Sentence examples for ant highways from inspiring English sources

Many Atta species clear ant "highways" radiating out from the nest, along which wide columns of their kind can march unhindered.

We trudged up a hill alongside what seemed to be rush hour on an ant highway: thousands of tiny black creatures somehow carrying leaves 20 times their own size.

It turned out that these optimal ants also spontaneously formed highways.

Ms. Srere leaves home at 5 30 a.m. to enter what she calls "the ant crawl" along State Highway 92, a two-lane road that snakes inland over the mountain.

Later visits to the field site (September 2007) found a single C. leonardi nests 20 25 m above the forest floor near plot 5. Aerial highways of ants extended 50 100 m across the canopy.

In the case of army ants, Dr. Couzin was intrigued by their highways.

Your ornamentals might not look like it but, they are a highway for ants and other pests to reach your home and find a path inside.

"From a brilliant new literary voice comes a groundbreaking exploration of how trails help us understand the world--from tiny ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.

A three-lane highway of army ants can stretch for as far as 150 yards from the ant nest, comprising hundreds of thousands of insects.

There are some in the valley, like retired Nevada highway patrolman Paul McGowan, who think the helipad opponents are "making a Mount Everest out of an ant hill" and that private property rights must be respected.

On sunny spring weekends, countless cars park on the sides of Texas highways and farm roads as crowds spill into fields of bluebonnets, heedless of snakes, scorpions, bees, fire ants, bull nettle and even barbed wire.