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the original civilization, running farms and slave raids while you struggle to fold laundry
means The plural of ant, those small social insects that live in highly organized colonies and turn up in vast numbers at picnics.
from From Old English æmete, the same word that also gave us "emmet," a dialect name for ants still heard in parts of England. Æmete is thought to come from a prefix meaning "off, away" plus a root tied to cutting or biting — roughly "the off-biter," a nod to the insect's nibbling jaws. Over centuries æmete wore down into two children: the rustic "emmet" and the trimmer "ant" we use today.
- farmers too
- Some species farm fungus inside their nests
- slave raiders
- Certain ants kidnap rival pupae to enslave
- total mass
- Ants may outweigh all wild birds and mammals
- no surrender
- Some march off cliffs in endless death spirals
- ancient empire
- They predate dinosaurs going extinct by millions of years
leafcutter ants — fungus-farming ants in central and south america that harvest leaves to cultivate underground fungal gardens
bullet ant — paraponera clavata of nicaragua and paraguay, has the most painful insect sting in the world at 24+ on the schmidt pain index
saharan silver ant — cataglyphis bombycina of the sahara desert, runs at 1 meter per second in 50°c+ heat, fastest ant on earth