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050627/ ... 627-7.html
On a different ant subject, this is interesting, and I'd love to photograph it...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... _trap.html
and here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... sex_2.html
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That ant trap is quite interesting. We could learn something from that, maybe along the lines of warfare even.
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