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Article: Treetop weavers: using living sewing machines, these ants weave their homes. And that's not all!(the making of leaves into homes, and other activities of weaver ants)
- Article from:
- Ranger Rick
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
- Author:
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Look, high up in that tree--hundreds, no, thousands, gosh, half a million ants are scurrying over the leaves.
There's something odd about those leaves too. They're curled into little clumps, almost as if they'd been sewn together. Wait--they have been sewn! A thick layer of silk thread weaves them together in groups of two or more.
Each leafy clump has been made into a little room by the ants. There are hundreds of rooms in this tree and the tree next to it and the tree next to that. In fact, a colony (group) of these ants can take over more than a dozen trees!
How can creatures the size of a grain of rice take over this much space? Hey, these aren't ...