A standardized volume (~0.085 m3) of biomass was collected by cutting out random sections of the same area from 12 mounds using a plastic container to insure size consistency.
Led by Hans Erens, a team of researchers from Ghent University in Belgium and the University of Lubumbashi in DR Congo dated four large termite mounds using a technique called Carbon 14 dating.
Divide the potatoes between four plates, pop two fillets on top of each mound and, using a teaspoon, drizzle the plate with the olive puree.
Dig at least one air hole in the tunnel to the surface of the mound using your pole.
Mound used coffee grounds in a ring around garden plants to keep ants and slugs away.
Quick-growing lavenders, meanwhile, often just as quickly die, leaving a gaping hole where a graceful mound used to be.
With fighter jets patrolling overhead and sharpshooters staked out on some rooftops, Mr. Bush made his first stop in Manhattan about 4 40 p.m. "Thank you for your hard work," the president said from a mound of debris, using a bullhorn to send his message across a sea of red, yellow, blue and white hard hats.
There are ample examples of such innovations: the Shinkansen Bullet Train of the West Japan Railway inspired by the Kingfisher's beak, the Eastgate Building in Zimbabwe taking inspiration from termites' self-cooling mounds, and British Telecom using a biological model based on ant behaviour to overhaul its phone network.
"It's likely that these mounds were built using a simple 'bucket brigade' system, with thousands of people passing soil along from one to another using some form of crude container, such as a woven basket, a hide sack or a wooden platter". The researchers believe to complete such a feat in such a short amount of time would have required about 3,000 laborers.
The pitchers' mound, used as recently as Oct. 24 as the Red Sox marched through the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers to World Series victory, was removed and sod was shipped in from New Jersey to replace the dirt infield.
