Comments on: Multibillion Ant “Megacolony” Set to Take Over the Globe

By: Turtles Thrive in Suburbia, Less So in Nature Preserve | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:07:18 +0000

[...] Content: Discoblog: Band of Turtles Takes Over JFK Tarmac, Delays Flights Discoblog: Multibillion Ant “Megacolony” Set to Take Over the Globe Discoblog: Bees on a Plane! 10,000 Bees Swarm an Airplane Wing in [...]

By: Band of Turtles Takes Over JFK Tarmac, Delays Flights | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:19:59 +0000

[...] swarm of animals to appear in odd places: Don’t forget about the bees on the plane and the ant colony that spans the globe. Maybe they’re all becoming zombies under the control of [...]

By: super colony of ants : Just my thoughts!

super colony of ants : Just my thoughts! — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:42:21 +0000

[...] there seems to be some evidence for this. Reported here and here. The original research appeared in the journal Insect [...]

By: Allison Bond

Allison Bond — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:43:05 +0000

This is Allison, the author of the post. BBC originally had the typo but modified the article later in the day to fix it… unfortunately, they changed it after that section had been copied and pasted into the article. The figure has subsequently been changed in the Discoblog post as well.

By: geanostra.com

geanostra.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:25:30 +0000

Multibillion Ant “Megacolony” Set to Take Over the Globe | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Are ants taking over the planet? Well, they’ve definitely spread, and they know which ants are on their colonial “team.” In fact, a single colony consisting of billions of Argentine ants, originally natives of South America, have spread onto ever…

By: Jeff Thiesen

Jeff Thiesen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:46:40 +0000

Why do I get the impression from reading these and other comments that certain people enjoy finding typos and other errors in any printed material? Does it make you feel empowered and superior to be right – if only for one moment?

“yeah and the mistake is not present in the source.”

ouch!

By: Markle

Markle — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:52:52 +0000

@3 Ernesto
“6000 Km = 3750 miles (aprox.), not 375.”

Yeah and the mistake is not present in the source.

By: Jumblepudding

Jumblepudding — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:37:40 +0000

This “larger unity” of species is an interesting adaptation. Are the west and east coast ants of Japan less related genetically, or do they fall under the same species as well? Is it possible that over the generations, the Argentine ants have a strategy that lets them resist genetic variance and mutation that would render them unrecognizable to each other?

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:20:23 +0000

6000 Km = 3750 miles (aprox.), not 375.

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:08:03 +0000

“So ants from the west coast of Japan fought their rivals from Kobe, while ants from the European super-colony didn’t get on with those from the Iberian colony.”

They’re picking up bad habits from humans.