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July 2, 2009
BBC – Earth News – Ant mega-colony takes over world

While ants are usually highly territorial, those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart. Each super-colony, however, was thought to be quite distinct.

But it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.

via BBC – Earth News – Ant mega-colony takes over world.

Via Bruce Sterling

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