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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Ants and antagonists
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Date: 6 Jan 89 19:59:19 GMT
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Argentine ants are ordinary little household ants.  Fire ants are big, and
have a nasty bite (hence the name).  Fire ants build anthills which are about
a foot high and three feet in diameter (dimensions may vary).

Insects have about 100,000 to 1,000,000 neurons each.  Ants are probably
toward the low end of this scale.

I don't remember the title, but I believe E.O.Wilson has written a book
on ant behavior.  E. O. Wilson is best known for his book Sociobiology,
which caused a revolution in thinking about the biological substrates of
animal behavior.

I haven't been invaded with ants.  I get invaded in the hottest days of
summer, apparently because the ants get more desparate for water.