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Harvester Ant Nest Architecture

Walter Tschinkel, entomology professer at Florida State University, has been making plaster casts of ant nests since 1982.

ARTICLE/IMAGES (via Future Feeder < Journal of Insect Science)

5 comments

  1. dt 06 June, 06 @ 6:21 am

    WOW this is absolutly amazing. The question is how does he get it OUT of the ground?

  2. Justin Ruckman 09 June, 06 @ 4:01 pm

    Lots of little pieces. I read on BLDGBLOG that one of them took five gallons of plaster and came out in 180 broken fragments.

  3. David Cerruti 16 July, 06 @ 10:24 pm

    In the early 1960′s, a friend would make lead casts of ant nests. They were much smaller than the one pictured above, but they came out of the ground in one piece.

  4. Brent Rice 23 July, 06 @ 10:23 pm

    Does he sell these things? Does anyone know where you could buy a piece?

  5. tom 25 June, 11 @ 12:49 pm

    is that how big ants nests actually are?

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