They war with other colonies, they drive out several termite species rendering them extinct- along with other ground dwelling insects. They are also racist.

We need to keep in mind how much of the scientific framing (and thus our understanding of the matter) is shaped by Anglo ideology.

“Colony” and “queen” and “worker” are three such examples.

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and that little ant was me

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Is this a bit

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Ants are actually Posadists and have mostly achieved world communism:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ant-supercolony-spans-tho/

The ants invading your dog bowl are just reactionary holdouts.

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