Ants, kings of construction?
These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it’s just a summary. But when you are interested… feel free to look up the species hereor click the resource links below each fact.
Do ants build levees and dikes?
Fire ants build two centimeters high walls outside the entrance of their nest. Also other ants build these walls, but it is not clear why. Is it because keeping water outside… or are ants just lazy to walk further from the nest with sand?
What is the largest wood-ant hill?
This question is asked often. Ravensheide nest 88 from ant-maps database is pretty large. But there are many observations from others from much larger nests. The largest British one is 167 cm high, smaller than RH 88. On this forum you find a link to a much much larger ant hill! Maybe more than 220 cm. Link to photo
