And they do that by each year sending out the reproductives those are the ones with wings on a mating flight.

So every year, on the same day and it's a mystery exactly how that happens each colony sends out its virgin, unmated queens with wings, and the males, and they all fly to a common place. And they mate.

On 20 December 2004, two (2) F 4 Turkish military aircraft coming in one formation, one (1) B 200 and one (1) Cougar, entered the FIR of Nicosia, carrying out a total of three (3) violations of international air traffic regulations and two (2) violations of the national airspace of Cyprus, as follows

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Two Mi 24s and a Puma IAR 330L were destroyed, while the Mi 8T's fin was cut off by another missile.

Ants never make more ants colonies make more colonies.

Ants are a classic example workers work for queens and queens work for workers.

She lays eggs, she feeds the larvae so an ant starts as an egg, then it's a larva.

Now ants most ants, including these, don't see very well.

(c) The Cougar Turkish military aircraft took off from the illegal airport of Tymbou, violating the national airspace of the Republic of Cyprus, flying over the occupied area of Morfou and over the Kokkina pocket, before landing at the same airport.

(b) The second Cougar Turkish military aircraft took off from the illegal airport of Krini, violating the national airspace of the Republic of Cyprus, before landing at the illegal airport of Tymbou, from where it departed on the same day towards the FIR of Ankara.

Lions and more lions. We're surrounded by lions.

So it starts out with zero ants, just the founding queen, and it grows to a size of about 10 or 12 thousand ants when the colony is five.

The lions!

That's why we build space shuttles and cathedrals while the rest of the world sticks sticks into the ground to extract termites.

And when we dig up nests we find they're about as deep as the colony is wide, so about a meter deep for the big old nests.

So, the ants in the older colony that seem to be more stable are not any older than the ants in the younger colony.

So that's only about 25 percent of the colony, and they're the oldest ants.

Not just among the lions, but away from them as well.

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It is the lions.

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No ant directs the behavior of any other ant.

And so my house came down, I received my first patent against carpenter ants, termites and fire ants.

When one ant touches another, it's smelling it, and it can tell, for example, whether the other ant is a nest mate because ants cover themselves and each other, through grooming, with a layer of grease, which carries a colony specific odor.

(b) The Cougar Turkish military aircraft took off from the illegal airport of Krini, violating the national airspace of the Republic of Cyprus, flying over the occupied area of Morfou, before landing at the Kokkina pocket, from where it took off and landed at the illegal airport of Krini.

But in a small colony, it's likely to meet fewer foragers, just because there are fewer other foragers there to meet.

(a) The first Cougar Turkish military aircraft took off from the illegal airport of Krini, violating the national airspace of the Republic of Cyprus, flying over the occupied area of Morfou and the Kokkina pocket, before landing at the same airport.

And these four groups are just the ants outside the nest.

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Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests.

There's a lion out there. I think it's John's goateater.

And then the newly mated queens fly off somewhere, drop their wings, dig a hole and go into that hole and start laying eggs.

So this is the colony founded by a queen the previous summer.

The nest maintenance workers become foragers.

And the nest maintenance workers do that inside the nest, and then they come out of the nest carrying bits of dry soil in their mandibles.

Then, as soon as the ants the first group of ants emerge, they're larvae. Then they're pupae. Then they come out as adult ants.

Whereas the young, small colonies the two year old colonies of just 2,000 ants are much more variable.

And I thought, These ants, are they looking for the queen ant?

This is the nest of the mature colony, and there's the nest entrance.

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