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Re: Ant Nest Casting

Post: # 3209Post Vegetable
Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:14 am

Kind of cruel for the colony but peculiar and great way to study ants' nest structure.

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Re: Ant Nest Casting

Post: # 3220Post MadVampy
Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:07 pm

For its original idea of pouring concrete in it and then digging it up to see how the structure of the nest was I thought it was a great idea. But now that its a "cool" thing to do and also everyone's trying to make money off of it as "Art" I think its stupid and very destructive!
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Re: Ant Nest Casting

Post: # 5440Post Sylorocks68
Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:46 pm

Agree with you madvampy specially when they pour molten aluminum down the hole

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Re: Ant Nest Casting

Post: # 5453Post larynx
Sun Apr 24, 2016 12:08 pm

pretty cruel to me, but very cool. think about if we did one with a fast drying clear silicone or something similar. then you could kind of pause what was happening in the nest as it was poured.
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Re: Ant Nest Casting

Post: # 5456Post idahoantgirl
Sun Apr 24, 2016 4:39 pm

Sylorocks68 wrote:Agree with you madvampy specially when they pour molten aluminum down the hole
actually that would probably be the most humane of all because it would kill them instantly instead of them having to struggle a little in the cement before dying.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

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