With Summer just around the corner and families starting to enjoy the outdoors and the nice weather, we wanted to do a little post about the giant world of ants!
We all know that ants live underground. But I don’t think that any of us truly understand how vast their homes under the surface really are. Until 2000, the largest known ant super colony was on the Ishikari coast of Hokkaidō, Japan. The colony was estimated to contain 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 nests interconnected by underground passages over an area of 670 acres.
In 2010 a video was released showing a giant ant colony being pumped full of concrete, then excavated to reveal the complexity of its inner structure. Take a look at this amazing video by clicking on the image below!
