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Most know that ants dig in the dirt, or maybe they live in a decaying log. But ant nest diversity is vast.

Some ants make "carton" a paper-like substance used to construct nests in trees. Other ants use the silk of their larvae to bind leaves together for a green living nest. Some ground-nesting ants build flood levies in concentric circles to protect the entrance from monsoon rains. And of course, there are the wood ants who make massive mounds of pine needles.

Ants made all of these!

@futurebird Amazing. The walled city is quite inventive! The anthill in the last image would probably scare me a bit if I encountered it in real life. I'd be thinking, "so many ants...".

L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ

@wallingf @futurebird I've seen mounds like that all my life (not daily, but often enough that I know they'll be somewhere when I go out in the forest) and they never fail to be awesome!
Sooo many ants…

@Mabande @futurebird I saw a much smaller ant hill than that once in a state park in Wisconsin or perhaps Minnesota, but still much larger than anything I'd ever seen before. It's seems like an impressive feat of engineering, even for a populous colony.