Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:
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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.
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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.
@futurebird @goaty The internet has messed me up enough that the first thing that entered my broken brain was ‘it’s missing the ring’.
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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.
@futurebird @goaty Ants will never cease to amaze me!
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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 The final ant on the inside is really cute
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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.
@futurebird that is cool as hell
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Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:
There are some really excellent pieces of art. Maaan if I were a rich person with a house with a place to put a $600 vase I know exactly which vase I would have. :
https://www.etsy.com/listing/8838238/ant-picnic-6x6-ceramic-art-tile
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1661330421/stunning-casas-grandes-mata-ortiz-olla
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4393721145/ceramic-sgraffito-bowl-with-ants?I just wanted someone else to look at the nice ant art. Maybe it will inspire YOU to make ant art.
Is a house really a home without some ants?
@futurebird Perhaps you should make Douglas Hofstadter aware of these bowls. I stumbled across a short video interview of him on YouTube, recently, and he said he is now more interested in art than science.
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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.
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing!
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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.
This is astonishing!
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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.
@futurebird oh yeah, absolutely! like, that's straight up mud dauber type stuff!
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@futurebird oh yeah, absolutely! like, that's straight up mud dauber type stuff!
I once read the most interesting story online about a small town with a dark secret. Everyone in it looked like a human but was really some kind of bee or wasp.
Then a family of yellow jacket people moved in and everyone was suspicious of them.
But the "mud-dauber woman" had a pottery studio in the tiny downtown which I just thought was a charming little detail.
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I once read the most interesting story online about a small town with a dark secret. Everyone in it looked like a human but was really some kind of bee or wasp.
Then a family of yellow jacket people moved in and everyone was suspicious of them.
But the "mud-dauber woman" had a pottery studio in the tiny downtown which I just thought was a charming little detail.
@futurebird awww
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I once read the most interesting story online about a small town with a dark secret. Everyone in it looked like a human but was really some kind of bee or wasp.
Then a family of yellow jacket people moved in and everyone was suspicious of them.
But the "mud-dauber woman" had a pottery studio in the tiny downtown which I just thought was a charming little detail.
Oh this has suddenly reminded me of a movie, I think from the 90s, in which some intelligent bugs from the rainforest who are really good mimics, disguise themselves as human, to go live in a human town. I think the idea is that they want to do research on the creatures who are destroying their habitat. It was wuite an oddball film that stuck in my memory but I can't remember anything else about it. Let me think
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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.
@futurebird @goaty how tall do these levies go?
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Oh this has suddenly reminded me of a movie, I think from the 90s, in which some intelligent bugs from the rainforest who are really good mimics, disguise themselves as human, to go live in a human town. I think the idea is that they want to do research on the creatures who are destroying their habitat. It was wuite an oddball film that stuck in my memory but I can't remember anything else about it. Let me think
Ah it's this one. The review is not kind, maybe that's why I can't remember much else about it...
Meet The Applegates movie review (1991) | Roger Ebert
"Meet the Applegates" is yet another attempt to find humor behind the facade of middle-class suburbia, by revealing that a normal family is secretly bizarre.
Roger Ebert (www.rogerebert.com)
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@futurebird @goaty how tall do these levies go?
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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.
@futurebird @goaty Clever.
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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.
How do they make it dense enough to not wash away at the base? Surely ants aren’t heavy enough for effective particle compaction ?
!! Do they drywall-fit the grains together? @futurebird @goaty
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How do they make it dense enough to not wash away at the base? Surely ants aren’t heavy enough for effective particle compaction ?
!! Do they drywall-fit the grains together? @futurebird @goaty
