Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:
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I found another remarkable ant vase. This one has a charming surprise inside.
It's a harvester ant!
Is it silly to have an ant making bread? I assure you it is not. Harvester ants crush the seeds they find and make them into a paste known as "ant bread" I suppose they don't bake it though...
Vase by Patricia Jones Jemez of Pueblo NM. She made many ant themed vases.
@futurebird this makes me think of the cartoon High Note
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I could write a whole book on "ants in pottery" ...
We're waiting.
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I found another remarkable ant vase. This one has a charming surprise inside.
It's a harvester ant!
Is it silly to have an ant making bread? I assure you it is not. Harvester ants crush the seeds they find and make them into a paste known as "ant bread" I suppose they don't bake it though...
Vase by Patricia Jones Jemez of Pueblo NM. She made many ant themed vases.
@futurebird Ants would bake bread if they learned how to harness fire without cooking themselves
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I found another remarkable ant vase. This one has a charming surprise inside.
It's a harvester ant!
Is it silly to have an ant making bread? I assure you it is not. Harvester ants crush the seeds they find and make them into a paste known as "ant bread" I suppose they don't bake it though...
Vase by Patricia Jones Jemez of Pueblo NM. She made many ant themed vases.
@futurebird immediately thought that was a Pueblo piece! It’s gorgeous!
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@futurebird i bet you could fit a lot of ants in even a pretty small pot
Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay:
Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesii create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground.
They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes form during the rains based on the height of the walls.
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Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay:
Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesii create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground.
They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes form during the rains based on the height of the walls.
I've been in pottery classes and watched (human) people struggle to hand build a cup this nice and smooth and symmetrical.
And they weren't even working on a cup the size of a small house.
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I've been in pottery classes and watched (human) people struggle to hand build a cup this nice and smooth and symmetrical.
And they weren't even working on a cup the size of a small house.
@futurebird oh wow, i wasn't aware of this at all, that's so damn cool! ants are awesome lil critters!
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@futurebird oh wow, i wasn't aware of this at all, that's so damn cool! ants are awesome lil critters!
I think these nests show how they are related to other wasps. We just get to see the things that winged wasps make more often.
