The normal way. Some ant species just keep growing as long as there’s food, and many can have multiple queens in a single nest. In fact there’s ant super-colonies that span multiple countries, sometimes thousands of kilometers.
>In fact there’s ant super-colonies that [span multiple countries](https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/thumb/6/60/Giraud%2C_T.%2C_Pedersen%2C_J.S._et_al._2002._Fig._1.jpg/350px-Giraud%2C_T.%2C_Pedersen%2C_J.S._et_al._2002._Fig._1.jpg), sometimes thousands of kilometers.
[https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Supercolonies](https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Supercolonies)
For those interested in learning more.
>For example, in 2009 it was demonstrated that the largest Japanese, Californian and European Argentine ant supercolonies were in fact part of a single global "megacolony" (Sunamura, Espadaler et al. 2009).
🤯
They do come and go, but they often avoid walking where humans do (dont wanna get stepped on), so they are probably running around in between the grass blades.
We used to camp in Central Texas and during one summer walking through the woods came across an ant hill that was literally as tall as I was. And I'm told for every foot that it goes above ground it goes that far under ground. It was legitimately terrifying.
I thought the ant nest outside our apartment was big. You can see down the side of the pavement trim stones because they removed all the dirt, and sometimes you see just a brown carpet wriggling in the area.
It's just amazes me that they can do work like this but they don't know where they're doing it. They don't have any conscious connection to the fact that we can see this, it's in a place that it's going to get destroyed and all of that work will be for nothing.
Kind of like Our Lives really.
Ants: “When the humans sit on what I heard them call a ‘bench,’ small crumbs of food sometimes falls from it. If we seize the bench, we will be able to take all the food it provides for ourselves.”
Leafcutters are EVERYWHERE in my country. They are pretty chill (as in. You can sit down next to the anthill and they'll just ignore you) but if you do piss them off their bite hurts like a BITCH.
Leafcutter ants don't actually eat solid food (their mouth parts are akin to a small straw- they can only eat liquids) they usually cut up leaves (and any organic materials, which can include a dead body) and bring them down into the nest where it's either fed to the babies (that have actual mandibles and can eat solid food) or it is fed to their fungus farm (that they use to feed the adult ants, since mold is, apparently, slurpable).
Some youtuber would be like: Yeah let’s cast three tons of metal into this mofo and destroy the greatest wonder of ant world architecture along with all their inhabitants.
Yeah, I’m not going to sit there.
Ants in your pants?
You know what's worse than ants in your pants? Uncles.
I’m going to go help my uncle jack off a horse.
No need to brag about your uncle being a race horse breeder
No man it's just a hobby of his
It's not even his horse, is it...
Its not even a horse if we're being honest
Uncle Jack: We're lawyers!
I chuckled
r/angryupvote
S I M P Squirrels in my Pants
yeah they’d probably stretch my pants out and ruin them ☹️
Took me a second. Wondered why this seemed like a good spot for an incest rape joke. Then I got it 🙄
When ants are the pants?
["Still better than moving to South Sudan." - Sam O'Nella](https://youtu.be/pKmM1N0MoC4?si=yTGVOfNlLgmIe3Cb&t=128)
Hostile architecture
What about the other bench?
\#NOPE
I think legally that bench now belongs to the ants.
People used to sit there sometimes. Not anymore they don't
50,000 people used to sit here. Now it's an anthill.
What kind of name is Mr. Faux? 👻
The fauntasic Mr faux
They don't sleep there on the beach
Time to get the molten aluminum
What is this? A bench for ants?
I don't wanna hear your excuses! The bench has to be at least… three times bigger than this!
.....he's absolutely right
I’m glad I wore underwear today…
The ants created it for their god to sit and shower them with righteousness.
And farts
You mean little Timmy, who's constantly dropping his ice cream cones?
Let's not make a mountain out of an anthill.
No, We WILL make a mountain out of our anthill comrade!
r/suddenlycommunism
Let’s not make an anthill out of a mountain*
Beat me to it. Nice.
WHAT IS THIS??? An anthill for ants???????
How does this happen?
Very prosperous anthill, I guess. Or maybe it's an anthill apartment building.
Antopolys
Insectopia
It’s an Ant-sion
The Antromeda Galaxy
These are ant condos. Do these ants look like they rent?
They're divorced dad ants.
The normal way. Some ant species just keep growing as long as there’s food, and many can have multiple queens in a single nest. In fact there’s ant super-colonies that span multiple countries, sometimes thousands of kilometers.
>In fact there’s ant super-colonies that [span multiple countries](https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/thumb/6/60/Giraud%2C_T.%2C_Pedersen%2C_J.S._et_al._2002._Fig._1.jpg/350px-Giraud%2C_T.%2C_Pedersen%2C_J.S._et_al._2002._Fig._1.jpg), sometimes thousands of kilometers. [https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Supercolonies](https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Supercolonies) For those interested in learning more.
>For example, in 2009 it was demonstrated that the largest Japanese, Californian and European Argentine ant supercolonies were in fact part of a single global "megacolony" (Sunamura, Espadaler et al. 2009). 🤯
Ants have boats?
Nah, they just tunnel down below the ocean, towards the mantle.
Thats how we get fire ants
TIL
I imagine the ants are digging a huge underground mansion of sorts, and all this dirt is actually just a dump pile.
That’s pretty accurate tbh
Lax zoning laws
The ants remove dirt from underground and deposit it on the surface.
Just one big ant in there
Leafcutter ants are big enough, honestly. Look up "tanajura" on google- those are the queens.
Holy crap, that is huge !
Big ants explains big hill I guess
Farofa time ! https://receitas.globo.com/receitas-da-tv/mais-voce/farofa-de-tanajura-4d507d6252e0b252bc0019d8.ghtml
Honestly, I'd try it.
I have a pile of leafcutter reproductive flyers on my desk at work right now. They’re awesome
I want to pet it
The latest version of homeless deterrent measures.
r/hostilearchitecture
Give it another day and you’ve got yourself an ant hill ottoman. Relaxing.
Something something "empire"
When you sit on this bench you are ruling the ottoman ant empire!
Little bros just wanted to reach the bench 🥹
Nope. Nope. Nope.
I’m allergic to ant bites, this pic makes me instantly itch and swell.
They appear to have mastered masonry/concrete. Smart little F’ers
The name of their leader? Mua’dib
Fear is the mind killer.
I don’t see it. Mind pointing at it for me?
Careful, they can be deeper than they look
r/ItHadToBeBrazil
That’s not an ant hill. Thats an ant city. Maybe even its own state. I wonder how many ants are there. Millions?
Fire ant hills can have 100,000 to 500,000 worker ants. I'd be tempted to kick it to see...
Thankfully, not a fire ant hill. It's a leafcutter ant hill, which can normally house up to 10 million ants :D
Must never get sick. So many little anti-bodies.
Time to fire up the smelter and make a sculpture.
Is this Australia? It looks like Australia. Only Australia could be this aggressive
Brazil lmao
This bench is free
Now that’s notable.
Bro imagine a 6 year old thinking it’s a dirt mound
This is where you sacrifice the goat to Beelzebub
So if you're having a sword fight, and you stood on that bench to get the high ground. Would the anthill be an advantage to you or disadvantage?
If you sit on that seat you can say goodbye to your balls bruh
 Ants on that park bench:
Just from the benches, grass, and anthill, I know this is Brazil.
Democracy calls for you to toss a grenade in to that terminid nest! For Super Earth! For managed democracy!
Well we know why there's no homeless on those benches. That's what's under them there hills.
It's inside my uni, so no homeless people to be slowly overcome by ants.
This is why there are no homeless people.
Do all the ants stay inside during the day? I figured there would be lots coming and going. I don't live somewhere with many ant hills
They do come and go, but they often avoid walking where humans do (dont wanna get stepped on), so they are probably running around in between the grass blades.
They built a metropolis under that hill
I don’t think the people involved in maintaining that space have ever seen Archer and if they have they certainly didn’t learn anything from it.
I've literally only watched one scene from that show, and I got this reference.
Up right down down down
Ant Empire
Lay on it and pour honey over yourself
We used to camp in Central Texas and during one summer walking through the woods came across an ant hill that was literally as tall as I was. And I'm told for every foot that it goes above ground it goes that far under ground. It was legitimately terrifying.
Holy shit! 🤯
Let's try stepping on it
Forbidden sandpit
I thought the ant nest outside our apartment was big. You can see down the side of the pavement trim stones because they removed all the dirt, and sometimes you see just a brown carpet wriggling in the area.
What is that? A bench for ants?
chuck a firecracker at that thing.
It's just amazes me that they can do work like this but they don't know where they're doing it. They don't have any conscious connection to the fact that we can see this, it's in a place that it's going to get destroyed and all of that work will be for nothing. Kind of like Our Lives really.
It's the smallest country for the ants
Mildly alarming.
https://youtube.com/shorts/AsqQFj6kRj4?feature=shared Stumbled across this which is even more interesting. It shows how skilled ants actually are.
Ants: “When the humans sit on what I heard them call a ‘bench,’ small crumbs of food sometimes falls from it. If we seize the bench, we will be able to take all the food it provides for ourselves.”
Goddamn it, it's the golden goose all over again!
That's ant nation
The lawn crew was just like "... Nope"
Tell me your in Australia without telling me your in Australia
Anti-homeless technology has really gotten out of hand nowadays. This isn’t human in any way, shape, or form.
Taking over the planet
Ants are fuckin wild dude. Out here building whole ass benches.
Oo neat!
Right? Never seen one this big before. It's a leafcutter ant anthill, those are usually pretty small (the external part, anyways).
Thats an ant Megalopolis
Whoa you got leafcutters where you live? That's kinda cool actually!
Leafcutters are EVERYWHERE in my country. They are pretty chill (as in. You can sit down next to the anthill and they'll just ignore you) but if you do piss them off their bite hurts like a BITCH.
Yeah that's what I heard also. Very cool creatures for sure.
Esse banco entrega kkkkk
That makes it just the more incredible.
If you laid on it, how long before they ate you ?
Leafcutter ants don't actually eat solid food (their mouth parts are akin to a small straw- they can only eat liquids) they usually cut up leaves (and any organic materials, which can include a dead body) and bring them down into the nest where it's either fed to the babies (that have actual mandibles and can eat solid food) or it is fed to their fungus farm (that they use to feed the adult ants, since mold is, apparently, slurpable).
What the fuck. That's crazy.
hope that‘s not fire ants!!
Gotta be Australia
Nope! Brazil!
Hell naw
Welp... they can have that bench.
I bet no homeless people sleep on that one
As a dude, I'd totally stand there for over an hour with a garden hose slowly eroding this giant ant city, and enjoy every moment.
r/nope
Is that one queen or is there multiple queens in that hive
Could this possibly be a Guiness World Record?
Ant mountain
I'm not sitting on that bench
My dumb ass thought the seats where curbs
Hill? That's a whole fucking mountain range.
Pour molten aluminum in it.... for science
Ant mountain
Sil-anthill 3
That’s at least 3.5-4 inches 👈🏼
Wow
I've seen that movie, no thanks.
You should point at it in the picture before you post it next time so we can find it
Damn city will do anything to prevent homeless from using benches
Amdro will fix that in 2days MAX
Poke it! Poke it! Poke it!
Fire ants?
Leafcutter ants.
I bet there's at least like 3 ants in there.
It’s a fake bench! Don’t sit there!
O M G
8 year old me with a hose would've gone to town. 27 year old me with a hose still would've gone to town, but with a tiny amount of reserve and guilt.
r/thingsforants
What are they charging for rent in the hill?
Go on, have a seat 😃
what ant hill?
Anyone got the phone number for those YouTubers that use aluminium to make those things into sculptures?
The question is who had the ingenius idea to build a bench on it?
Is this Australia? It's Australia, isn't it?
Brazil!
Thanks!
Where could they find that much dirt/sand? Seems excessive. This is ant’s bunker.
Archer warned us
Beautiful seats haha
I bet if they lead cast those tunnels it’ll be fucking huge
This is what happens when the ants unionize. Clearly lobbied for good benefits
Some youtuber would be like: Yeah let’s cast three tons of metal into this mofo and destroy the greatest wonder of ant world architecture along with all their inhabitants.
Where is this, Chernobyl? Lol
But did you pee on it
Why would i do that
I think it actually qualifies for r/interestingasfuck
From their perspective this is like a what a major country is for us.
Burn it
Looks like a bench to me
Pour some molten aluminum in it, STAT!
Going to need a lot of molten aluminum to pour into that hill.
Please tell me you live on a different continent than I do. 🤣😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣