Ingredients –
100 Live Black Ants (avoid red ants, their too spicy)
1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped out
2 Egg Yolks
1 Tbsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Butter, melted
12 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate picked by sholom22 1 year ago

Ants from an attacking colony will come up to inspect them, and they’ll be curled up just like a dead ant. Then moments later they uncurl and walk away. picked by doggylives 8 months ago

The butterflies deposit their larvae on marsh gentian plants where exploring ants find them, identify the chemical coating, and take the butterfly larvae back to the ant colony and feed them until they grow up and leave... picked by dollyllama 11 months ago

This video gives a fascinating look at what a huge ant colony look like underground. 10 tons of cement was poured into the colony and after solidification, the soil was excavated. Digging starts at around 4:10 min.
Amazing, but I actually feel bad for the ants. picked by wildminou 11 months ago

Trap-jaw ants bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight. Uninvited visitors to a nest of trap-jaw ants can expect a vicious response. picked by Jaxomlotus 2 years ago

Army ants tired of potholes take one for the team, throwing their bodies into rough spots to make a smoother road for their sisters. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Ants! I understand they are also good chocolate coated. picked by Bornbad 2 weeks ago

A bunch of ants devour a dead gecko from flesh to bone in a matter of a hours. Pretty cool time lapse. picked by lostsoul135 6 months ago

A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. picked by AutumnLotus 1 week ago

A flood hits a fire ant colony in the Amazon jungle. An amazing chance to see footage on how the species has adapted to water to protect their queen.

Embedding doesn't work. Click here picked by AutumnLotus 3 weeks ago

I couldn't tell where this video was actually taking place but it is a pretty bizarre annual festival. Some guys dressed like clowns run through the streets whipping people with sticks with festivities culminating in a shower of fire ants! Sounds like fun huh? picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago

* Nation's first vertical cemetery on its way
* Body will be put into holes feet-first
* It's cheaper and saves space picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

Thousands of people in northeastern China have protested on the streets and surrounded government offices demanding help recovering money from a get-rich-quick scheme to raise ants to make an aphrodisiac tonic. picked by mitzuzake 1 year ago

Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption and it goes all the way to the top, according to scientists from the Universities of Leeds and Copenhagen. Professor Jacobus Boomsma discovered that certain ants are able to cheat the system, ensuring their offspring become reproductive queens rather than sterile workers. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form at all, but rather swarms of tiny robots. picked by EweOrEye 1 month ago

These destructive little varmints cause 6 billion dollars worth of damage a year in the USA alone, not to mention their bites burn like the poisonous flames of hell. Now scientists fight back with an ant-specific virus. picked by VooDooPeacock 2 years ago

South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem. "You don't want to wade in this water," state Health Services Commissioner David Lakey said. "You don't want to play in this water. You want to stay out of this water." picked by deEPCHIll 4 months ago

The ants' perspective of how human beings have forgotten their place in the universe. picked by beany11 1 year ago

We're not sure where they came from, we don't really know how to stop them, and they're eating our electronics from the inside out!

The only (and small) good news is they eat fire ants. picked by lynxears 7 months ago

Design ideas with ant pattern picked by moebel 2 years ago