Tunnel Digging Ants (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Tunnel Digging Ants

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To understand their strategies for working effectively without clogging traffic jams, researchers studied how fire ants dug tunnels in glass particles that simulated soil.

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Rob Felt, Georgia Tech

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