Sentence examples for Columns of ants from inspiring English sources

Columns of ants patrol the woods hunting insects, sometimes to the top of tall trees, and dragging their prey back to their nest.

Throughout the day, hundreds of pupils flow like columns of ants from classroom to playground and back again, always making room for the next group.

At first, it resembles a column of ants, then a pulled suture.

"Every guy out there is either married, gay, or a human suit zipped around a column of ants".

Each is impatient for 9 a.m., when the door will swing open and the material remains of Mrs. Wetterhahn's existence will be scoured and gone over by estate-sale scroungers, advancing as relentlessly as a column of ants.

Looking at the traffic is like watching a column of ants, going hither and thither in a courteously chaotic way.

At Kartabo Beebe discovered the phenomenon known as an ant mill, a column of ants following itself in an endless loop until nearly all of them died of exhaustion.

Schwenk says the lizards hunt for columns of foraging ants and then pick the ants off one by one with their darting tongues.

At night, my neighbor Teodora and I patrolled the gardens and the coconut grove with our lanterns, killing the swift columns of cutter ants, pouring kerosene into the nests of the ants who ate our tomatoes and green beans, lettuce and squash.

To various degrees, around eighteen species specialise in following columns of army ants to eat the small invertebrates flushed by the ants, and many others may feed in this way opportunistically.

In 2007, Franks found that certain species of army ants use their bodies to plug potholes in the forest floor, thus creating a flatter surface for columns of foraging ants from their colony to run back to their nest.