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Wednesday -- March 3, 2010

Things That Make Your Antennas Twitch

EXTRA! Six legs good: Alok Jha investigates the extraordinary world of ants. Thanks RBH.

The Ants Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Your questions and answers might be in here.

Myrmecology Society's mailing list (dead/inactive) with pictures.

The Ant Kingdom: An introduction to ants, mainly for kids.

AntBase: .org (world) and .net (Malaysia, Mongolia, and Germany): Social Insects WWW ant pages and a collaborative effort between scientists from around the world to provide information.

Myrm's Ant Nest: A Web site about myrmecology -- mainly concentrating on ants in the British Isles. Thanks GreenMule.

Amusingfacts.com's facts on Ants.

Ant(s) in encyclopedias: Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia.

Everything on ant, ants, ant farm, and Myrmecology with explainations, definitions, lyrics, poems, etc. Some terms are not even related to the insects.

Harper's Index: Numbers and statistics on ants.

Lots of good questions and answers on ants on MadSci's search engine.

JungleWalk has various video clips, audio clips, photographs, and links to other Web sites on ants.

Links for Ant Enthusiasts: Informational links.

This seed is light!

Japanese Ants Image Database: Tons of ant pictures and information!

Able Bodies and Bulldog Ants -- Various ant photographs/photos. from Mark W. Moffett (see his Adventures Among Ants Web site for more other ant stories, videos, and photographs/photos.; thanks Notes from Underground) for National Geographic.

Many ants articles from over 300 reputable magazines and journals with FindArticles.

Notes from Underground: Online articles on Ants hosted by Mrmacophyl.

Casa Hormiga contains articles, stories, photographs, and links with an inventory of the living ant colonies maintained in Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute (SASI). Thanks Steve Prchal.

Still on the Farm, 200 Million Ants Later and Voyeur To Head Ant: An history on Ant Farms and Simant.

Basic Information: The Ants and Ants.

Anthony Ant's Story: Story and information on ants for the kids.

Morphological and Functional Diversity of Ant Mandibles: All about ant mandibles. Thanks Dr. Ant.

Excerpt of Bernard Werber's Empire of the Ants book.

Big Bugs + Little People: Giant Ants (and other insects) vs. Tiny Humans Novels. Thanks kalimant.

The Hacker and the Ants: A science fiction book about robot ants that went on their own.

Stranger Than Fiction: Go to the ant, ant feats.

Debbie's Unit Factory: Ant links.

Surfing the Net With Kids: Ants.

Ants of the Cowling Arboretum and McKnight Praire, Carleton College. Lots of information and pictures.

Ants help each other as teachers and pupils: Scientists say it is the first nonhuman example of two-way instruction. Thanks Vendayn for the first story.

Ants Use Scents Like Road Signs: Ants scouting for food place a tiny scent marker on branches that do not lead to a reward. Thanks MrILoveTheAnts.

Sumo wrestling keeps big ants in line: Large workers of Malaysian ants, Acanthomyrmex ferox, are reported to fight among themselves in "spectacular shaking contests." Thanks kalimant.

Life in the Colonies: Ants carve underground labyrinths, gather food, nurture their young and adapt to all sorts of environmental changes--with no leadership whatsoever. What drives this 'swarm intelligence'?

A scientific article about an ant's chemical showing promise as treatment for Alzheimer's. Thanks Zanti Agent.

Ant's slow fall key to survival: "Why don't ants die when falling from a high distance?"

A PhysOrg article: "Ants prefer salty snacks to sugary ones, at least in inland areas that tend to be salt-poor, according to a new study...

Ants Pawns In Battle of Wasps, Butterflies: Even when they win, they lose. Hapless ants, like mortals caught in a crossfire between competing gods, are exploited in turn by two other insects, a butterfly and a wasp. Thanks Ted.

#1, #2, #3, and #4: Butterfly tricks ants into caring for its young -- Study observes co-evolutionary arms race between caterpillar and ants.

Getting it off their chest: Study reveals how ants talk to each other.

Walter's Ant Castles/Plastered Nests: #1 and #2 (thanks MrILoveTheAnts): Pulling ant castles from the ground with dental plaster. Flickr's museum shot with Zinc.

"The Secret World Of Ants" -- A 3.75 minutes news story video (CBS News (Sunday Morning) or YouTube) -- "One of nature's greatest architects, ants continue to mystify scientists with their intricate underground colonies. Serena Altschul visits an ant expert who makes moldings of these tiny creatures."

Fire Ant Models: Mound Models used for various presentations and exhibits, and Imported Fire Ant Model.

Ant Colony on Verge of Extinction: An ant colony dying in ISHIKARI, Japan.

Nature.com reports on Temnothorax albipennis ant species, with radio-frequency identification/RFID, as house hunters...

Rare ants get their own suntraps: Wildlife experts have created special areas where a rare species of ant can relax and sunbathe.

BBC News report that the secrets of ant sleep were revealed. Thanks Vendayn.

LiveScience's story (thanks Mousey), U.C. Berkley's Press Release on rainforest/Canopy-dwellers (Cephalotes atratus) steer/gliding themselves home during a fall. Both links have streaming video clips. See more on Dr. Stephen P. Yanoviak's Web site (thanks Myrmecos).

Ants Hate Each Other' But Work Together for technical details Thanks Morosophomyrmex) -- Ant colonies as "un-peaceful coexistence," multiple ant species stake out the same territory and compete for the same food, but no single species wins out since some are better at finding resources and others better at guarding them.

BBC and Current Biology: Ants Leave Their Nests to Die in Social Isolation.

Scientists discover swimming ants: North Queensland scientists have discovered a new type of ant, believed to be the only species (polyrhachis sokolova) that can live, swim and navigate under water. Thanks Digg. Also, see BBC News' Real Player video clip, from Life in the Undergrowth episode #5 (Supersocieties), of the ants in action.

A QuickTime video clip from Evolution: The Evolutionary Arms Race. From Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants.

Two QuickTime video clips with "Doctor Bugs" and the Weaver Ants of Angkor Wat in Cambodia: #1 and #2. From Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants.

'Hey I'm Dead!' The Story Of The Very Lively Ant with a funny 4.5 minutes Flash audio. Seen on Myrmecos Blog.

Early ant plagues in the New World: A short paper about two "ant plagues" in 1580 and 1760. Thanks Morosophomyrmex.

Worker Ants Reveal Their Mercenary Side: Ants have long been regarded as the embodiment of teamwork and selflessness, but a new study reveals a more mercenary side. Thanks Tetramorium.

Ancient Ant in Amber.

Ants in American Pants: An essay on Ants and Americans by Jesse Bond. Web format or Microsoft Word document.

Ant Alert! (click on each picture section) for words related to ants for fun.

Ant Power Packs: A research on powering cell phones with a formic acid-based fuel cell. Thanks AntJulie.

Ant World Cup: Soccer played by real life ants.

Swarms of ants irk Metro Detroit: Wet summer creates plague of flying bugs looking for mates during a major league baseball (MLB) game at Comerica Park, the home of Detroit Tigers. Thanks AntJulie/Stridulations.

An Ant Saves Man's Life: A lowly ant stepping up to save somebody's life.

Death & glory: A story of ants, ageing and altruism -- Ants take bigger risks for the good of the colony as they get older and they can even assess how much time they have left in life.

Fire Ant Festival (not friendly to slow Internet connection users) happens on the last weekend of March in Ashburn, GA, USA.

Ants in Special Delivery: A colony of a rare species of ant has been returned to its home in Devon six years after it was rescued by Paignton Zoo. Thanks davidhant.

#1, #2, and #3: A panicking crowd can be evacuated faster by placing certain types of obstacles in its path, according to Australian researchers who say we can learn from the masters of crowd control: ants.

#1, #2, and #3: Ants cutting human hair: Localized scalp hair shedding/focal alopecia (aka bald spots), in human beings, caused by Pheidole ants and overview of similar case reports. Thanks Biddybot.

LOGOS's list (with audio clips) and Foreign Words for Ant/Ants (updated: 2/2/2005): Translation lists.

Documentaries

Educated Earth and Documentary-log have online video of "Ants - Nature's Secret Power" documentary.

NOVA's documentary -- Little Creatures Who Run the World -- Program Contents and Transcript.

NOVA's Lord of the Ants (can watch in here or on YouTube) documentary on Naturalist Edward O. Wilson.

A 18 minutes Cambridge Community Television (CCTV)'s Ants Documentary. For free, watch it online (streaming) or download it (MP4/FLV format) from blip.tv. Watch people talk, work on, and study ants. Watch its trailer. Thanks The Ant Room (#1 and #2).

YouTube has two parts (#1 and #2; almost 22 minutes long in total) on an old color "In Search Of... Deadly Ants" (S2E22) documentary.

18.5 minutes educational Ants: Exploring How They Live video: "In this video, the remarkable organization of ants' lives is revealed when a boy, his mother and a friend build an ant farm to examine ants' physical development, reproductive cycle and social roles." Thanks AndreTheAnt.

1949's black and white (B&W) documentary titled "Ant City" (nine minutes and 58 seconds) on Google Video and YouTube. Thanks MrILoveTheAnts.

Goodbye Mrs. Ant: An old video documentary (black and white; 1959; 13:20 minutes) on ants. The life cycle and habits of the ant, and how to control and exterminate them with insecticides. Begins with a wonderful sequence in which we hear ants screaming "We're hungry! We're hungry!"

Podcasts, Radio Shows, Etc. on Ants

TED (20 minutes and 25 seconds; YouTube from VideoSift) with Deborah Gordon talking and showing how do ants know what to do? Also see this one hour and five minutes YouTube video from Google Tech Talks (from VideoSift).

41.25 minutes Ants: The Invisible Majority with Dr. Brian Fisher Video Talk: He describes the unique behaviors and incredible adaptations of our planet's most charismatic small animals. See how ants farm, hunt and tend "herds of livestock". Learn how primitive Dracula ants feed on their sisters' blood. Seen on VideoSift.

Dr. Brian Fisher talks about ants, his stories, photographs/photos., videos, etc.

Ants That Count! -- "Can ants count? Not out loud they can't. Not the way you and I count. But an ingenious experiment conducted in the Sahara suggests maybe ants do count..." Thanks Mousey.

A Year in the Life of Ants: A radio series that charts, by eavesdropping on wood ants, the fascinating and bizarre lives of two colonies; one in a pine forest and the other in a deciduous woodland in Northumberland (UK). Thanks Myrm.

Ant Patrol: A Living On Earth radio interview with Stefan Cover, the curator for Harvard University's ant collection (the largest in the world). Transcript and audio are available. Thanks bounty80.

This forum thread has audio podcasts and transcripts of various ant topics.

Ants (August 6, 1999: Hour Two): Ants! -- "... We'll discuss the fire ant problem, as well as efforts to control fire ant populations - both through the use of chemical repellents and pesticides, and through biocontrol efforts. We'll also talk about new research into the sex lives of harvester ants. A report out this week in the journal Science says that colonies of ants in which the queens are more sexually promiscuous seem to grow more quickly than other colonies. Why? Does more genetic diversity within a colony may make a colony more fit? We'll find out. Join guest host Brooke Gladstone for an ant extravaganza on this hour of Science Friday." Real Audio.

The Annual Spring Bugs Show (April 2, 1999: Hour Two) -- "We'll be talking with insect experts who may be able to help you with questions like "How do ants communicate with each other?" and "How do some ants manage to sneak into other ant nests unscathed? Chemical camouflage!" Also, find out how one species of tropical ant may inadvertently give intruders into its nest a free pass to steal food ... if the raiders are persistent enough."

Interview with Neil Tsutsui on Ants. Starts at 27.75ish minute to the end. Mostly about Argentine ants.

South American Flying Ants. From 16:55 minutes to 20.5 minutes.

A five minutes and ten seconds video interview (video isn't really needed) with Mark W. Moffett, an ant expert and photographer, from The Colbert Report.

Sting pain indexes by Schmidt and Starr. Go ants!

Blogs and Forums

The Ant Farm and Myrmecology Forum: Official place to discuss ants from here.

Ant News (old since it was last updated on 11/25/2005): A blog with various ant news with technical discussions. Thanks Myrmecos1.

The Ant Room: A daily progress in the identification of the ant fauna of Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Ecuador, the analysis of that data, other fun stuff, etc.

Ant Visions: A blog site with photographs and stories/comments.

Antomatic.org: A blog dedicated to all things ant.

Formicidae/SuperOrganism: A forum to discuss on different topics related ant biology and research.

Myrmecos Blog: A blog on ants, photography, other insects, etc.

Technical Information

Archive.org's Ant Texts for extensive scientific journal articles, papers, and books about ants.

Myrmecological News -- Journals of ants.

AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). They have been developed to facilitate the use of ants in inventory and monitoring programs. Information on the ant faunas of California and Madagascar for now. Thanks Myrmecos.

Ants -- Checklists, images, identification guides, and maps of Formicidae.

Online Catalog of Ants of North America with information and pictures. Thanks Morosophomyrmex.

The Ants of North America: Includes online books with technical informations and drawings in Microsoft Word documents.

Formicidae of the United States: Links to ant species checklists for some U.S. states. Thanks K. Kris.

Ants of Arizona: Common species with information and photographs.

Australian Ants Online: The guide to the Australian ant fauna. Thanks Myrmecos.

Ants of Costa Rica: Provides species-level information; Hymenoptera, Formicidae.

Argentine Ants/Linepithema humile: Myrmecos Blog on how to identify this species, RealMedia video clip/Windows Media video clip of two worker ants in action and information.

Army Ants: New World Army Ants (thanks Mrmacophyl), National Geographic's Inside the Ranks, Eciton burchelli, The Raiders, watcher's misadventure, Orphan Army Ants Join Nearby Colonies (thanks engwinner), and California Academy of Sciences' army ants lose the battle to a lowly beetle (thanks Bismark).

Carpenter Ants: #1 and #2.

Fire Ants: Research and Management, Orange County Fire Ant Authority, Red Imported Fire Ants (California), "Invincible Ants" in Australia, Ouch! The Fire Ant Saga Continues, Research Confirms Storms Eliminated Fire Ants In Some Areas (Hurricanes Katrina and Rita due to salt water), a 5.75 minutes YouTube video (seen on VideoSift), and fire ants play dead. Thanks Laurence T. May, Jr. for some of the links.

Ants with green beards.

/. talks about Google Ants (Proceratium google) as a tribute to the usefulness of Google Earth in Dr. Brian L. Fisher's research.

Leafcutter Ants & Fungus Growing Ants: A 2.25 minutes RDF TV video (Ants that farm, compost, and weed.), Kalimant's Leafcutter Ant Distribution Maps and Lists, Leafcutter Ants (with a story), Ant Farmers/First Fungal Farmers of the Americas, Nicholas Wade's article, The Lurker's Guide to Leafcutter Ants (thanks Kalimant), When Ants Squeak, Ants Used Antibiotics Long Before Humans Did, Fungus-growing Ants Use Antibiotic-producing Bacteria to Control Garden Parasites (thanks Kalimant), Keeping Leaf Cutter Ants (Acromyrmex octospinosus), Quick-thinking ants trim foliage to fit (one minute YouTube video; thanks Eric3579), and When Bringing Back the Mangoes, Ants Specialize for the Job (free login required). A 6 minutes and 48 seconds YouTube video clip of "Leafcutter Ants - the First Agriculture" and 3.75 minutes of YouTube video clip of Dirty Jobs' season 5, episode 5 (a segment from Bug Breeder").

Slavemaker Ants: Misunderstood Farmers? Behavior examined.

BBC News, with a 51 seconds video, and Telegraph report United Kingdom/UK's biggest hairy northern wood ant nests were given global positioning system (GPS) addresses to stop them being destroyed.

Wood Ant Queen Has No Egg-laying Monopoly: #1 and #2.

A list to show the differences between termites and ants.

Traditional Medicinal Knowledge about Red Ant Oecophylla smaragdina (Fab.) [Hymenoptera; Formicidae] in Chhattisgarh, India." Thanks Mrmacophyl.

A Natural History of Extrafloral Nectar: Collecting Ants in the Sonoran Desert. Thanks Jesse.

Ants: The Astonishing Intimacy Between Ants & Plants.

Parasites Morph Ants to Look 'Berry' Tasty -- a riveting tale of natural balance gone bad, with an unhappy moral for other ecosystems.

Ants Protecting Their Turf: Ants and plants relationship to avoid war.

Weakling ants cheat by pruning the trees: A research on ant wars in acacia trees.

Ants Are Friendly To Some Trees, But Not Others -- "Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that when they run out of space in their trees of choice, the ants can get destructive to neighboring trees." Thanks MrILoveTheAnts.

When plants need ants' help, bigger is better: #1 and #2.

How Ants Secretly Damage Rainforests: Some 'predatory' ants are vegetarian conspirators with sap-sucking insects. Thanks Dr. Ant

Introduction to Animal Behaviour: Courses, Tests, Slave-Makers, Slaves, and Workless Parasites.

Rare Ant May Help Solve Some Mysteries Of Social Evolution: #1, #2, and #3 (Thanks DirtChild and Morosophomyrmex).

Eating seeds shifts ant sex ratios: Research shows that seed eating by ants increases number of reproductive females in colonies.

Ant Symbioses: Ants and their interactions with other organisms.

Ants deliver environmental health report: A CSIRO scientist has developed a technique for using ants as biological indicators of ecosystem health.

Ants of the Cowling Arboretum and McKnight Prairie, Carleton College: Information and images.

Technical papers (some are in Acrobat PDF format) on ants. Thanks Daniel Phelps.

Ants rely on smell and touch when deciding to go to work: A study discovered that foragers only leave the colony after they've smelled the bodies of patrollers who have returned to the nest. Video documentary included. Also read related link.

Ants use pedometers to find home: How ants judge distance. Thanks Dr. Ant.

Ants: marching soldiers or disciplined drivers? -- "Courtesy, compassion: Incoming cargo-laden ants always have the right of way..."

Amazon ants use 'torture rack' to kill prey: BBC News UK's story and LiveScience's story (thanks Mrmacophyl). A species of Amazonian tree ant builds elaborate traps to snare its prey, which is then stretched like a victim on a medieval rack before being hacked to pieces. Thanks Pigeon.

BBC News UK reports a scientific study of the teamwork of army ants has discovered how they are prepared to let their fellow ants walk all over them to get the job done.

An UC Berkeley News story, with three QuickTime videos (also at Nature.com) of trap-jaw ants, Odontomachus bauri, using their powerful mandibles to fling themselves into the air) titled "trap-jaw ants' break speed record and propel them into air".

Ants, not evil spirits, create poisonous devil's gardens in the Amazon rainforest. Scientists have identified an ant species that produces its own natural herbicide to poison unwanted plants. Also, a 9 minutes and two seconds audio clip.

Ant Queens With Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester ant: The researchers wanted to know whether the ant's genetic endowment dictated its caste and size or whether nutrition also played a role. From Myrmecos Blog.

Wrong Genes Lose Heads, Why Fire Ants Kill Their Queens, and Fire Ants Spurn Sex to Protect Genes: Behaviors of fire ants and their queens (thanks pallab1234).

How Cheating Ants Give Themselves Away (from kronosposeidon's comment): "In ant society, workers normally give up reproducing themselves to care for their queen's offspring, who are their brothers and sisters. When workers try to cheat and have their own kids in the queen's presence, their peers swiftly attack and physically restrain them from reproducing..."

Ants Recognize the Sex of Their Larvae.

BBC News reports that "an Amazonian ant has dispensed with sex and developed into an all-female species, researchers have found. The ants reproduce via cloning - the queen ants copy themselves to produce genetically identical daughters.

Mindless Collectives Better at Rational Decision-Making Than Brainy Individuals: "New experiments show how ant colonies don't fall prey to irrational choices as humans sometimes do..."

Ants head straight home: You don't need a big brain to perform remarkable feats of navigation. Thanks Michael.

Sensory functions of ants on the trail of ants' fancy footwork.

The Ant: A morphological tour of the super organism.

Behavior of Real Ants: Pheromone trail.

Ants Follow Forks in Their Roads to Find Home: Foraging Pharaoh's ants employ a simpler means to find their way home: geometry.

Professor Zhanna Reznikova shows her works that some ant species have numerical abilities, and some kind of symbolic language far more elaborated than bees. Thanks netodejulilla.

Search ants on Blackwell Synergy for technical information on ants. Thanks Morosophomyrmex.

How to Mount Ants: A guide for an ant collection (aka insect collection)

An Improved and Quantified Technique for Marking Individual Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: formicidae): Maybe good for other ant species. Thanks Kuene.

A PDF article on the influence of red light on the aggregation of two castes of the ant, Lasius niger. Thanks oresukos.

Ant Texts, on The Internet Archive and affliated to antbase.org, to archive and offer various documentations on ants in both English and foreign languages no matter their ages.

Charles Darwin Online on ants.

Ants in Space Experiment by NASA: A forum thread, #1 (Thanks Fowler Ants In Space), #2, and #3 (Thanks Fowler Ants In Space). Observed and characterized the effects of space flight on the tunneling behavior of fifteen harvester ants (Pogonomymex occidentalis) during a 16-day long space shuttle Columbia (STS-107) flight that began on 1/16/2003, but the shuttle failed to come home. National Geographic (similar story; streaming video clip included; a screen capture).

Nobel Laureate Physicist Richard Feynman's on ant trail experiments. More technical information and pictures. Seen on The Ant Room.

Sweet and Sticky: Ants versus/vs. Peeps.

Several photographs of spiders mimicing as ants and others.

Ants as Pests

5 worst invasive ant species in the 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species list. Thanks Myrmecos.

Global warming could trigger ant invasions: The study of 665 ant colonies in environments ranging from tropical rainforests to frozen tundra suggests that in warmer environments the ants' body size shrinks, on average, while the number of individuals in the colony booms. Thanks Blue's News.

Ants in Lawns.

Verminators: Method Anting: A 5.5 minutes clip Roman uses mad skills to hunt down a colony of ants.

Pest Ants in Hawaii.

You can always get an ... as a pet!

Ants as Killers

Fire Ants Bite Elderly Woman 1,625 Times: An 87-year-old nursing lady died from this attack.

Ants Can Cause Asthma, Allergies: Pharaoh ants blamed in two asthma cases.

Crazy Ants Attack Red Crabs: Ants' Acid Overrunning Oz Crabs and Australia-Killer-Ants.

Argentine Ants Invasion: Success Tied to Reduced Genetic Variation, Ant Supercolony Spans Thousands of Miles, Argentine ants change eating habits when they become established in a new area, Invading Ants Press United Front in California, Argentine Ants Threaten Californian Horned Lizards (Thanks Tetramorium.), Army of invaders walks all over the natives (use BugMeNot for a free dummy account to log in; thanks Chairboy), ant mega-colony takes over world, and UC Irvine Scientists Make Ants Go Ape by Giving Them B.O. -- Read: SF Gate and LiveScience (Thanks Sean). Might not be 'supercolony' after all.

An article on Crazy Ant species that established itself as an uninvited guest at Biosphere 2. Thanks Tetramorium.

Slave Ant Rebels (also on Discover) -- Kidnapped worker ants do a little quiet sabotage. From Myrmecos.

Ant-Related Items to Wear and Make

Two funny Threadless' ant T-shirts: #1 and #2.

Ant Colony -- "This family of fire ants gets a big surprise when a couple of moles accidentally pop into their family room. And those two moles might have company in tow..."

Gigantiops Destructor -- Cool Ant Stuff. Thanks Kari Ryder.

Fire Ant T-Shirt: A BugLord gear.

Leprochaun St. Patricks Day Baby Onesies T-shirt with a black ant.

Ant socks.

McIlhenny Tabasco - Grillin' Guy: Boxer shorts with a red ant trail.

1st or 2nd Birthday With The Ants Outfit for 1 and 2 years old child.

Laughing Lizards has a three appliques with ants: Ants With Apple Core (local image), Ants With Cookie (local image), Cupcake With Thieving Ants (local image), and Watermelon Slice With Ants.

Ant costumes: Ant mascot (mirror), and red ant.

Ant Jewelries: Bracelets (#1 and #2), lapel, ants jewelry with bronze and silver, and Fetish Design's earrings, key ring, and pendant.

Picnic Chef Hat. 3-D Ant Belt Buckle -- 4" long and 3" high, and detailed.

Puppets: Ants (The Ant Patrol) and Terra, the Ant (#1 and #2).

Big Red Ant Button.

Embroidery Library has a collection of ant designs.

Make a cute brown ant with a felted knit pattern kit. Seen in The Ant Room.

Computer, Video, and Online Games Related to Ants

Empire of the Ants: A real-time simulation game for personal computer/PC's Windows from 2000.

Google's Web Directory of SimAnt from Maxis. A simulation game.

Ant War: "The Best Ant Colony Simulator Online."

DuPont Advion Ant Annihilation Game -- A simple flash game where you must click on various ant species on your screen within one minute.

Ant Tracks -- A Flash game where you must guide leaf-cutter ants with leaves, grubs/larvae, and insects to specific goals and avoid dangers. Thanks Blue.

Picnic Basket Defense -- A Flash game where you must protect your picnic food from ants and other insects.

Ant Buster (Flash required): Kill the ants before they take your food.

Ant Nation game for Nintendo systems.

AntRun is a fast paced arcade game where your goal is to keep the ant running through the ant pipes/tunnels. Macromedia Shockwave required.

Ant Arena: It's like cock fighting, only legal and doesn't use real ants. Macromedia Flash required.

The Ant Explorer (Spanish): An adventure puzzle game -- "You are an explorer ant responsible for planting the seed of the food. Look for objects and use them correctly so that your whole anthill survive the winter."

Ants for the Psion 3a and 3c.

Ant Attack: An old Solftsolid 3D game for Sinclair Spectrum. Online Java game is available. Thanks Darkant5. YouTube has a video clip.

Insect Infestation multiplayer modification/mod for Half-Life 2 with an insect theme including ants.

Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer Red Alert Aftermath addon has secret missions with ants. A screen shot and YouTube video of the title screen and introduction.

It Came From the Desert and its sequel (Antheads): A classic action/adventure/interactive movie game. You can download the games for free.

They Came From Hollywood game features giant red ants. Screen shots: #1, #2, #3, and #4.

Freedom Force games have an ant character and ants (soldier ant and worker ant). The Third Reich playable demo has red soldier ants (see Ant's screen shot from rumble room).

Fu'Miga's SAGA mod for Neverwinter Nights. Thanks Mousey.

Ant people (see 5/15/2003 and 1/17/2003 screen shots) in Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Unrentide.

Ants and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)/Robots/Computers/Networks

The Ants: A Community of Microrobots.

/. and BBC News: Ants and their leaderless collective behavior on little robots called U-bots.

An article on robotics researchers studying ant behavior for secrets of teamwork.

Insects Help Robots Grasp the Big Picture: A research focuses on the ability of ants to navigate around a feeding site.

No place like home: Ant navigation skills used in robot navigation -- Ants go back to the nest every so often to "reset" their navigation system or else guidance errors will occur. The insights from Knaden's experiments have already been applied to improve autonomous robot orientation. Thanks Boing Boing.

8 Legged Robotic Micro Ant from Sweden.

Ants might be able to run telecommunication networks better than humans: #1, #2, and #3 (thanks Ulic).

Swarm Intelligence: An interview with Eric Bonabeau on ants and solving real problems in the business world.

Ant Farms

Official Uncle Milton Web site: Maker of the popular Ant Farms. Ant Farm pictures of Year 1959, Year 1969 (mirror), and Kramer's Ant Farm (a short video clip on YouTube; seen on VideoSift)) seen in "The Pool Guy", Episode 118, Season 7. Thanks Myrmecos. Uncle Milton's Ant Farm (archived copy since Yesterdayland is dead): Synopsis, Memories, and messages. Ant Farm Celebrates Its 50th Ant-iversary.

AntWorks -- Modern design (gel) based on a 2003 NASA Space Shuttle experiment to study animal life in space and test how ants successfully tunnel in microgravity.

Antimal House -- "Gel Ant Habitats" with different themes like BeerAnts.

Modern Mechanix shows an Ant Farm, with its handle, from July 1933.

Instructables shows how to build a Luxury Ant Farm: The mANTsion.

Ant Rearing with different methods.

The Austin Ant House -- Frank Eugene Austin and the first commercial Ant Farm.

Plastic cake box as a different living habitat for ants. Thanks simgarie.

Ant Farm Central: A site for people who want to find out the whats, whys and wherefores of ant farming.

Can't have real ants (including a queen)? Try a virtual one like Virtual Formicidae Emporium (a simulated formicarium in Java; thanks errthum.survivorsucks) or Ant's Life Studio (Flash required; (thanks technogad and MrILoveTheAnts), but you still have to feed the ants.

A public service announcement (PSA) on keeping ants in capivity: Download and/or watch 5.7 MB DivX video or Google Video. It was from The Ant Bully DVD.

G4TV article, Screen Saver 1/1/2004 episode video, and /. story on Ant Farm Case Mod: Give your personal computer (PC) the creepy crawlies with this unique mod. Thanks nTrfAce.

Insect Fear Film Festival had the world's largest Ant Farm in 2004.

Six-legged pets steal the limelight in Berlin: German children are marching to pet shops to follow a pricey new trend for ant-breeding. Also, see CNN's story.

Japanese won over by tiny, no-fuss 'pets' (use BugMeNot for a dummy account): 'Working people nowadays... don't even have a chance to take notice of ants'. Ants are popular in Japan. Thanks Bounty80..

Parables, Stories, Tales, Poems, Songs, Humor, Drink, and Food

Quotes Related to Ants. Updated: 3/29/2008.

Top Signs You Are an Ant Geek/a Myrmecophile: Do you have these symptoms? Updated: 8/18/2007.

The Bestiary in Industry and Prudence from all beliefs.

In the Bible, read the verses in Proverbs 6:6-8 (audio) and 30:25 (audio) about God's ants. For details, read and/or listen to "Wisdom of the Ants" lecture/sermon, To Be Like the Ant, (Real Player), read Pastor Kirk's sermon notes (6/15/2003; Adobe Acrobat Reader) on "Five God-Designed Values for Financial Freedom", Sluggard what in the world is that, The Indispensability of Theological Meta-Ethical Foundations for Morality, and How Strong is the Ant. Bible Articles: The Ant Farm, Charlie's Ants (cartoon strip; Chinese Version), What Can You Say To an Ant?, and The Ant... (Thanks Fletch). Watch a short Tangle about ants.

Ant Farm: A story about Eric Cho and how ants affected his life.

Surah 27. The Ant, The Ants. Here's a detailed article about it.

The Ants and I and more: Kamat's Potpourri With stories and drawings.

The Miracle In The Ant: These millimeter-sized animals have an excellent ability for organization and specialization. They in fact manifest Allah's superior power and unmatched creation. Also, a DVD exists and a streaming Flash video (thanks MrILoveTheAnts).

Mythologies, folklores, and legends: Aeacus, Amphisbaena (Mother of Ants; more), Daedalus (more), Kaang, Muryans, and Myrmidons (Ant-People; more).

Ants in the Brain: Two fiction, classic urban legends.

The Origin of Ants -- A Chinese folk-story.

Insects in Chinese Pictographs includes a legend with a black ant and where the knot in ants' waist came from.

An Ant's Life is No Picnic: An Ant Farm and an invasion in the kitchen.

A Tale of Ants: Ants and Human duke it out on Thanksgiving Day of 1979.

Nick and the Army Ants: When Nick met the army ants for the first time in his life.

Ants Will Eat Us: A short story.

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The Grasshopper and the Ants. Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants from Silly Symphony cartoon (8 minutes). IMDb for details. Screen captures: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10. YouTube (#1 and #2) has the eight minutes and 26 seconds video. Also, read The Ant and the Grasshopper (Clintonian version; A Liberal/Modern Version/Parody) and 2008 version.

The Last Ant: A short story in January 1995 while under notice of impending layoff, using an ant farm as a crucial metaphor and general idea.

A short journal with photographs of the FMA cadre to shooting practice. Ants were seen and mentioned.

The Ant & the Dragonfly: A story from the Middle East.

Bugs in the computer: Sun Microsystems, Inc. knows why Brazil is known to its native inhabitants as the kingdom of the ants.

Ants in yer... Pants? NOT! (Toshiba notebook/laptop); Ants Invade Apple iBook.

Ants In My Nokia Mobile Phone (A Yahoo! account is required).

Ants in Omniview switchboxes: An e-mail story of ants invading a network switchbox. Thanks nTrFace.

Argentine ants invade a network hub.

Ants had taken up residence in a guy's external hard drive: Ontrack and Computerworld (seen on /.).

A photograph showing ants nesting in a guy's phone box, affecting his digital subscriber line (DSL) connection and phone system.

A 38 seconds YouTube video showing crazy ants in a computer mouse.

One minute and 19 seconds Break video, from VideoSift: "Creepy Surprise. -- Wife asked me to try to get the printer to work, since she was having some problems with it. Imagine my surprise when I looked inside..."

Leiningen vs. the Ants: A classic short story.

Battle of the Ants: Human attacks the Northern Mounds, but ants fight back. This story is not for kids.

The Ants: A short story (translated from German) between an ant war and World War II.

The Ants and I: Kamat narrates a shocking and gruesome experience in rural Bengal involving ants and Santali tribals.

Gaia's Army Invades My Kitchen: A true tale of magic, hubris, and one man's mad struggle against the might of Gaia's Army... Thanks komkommerkoning.

"How the Ant Made a Bargain": An original folktale.

The Ants Go Marching: Songs and rhymes for kids to read and listen.

Poems with ants: Black Ant and I, The Ants, Ants, 16 Little Ants, Humans and Ants, Ants Marching, Dead Line, and Ants.

Limericks on ants.

John Anderson and the Ants: A story about ants and Hugmups.

Dave Matthews Band's Ants Marching song with its music video clip. Lyrics and others are on the official Web site.

Queen Invicta (Fire Ant Invincible): #1 and #2 -- A song on Fire Ant (Solenposis).

Lyrics from Blondie's The Ant of the Giant Ants song. You can listen to a short audio sample: Windows Media/Real Media.

Hyponotic Clambake's Ant Man lyrics (PDF). Thanks Mr. Lewis.

Ants In My Pants with lyrics and audio samples created by Gunnar Madsen.

Rammstein's Links 2 3 4 music video is ant-themed with ants partying and attacking. See a series of screen captures and watch music videos Flash required).

More ant songs from a newsgroup.

The Story of the Ants: Tenants.

Anthology derives from the phrase "Ant Hology", and the project was so named because in 1967 Ringo (The Beatles) had become very interested in ants as a hobby. This is a joke. Thanks Kalimant.

Other Sight Seeings, Cartoons, Jokes, Etc.

Notes: Many more in this forum thread. IMDb is an acronym for Internet Movie Database.

Live camera shots: Steve's Ant Farm (first one ever on the Internet and Java required), AntCast at the National Museum (NHM) in United Kingdom/U.K., AntCam (dead/broken; has information on ants).

WildlifeNearYou has a few places (e.g., zoos) with live ants from around the world.

Ant Exhibitions at California Academy of Science (closed on 5/8/2005; still have army ants in its rainforest area since they tried to escape [thanks MrILoveTheAnts]), Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute (SASI) (Tucson Arizona; 1/28 - 3/3/2000), and Museum of Natural History Vienna.

Ant photograph galleries: Myrmecos and Ajay Narendra.

Commune: Photographs, drawings, and notes from Kazita's ant nests. Japanese reading supported.

GigaPan has several interactive shots of ants.

Java applets of 3D ants getting an item: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and sources. There are also Windows programs and screen saver.

Ant Farm Simulator (Shockwave player required)) -- "A real-time 3D simulation that demonstrates how ants use pheromones to communicate. The student is presented with an interactive 3D environment where 2 competing ant colonies are searching for food. The student is able to interact with the virtual ants and the environment to see how the ants will react to changes in their surroundings."

JavaAntz: A boid Java ant simulator.

Army Ants: Comics by Michael T. Desing.

Ant-Man: A comic book series by Marvel Comics. See official information for Eric O'Grady and Scott Lang. With Spider-Man (look at #103).

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #79 comic book issue from September 1964.

Von Mohl Vs. The Ants -- "A 7-page story from Charlton's Strange Susspense Stories #20 from 1954.

The Man in The Ant Hill, and Tales to Astonish 27 (January 1962).

SmallWorld: A humorous look at the insect kingdom, featuring the ants from Colony 54.

Hello. I'm Klyde Morris.

Klyde Morris Comic Strips: Aviation's Only Ant!

Fabio Vettori Official Site: Italian cartoons and calendars with ant characters. Google's Poor English translation.

Princess Pepper Cloud and Her Ants.

Slim Hick: The World's Only Singing Cowboy Ant. Thanks Biddybot.

Super Bugs: This article contains information about ants and their strengths compared to animals.

Antz: Internet Movie Database, Trailers: New York Times and ANTZ for information on Antz: An animated/comedy film from DreamWorks SKG. Download and listen to the movie soundtrack samples at Amazon.

Ant Bully: An upcoming movie (8/4/2006) about a boy who was shrunk down to an ant size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins after flooding the colony. Movie-List has more trailers and television/TV spots.

A Bug's Life: A Disney movie featuring ants and other bugs. IMDb for information.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Another Disney movie has a scene of an ant. A screen capture.

Weaving Ants (IMDb) on an IMAX screen.

Sci-Fi/Thriller Movies: Them! (1954; a screen capture, Google Video for the 1.5 hours movie (seen on VideoSift), and a trailer on YouTube), The Naked Jungle, Phase IV (1973; Low quality-screen captures of an incorrect queen ant: #1, #2, #3), and The Empire of the Ants (1977; watch the trailer, a video clip, audio clips, etc.; RealMedia video preview/Windows Media video clip; The Daily Show did a funny short spoof [download the 1.1 MB zip file or watch the streaming video; DivX v5.2.1+ codec required] with a scene. thanks Biddybot]), Marabunta/Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! can be watched on Google Video (two parts: #1 (47.5 minutes) and #2 (42.5 minutes)), and Glass Trap (2004; Regent Entertainement Group's trailer [screen captures; zipped 4.4 MB local copy]). Movies about giant ants and "Them" Ants Crash The Atomic Picnic" (Thanks turnstyle) on how this classic movie started ant movies.

The Scorpion King movie had a scene with rendered fire ants. Hulu has a video clip. Screen captures: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6.

The fourth Indiana Jones movie (The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) had computer generated ants scenes: A sped up video and a behind the scene (also on Dailymotion).

The Bone Snatcher horror movie had ant references. Screen captures.

From Spider-Man DVD Behind the Scene Feature (Goblin's Lair -> Spider-Mania -- an E! Entertainment Special) -- Screen captures: #1, #2, #3, and #4.

A very short scene showing leaf cutter ants carrying leaves in 1492: Conquest of Paradise. screen capture.

Road Kill: Ant -- #1, #2, and #3: A short video of an ant carrying a pig in the middle of the road.

Bug Love (Flash required -- An animated short illustrating two ants' battle to win the love of a ladybug.

Captain Happy Ant and the Incredible Sticky-Bun (watch it 5.5+ minutes video streaming online: #1 or #2) -- An animated insect finds a bun-tastic dessert and drags it home through a series of unlikely adventures. Captain Happy Ant is true to his name even when things get really sticky.

The Unlucky Ant is a sad and mean Flash music video.

Ants: A two minute stop-motion animation with clay figures.

A 60 seccond rendered animation designed as a cautionary tale titled Intelligent Machine.

Ant Troubles: A 22 seconds computer rendered animation of an ant being rescued.

Minuscule shows off computer rendered video shorts. Here is a four minutes and 47 seconds example (seen on VideoSift).

A 3.25 musical YouTube video to show 3D animation the adventures of an ant exploring a kitchen.

A rendered cutscene showing an ant getting squished in finding food.

An Ant's Life (a silent 45 second rendered video): An ant scavenges a trash can for a meal. She finds a doughnut and takes it into its ant-hole. But it is still not satisfied. It carelessly wanders across a street where its indulgence leads to its demise.

Journey -- A short animation about the adventures of a curious ladybug looking at ants, butterfly, etc.

Danger Mouse season 10 episode 2: "Ants, Trees and ... Whoops-A-Daisy" with ant monuments and masks (a series of screen captures and on YouTube in three parts: 1, 2, and 3 ).

Ants & Termites: A brief list of TV shows with ants ~~and termites~~.

Ants in the Plants. An old classic cartoon about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants.

The Ant and the Aardvark: A 1969 cartoon series based on an ant eater trying to eat ants.

Disney's Uncle Donald's Ants/Tea For Two Hundred: Ants follow Donald Duck home by following a leaky sugar bag and eventually begin to take over his house. Screen captures: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, and #14. YouTube has a streaming six minutes video.

Travels of An Ant/Puteshestviye muravya: A funny ant animated short film from Russia. IMDb; 9.5 minutes YouTube video (with English subtitles) and screen captures (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, and #15).

Warner Brothers' Ant Pasted with Elmer Fudd: A 7 minutes Looney Tunes cartoon with a hidden message. Read information on Internet Movie DataBase (IMDb) and viewers' comments. Screen captures: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, and #12.

Porky's Ant: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, or #7: Porky goes on safari for the rare pygmy ant of Central America, valued at $150,000.

Six minutes YouTube video of "Lilliput Put" cartoon with red ants.

Two screen captures from The Tick episode (a cartoon series) titled "Ants in the Pants!": Giant ant and queen ant on a microphone.

Gets Ants In Its Pants TV episode from The Magic School Bus. Also, see screen captures (361 KB).

Pee-Wee's Playhouse has an episode (S1E8) titled "Ants In Your Pants". See TV.com for details and screen captures.

A five minutes YouTube video showing Les Forumis/The Ants from Mio Mao. Seen on VideoSift.

Arthur's episode (Ants in Arthur's Pants) was Arthur's experiment with ants and an Ant Farm he bought. View screen captures (296 KB).

The Simpsons: Episode 515/1F13 (Deep Space Homer) when Homer Simpson goes to space with an Ant Farm. Video clips (RealMedia video clip/ downloadable Windows Media video clip/Hulu/YouTube from VideoSift; Hulu's video clip of the aftermath), a transcript, and screen captures (#1, #2, #3, #4, and #5) of the episode. Two screen captures from episode 1218/CABF14 (Trilogy of Error): whole picture (Thanks Chris Jones) and close-up of the ant (Thanks Rotcav) from a newspaper scene. Episode 1310/DABF04 (Half-Decent Proposal): Screen captures and a video clip (Windows Media video clip or RealMedia video clip). A screen capture of an ant trail on Homer Simpson from episode EABF19 (The Fat and the Furriest). Screen captures and a video clip (373 KB; DivX) from Fraudcast News (1522 EABF18 SI-1518) episode. Screen captures and videos (Google Video or download a 1.9 MB zipped XviD file) from 24 Minutes (1821 JABF14) episode. A screen capture of Nelson Muntz attempts to burn a worker ant and saying "Well, enough for an ant." from Dial 'N' for Nerder (S19E14). Two huge screen captures from Wedding for Disaster (S20E15). A huge screen capture from Father Knows Worst (S20E18).

Justice League had ants and an Ant Farm mentioned in Episode #59 (The Greatest Story Never Told). See screen captures and a video clip (638 KB; DivX).

Muppets Tonight! had a short ant skit with Rick Moranis (season 1; episode 12): Screen captures and a DivX video clip (1 MB).

Hulu has a 2.5 minutes Sesame Street skit, from season 17, episode 961) titled "The Count's Picnic" -- "The Count counts things that ants carry away."

Futurama (Episode S05E06/4ACV04 (3/2/2003): Less Than Hero. Screen captures: #1, #2, #3, and #4.

King of the Ant Hill (4E13/KH113/S1E11): Screen captures from King of the Hill -- Hank's expensive new lawn is overrun by fire ants.

A musical 7 minutes and 13 seconds DailyMotion video (mirror) showing singing ants from "Garfield & Friends" in "The Picnic Panic" (S5E41). Jaime2000.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode 75 had a short scene on fire ants. Screen captures (#1 and #2) and a transcript.

Siggi - The Little Ant: A 2 minutes and 48 seconds cartoon of an ant looking for his (her!) old friend.

A 21 seconds video segment from Spy vs. Spy (episode #219) on MadTV: Screen captures and a DivX video clip (358 KB); also on YouTube).

A RealMedia video clip/Windows Media video clip of Eric Cartman mentioning ants in a South Park episode (contains bad words).

Happy Tree Friends' Crazy Antics (watch it on Atom or official Web site), A Hard Act To Swallow, Tongue Twister (watch it on Atom, official Web site or Hulu), and Suck It Up (watch it on official Web site or Atom): Ants use violence on ant eaters. Warning: Not for kids!

The Zanti Misfits episode (S1E14) from The Outer Limits (classic science fiction TV series from the 1960s). Watch a short video clip: RealMedia or Windows Media or the whole episode (51 minutes and 40 seconds) on Hulu. Even action figures (thanks Biddybot).

Alf S3E21 (Funeral for a Friend) with Alf and his new pets, ants, in Uncle Milton's Ant Farm. Screen captures: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, and #16. YouTube has the full episode online (Americans only).

MacGyver Season 1, Episode 5/6 (Trumbo's World) was about a swarm of normal sized ants attacking a jungle village in Brazil. Screen captures (1.5 MB). Full episode online: CBS and YouTube.

AOL has a streaming 47 minutes and 19 seconds video of Wonder Woman Season 3, Episode 6 (Formicida): A female mad scientist controls and unleashes thousands of strong carpenter ants on a company to stop them from manufacturing a deadly insecticide. Screen captures (798 KB).

Three hilarious Walk on the Wild Side season 1 skits: Episode 1/pilot's 40 seconds showing ants vs. a beetle with its security alarm (YouTube or download a 4 MB zipped M4V video file), and episode 5's 37 seconds YouTube/CollegeHumor video [an army ant soldier doing a roll call on fast ants].

A 15 seconds TV cartoon commercial (downloadable video/MPEG is about 2.3 MB) for The Augusta Chronicle with a red worker ant carrying a lamp to her ant hill.

BN Cookies television/commercial/spot with ants on YouTube (14 seconds).

Bayer's Home Control Ants TV Commercial: RealMedia Video Clip or Windows Media Video Clip.

A 15 seconds television advertisement/spot/commercial (watch it on YouTube or download the 3.9 MB zipped QuickTime MOV file) to see red harvester ants carrying a sneaker from PUMA.

A cute and funny Philco television advertisement showing three crazy ants (YouTube; 902 KB zip file on local server) using loud bassy music to fly for fun.

Juicy Fruit - Ant on YouTube: A funny television spot showing a sugar-happy worker ant turns on her master. Thanks David Farley.

T' Light commercial of Crematogaster ants going crazy over a sugar cube: MPEG (8.3 MB; best quality), RealMedia video clip, and Windows Media video clip. Thanks Teleutotje.

Two 30 seconds Google Videos (#1 from VideoSift and #2) showing midgets, giant black ants, and a television advertisement for Hulett Pest Control.

3 Cartoon Animations With a Red Ant Character by Animink, Inc.

Karincilar ('Ants' in Turkish): A 1:55 minutes video clip rendered animation of ants moving things.

Royal Canadian Air Farce has a few skits related to ants (watchable with Real's Players): Chicken Cannon News (4/14/2002; between 2:40 minutes and 5.5 minutes) and Military Animal Trainer (3/28/2003; starts at 2:55 minutes mark).

Fracas Giant America uses ants to gets its message across. Seen on Forumis.

Antz Pantz commercial (requires the latest version of Apple QuickTime). Ants crawling on a woman's legs, but...

Saturn's 2002 VUE television launch: commercial/spot/advertisement (Google Video, YouTube, and a downloadable 7.1 MB QuickTime file).

A 20 seconds YouTube video showing Volvo's television advertisement/spot/commercial.

Three video clips of American television (TV) commercial/spot/advertisement (ad) Budweiser commercials: Ant hill party commercial (RealMedia Video Clip, Windows Media Video Clip or YouTube), Anteater and Ants (RealMedia Video, Windows Media Video, and YouTube) and Recycling Ants. Many Chinese ones on Tudou (#1 and #2).

Bud Light's Ant Dance (1.5 MB zipped WMV; also on YouTube) television commercial/spot/advertisement.

Metacafe shows a 45 seconds video clip showing Cruzcampo beer with ants partying after having a zip.

Two YouTube videos showing ants and Doritos chips: #1 and #2.

America's Funniest Home Videos showed a funny 17 seconds video clip of small black ants carrying a green piece of Froot Loops up the wall. Screen capture; Video clips: YouTube, DivX (451 KB; codec and player), Windows Media (571 KB; player), or RealMedia (333 KB; player).

A 39 seconds YouTube video showing a lone ant carrying a pill. Thanks James Thomson, Funny Animal Videos.

Rant -- A 9-minutes video of two ants that are handed urgent orders: capture a sandwich and bring back the bologna, or don't come back at all. Thus begins an action-adventure buddy picture that's short on size, but long on legs.

Aki Vs. Ants, Picnic! -- A cheesy pesticide spot on television and YouTube (29 seconds).

Chocolate Ant Eggs -- A spoof/parody of a television/TV commercial/spot/advertisement. Watch its 1.75 minutes video on YouTube.

A rendered silent short (4.7 MB; 45 seconds; DivX) by Jayesh Kapadia.

Cartoon Network's "We'll Be Right Back" clip (9 seconds): Look at a screen capture, RealMedia video clip, or Windows Media video clip.

A Nickelodeon's short streaming video showing ants grubbing, singing, and relaxing during a picnic.

MTV ID cartoon short (streaming video) with ants carrying television sets.

YouTube (#1 or #2) has a cute and amusing six minutes and 50 seconds video clip spoofing a space rocket launch test with ants.

Andrew's Antics: A funny video clip showing an accidental(?) prank of a guy, who just woke up and went to brush his teeth. However, he ran into new friends... QuickTime required.

Ant Farm (QuickTime required; 8.9 MB): A short video spoof of a new reality TV series with ants in an Ant Farm.

Ants were mentioned in David Letterman's Late Show Top 10 Lists on 10/2/1998, 6/11/1996 (#8), 7/24/1992, and unknown date.

Christian's and Scott's Interactive Top Ten List Archive that mentions ants: #1, #2, #3, and #4.

A clever outdoor advertisement that involves ants and drawing images for "Sugar Free" product. There is a QuickTime video (streaming with information and a downloadable 14 MB MOV file) and photographs (arrow,ice cream, muffin, and cup). Seen on Digg.

Ants Need Lovin' Too: An ant helps an elephant, but...

Ant Jokes: #1, #2, and #3.

Yak: Summer's worst four-letter word -- ants. Ant Humor. Thanks Laurence T. May Jr.

Ants In Space: Is there any uninfested frontier?

Space ANTS: Futuristic Probes to Cruise Asteroid Belt. Thanks Zanti Agent.

As the Worm Turns-Ant-icipating Problems: A funny story about ants and computer software relationship.

The Ant FAQ (none of these are true) in Monty Python style by Dave Rogers.

The Onion spoofs with ants: Giant Six-Year-Old Devastates Area Ant Community, Chinese, Ants Announce Alliance (MP3 for an one minute audio story), Ants Demand 23.9-Hour Workday, and Ant Farm Teaches Children About Toil, Death. Thanks MrILoveTheAnts.

United States (U.S.) Forces Liberate Ant Colony from Oppressive Autocracy. Thanks Monkey Breath.

Ant Sole Survivor of Massacre By 8-Year-Olds: Just one ant survived a vicious massacre allegedly perpetrated by two eight-year-olds at a playground in this former Civil War city.

Ant Control Methods: Funny ways to kill ants.

Fire Ants (A 2001 Darwin Awards; Thanks RampageAI): This is NOT the proper way to defeat the ants.

Ant Hills: How they were built up. This link came from a newsgroup.

Download Ant's Icons or Moebius screen saver and interactive demonstration (A screen shot; A fast ATI Radeon 9600 or better video card required).

If you use Linux/UNIX, there are a few ant screen savers in XScreenSaver like Ant, Antinspect, AntSpotLight, and Moebius.

Ants built out of LEGO: Flik, Blacktron Attacker Ant, and 4 designs (thanks Xenon). Ant Worker/Ant Swarm's creations: #1 and #2.

Robot: Cybug Queen Ant.

Chernobyl Ant (more) for fishing.

AntiZoid is an interactive robot toy from InsectaZoids.

"The Biologically-Inspired Legged Locomotion Ant (BILL-Ant) is an 18-DOF hexapod with six passive DOF feet for force sensing, a 3-DOF neck and actuated mandibles with force sensing pincer plates (28-DOF total)..."

Antsy Ants and Ants and Ant Hills Gift Mugs: Custom decorated full color photo coffee gift mugs.

Myran: A soft toy ant.

Ants section on Yahoo! Shopping's Insect Lore Store. Books, videos, Ant Farms, toys, etc.

Ant stuff on Etsy: Buy and sell handmade things. Seen in The Ant Room.

Ant Gifts and Merchandise: Flags, Games, Plush, Rubber Stamps, etc.

A Google Video showing a ritual involving hundreds of poisonous and painful bullet ants in a glove.

Food and Drinks Related to Ants

Fire ants (leaf-cutter ants!) are a rainy season treat deep in Venezuela's savannah. A spicy concoction considered a diversion for Pemon who largely subsist on a vegetarian diet.

Ant soup: a unique refreshment -- "Central residents eat a sour soup made with ants' eggs to cool off on hot days."

Brits move into edible Colombian ant market: Colombian supplier to export 500kg of local culonas (fat-*ss) ants to the UK.

Cherry Ant Candy -- "Not just for picnics anymore!"

Cake Wreckers: "Oh, Bugger" -- "... giant, disturbingly life-like, (yet mercifully plastic) ants - or as bakers are calling them, 'the new sprinkles.' ..."

Chocolate Covered Ants recipe.

Alcohol: Bullant Ginger Beer (thanks AntJulie) and Red Ant Lager (thanks Myrmecos1).

Foreign Ant Web Sites
Use an online translator to translate popular languages like Google's and AltaVista's.

Chinese: Chinese Antweb (thanks hdxtx55555).

French (Thanks Polyergus for some of the links): APEF: Fourmis -- Association Pour l'Elevage des Fourmis (APEF: Association for the Breeding Ants), Acide Formik (thanks k2rantitache), Forumis -- Forum Antslab, Forumis.info, Les Fourmis (The Ants), Les Fourmis (The Site of the Ants), Myrmeco Forumis (thanks Grey), and Myrmecophoto.