Cool video of a 538 square foot ant colony

wow !!!!

I was amazed at this when I first saw it on TV a while ago. It's still amazing.

I wonder what they did with the structure once it was uncovered? Was it dis-assembled and moved to a museum somewhere?

That's amazing research...but it's sad they killed all the ants.

The few moving around all lost on the cast of their home, dying, were sad.

What a structure, though!!!

Makes me want to do that to a termite mound...

I'm not sure about that one, I've read that they waited for it to be abandoned, but I also saw ants in the video while they were pouring (and the guy who cracked open the acorn didn't seem to mind doing that to their house).

Didn't look abandoned to me.....unless the ants got sick of all the people and moved their queen and all? What a job!!

That acorn one was sad!!!!


Unless....if he put it down, and they could get their queen and babies quickly to another home, they might have been ok.

I mean, the queens start the whole thing off all on their own....dig a hole, and lay eggs, and feed the babies to start with and all.

I'd love to see the structure set up in a museum, or art gallery, or something.

Looks like an alien city from one of the more organic sci fi artists.

If the ants were there, it's be an ant Pompeii.

And just think, these structures (or similar structures on a smaller scale) are probably all over the place. Every back yard probably has at least one similar structure only on a smaller scale.

That was absolutely amazing. Thanks for posting it.

That really was amazing. Makes me think of all the cities under every step we take.

Re the ants being displaced, I heard they were transported to FEMA trailers.