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Originally Posted by CyberAge-Dave
I left a little bit of a drink in my office upstairs.
Is it true one ant goes out on a mission, looks for sugar/food then goes back and tells all of his friends then they all come back in a single file line and attack the food.
There must be millions walking right past me while I'm typing away.
I hate ants, where's my 409!  |
Different types of ants in a hive.. one type are scouts like you said, they roam around looking for food and are the only kind that will find back to the nest, there is no logic in how they search either except that I think they do it in "areas" a bunch of them swarm out in one general direction a certain distance from the nest. And when nothing is found they move to the next bit...
When a scout finds food, it picks it up and wanks back to the nest, leaving a scent trail on the way. Once they cross any other scent trail leading from the nest, the worker ants start walking the new path also... The workers are rather stupid, if you break the path they are basically fucked, they will not find their way back to the nest.
Never saw the movie a Bug's Life huh?
Its quite accurate in some funny ways.. in the very beginning, there is this trail of worker ants, and a leave drops onto the trail, and the ants all freak out because they do not know where to go anymore, and a scout comes and helps them around the leave, which is like 3 tiny steps <G>
Ahh funny.