Iv been interested in ants lately

Ants start building villages and conquering other colonies and invent weapons

I wonder how strong the ants vision must be. Must be scary as hell seeing giants capable of crushing yo, so many external threats out there.

I've had tiny black ants coming in under the back door . After reading about humane ways of keeping them out , I placed two pieces of peeled garlic at their entry point . They moved them , the next morning the garlic pieces were 18' inches from where I'd placed them . I live alone . Anyway , I replaced them . The next night the garlic stayed put , I though maybe I did accidentally move them . This morning not only have they been moved , I can't find them . This seems to indicate that I'm involved in a battle of wills with these tiny creatures . I'm totally amazed . My guess is they put the garlic under the freezer or washing machine so that I can't find it . How little we know !

They can "problem solve" more effectively than humans in a number of scenarios. I think we need to open our minds a bit because if we could actually communicate with them they could build nanotech

The analogy to a nervous system seems condescending. A nervous system doesn't build architecture or create agriculture. An individual ant is similar to an individual person in that alone does not accomplish much but as a group can build entire civilizations that span the globe. The only difference being an individual ant is less likely to ask existential questions or behave rebelliously. Humans surely are anthropocentric to the point where we dismiss other animal societies as "quaint" or "less evolved."

This simplistic understanding of intelligence will not stand the test of time. Swarm intelligence is overrated and the comparison with human neural circuitry is an apples to oranges comparison.

His reasoning is flawed. He could have easily said “ individual humans aren’t smart, but put a few together and they can do what no one human can’t do”. Obviously it takes individual intelligence for there to be group intelligence. I believe ants are quite smart as individual ants

I wonder if the fungus they love has anything to do with the colony hivemind.

I've been having probs with ants trying to take over my house. Crawling up onto my bed and crawling all over me just doing over all weird stuff. Not the kind that bite but big black suger ant type.

I never would believe ants are as smart as they are until I was watching one in particular walking on the edge of my garden and as I'm watching it, It stood up on its two back legs and looked directly at me. Since then I have a new found respect for ants and that is what brought me here. There is a tremendous amount of intelligence Outdoors in so many different insects, birds animals ect ect. I've learnt to take a moment with an open mind and watch.

I believe that ants that work together become a hive mind, so essentially the more ants; The more intelligent the colony.

“It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin’s head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.”-- Charles Darwin, The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. 1871. Volume I, p. 145.

i stopped thinking of ants as pests a few years ago, now everytime i see one at home in the kitchen i observe it and say hello, marveling at its beauty

Great information , indeed 😇

One time, those Ants tried sabotaging my Fridge by sacrificing a lot of their Comrades life to block the Fridge Timer Fan, once the Fridge Cooling System stopped, They started invading some foods inside through the Fridge Cooling Tubes.

I accidentally stepped on an ants leg and now it can't walk correctly, it just ran in circles. So I picked it up and put it in a random ant colony, hopefully he gets accepted

Intelligence was first developed by representatives of such species as ants, bees and ancient plants. Интеллект первые развили представители таких видов как муравьи , пчёлы и древние растения.

he sounds like michio kaku

Have you ever tried to get a little picnic ant to crawl on your hand? They will do anything to avoid it and it's owner. Next time you see one little picnic ant on a flat smooth surface on a kitchen counter or bathroom backslash try corraling it by laying yor hands flat on the surface and use thumbs and index fingers to form small ant corral. You can see the intelligence in the ant as this tiny life form frantically looks for a way out without touching your hands. It's only when this very intelligent creature has found no way out will the ant crawl on your hand so then one can proceed to the door and set this tiny wonder of nature free. That's the occasional picnic ant. If more show up, quite bothersome pests and into everything edible they can get into.