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[Trivia Question]
First commercial formicarium
https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/Library_Bulletin/Apr1993/LB-A93-Cramer.html?mswitch-redir=classic
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
[Fact Off]
Ants stealing food from a pitcher plant
Ants swimming in pitcher plants: kinematics of aquatic and terrestrial locomotion in Camponotus schmitzi
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01937.x
Marauder ants and major worker piggyback rides
https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/10359.ch01.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155725/
https://sib.illinois.edu/suarez/local/suarez/uploads/2020/01/Wills_etal_2018_ARE.pdf
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_75-1
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043357
[Ask the Science Couch]
Ant size/strength
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/why-humans-cant-lift-as-much-as-ants
https://askdruniverse.wsu.edu/2017/07/20/how_ants_are_strong/
[Butt One More Thing]
Parasitic beetle disguised as ant butt
https://bmczool.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40850-016-0010-x
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