Ants and other wingless critters

[Andy Collins]

Now I've always puzzled and pondered over this. You get to the top of a big tree, out on a limb somewhere, and there's ants etc. How long does it take an ant, without wings, to climb a tree? Has he climbed the tree, or has it taken several generations of ants to gradually move up and colonise the tree?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It takes a wood ant around 20 minutes to climb a big tree! i know cos i watched em!

 

Them wood ants with red middle sections have a right nip on em too!

 

and Oh how they blossom, the AT boys are posting threads on bugs and flowers, bless!

 

my work is done!

[Mozza]

I always thought the same about slugs and snails, Working nights on the railway, The trees got covered in them, Must take them ages to up there, Nearly as long as it took me

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I always thought the same about slugs and snails, Working nights on the railway, The trees got covered in them, Must take them ages to up there, Nearly as long as it took me

 

Its funny you should say that cos i saw a slug up a sycamore the other day and he told me he overtook you!

 

It was one of them ones with racing stripes, that hangs off its slime to mate!

 

Tiger slugs:thumbup:

[tree_beard]

ants are speedy little critters, and i'd think your average foraging ant could cover a good few hundred meters in the course of a day... just gettin er done

[Andy Collins]

But how do you know that the ant at the top of the tree is the same one you saw at the bottom, they all look the same to me??? Now I know that as ants are carrying food, they share the load with their comrades, alternating as they tire, so perhaps on a big climb they climb to a stage, then let a fresh ant carry on the climb, repeating this until one ant reaches the top to gather the food, then do the same on the way back to get the food to the nest?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I just watched one do a distance and estimated time, you pose an interesting question Andy, and the social structure within an ant colony is beyond our comprhension, a totaly selfless society.

 

awsome little guys them ants

[big fell!]

hahahaha loving this one...

[janey]

Now I've always puzzled and pondered over this. You get to the top of a big tree, out on a limb somewhere, and there's ants etc. How long does it take an ant, without wings, to climb a tree?

 

Quicker than me these days

[pro bros]

i dont know about how fast they climb but when ants hatch they have wings and can fly:confused1: