Antman by Robert V. Adams

Author:Robert V. Adams [Adams, Robert V.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Taylor street Publishing
Published: 2012-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

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Once Graver got the hang of setting the antennation machine up, it was easy to pass messages on. Communication was so effective among the driver ants that moments after changing the signal, a ripple of responses would go along the files travelling the pathways into the woods and out again. He was pretty well beside himself with delight about the floodlights. He leapt about his solitary shelter talking to himself like a person possessed.

'Yes, turn the lights up. Keep focusing on the nest,' he called out loud. 'The more heat you generate, the faster they can move towards their targets.'

The level of activity in the insects was positively correlated with the temperature. The hotter it was, the better. Up to the point, that is, where the increased heat caused their systems to break down. Once this happened individual ants would progress quickly from hyperactivity to death. This was the fate of an observation nest of Formica Sanguinea, slave-making ants, which he had left on a window sill in the laboratory, returning a few hours later to find the sun had come out and was shining directly on the glass over the foraging area. Virtually all the ants had emerged to sun themselves and forage, before dying in a frenzy of over-activity.

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