Ant Islands

Ants have developed some interesting survival techniques, but I can imagine many would be happy enough without fire ants surviving at all.

It's no wonder that ants are one of the more successful species on the planet. They know how to work to survive.

@Rollo1 Because they know how to make a good team.

It was very sudden, which makes it even harder for people to prepare or evacuate.

@Rollo1 We had a spring thaw that came one quickly one year. It caused an ice jam on the river, and we lived a few miles away from the river and actually where it jammed. The water was everywhere, it actually poured into our basement windows, our deep freezer began to float, and when the lid swung open, it quickly filled with water and sunk. My parents had just purchased a side of beef. We were evacuated and I can never forget that terrible incident.

I am not sure about teaching us. Ant duties are pretty much programmed in. They survive, but there will be some at the bottom who will drown.

@Rollo1 I guess what I meant is they often act as a whole to ensure survival as a group. Individuals sacrifice their lives so the group can survive. When I think of the way even in the face of global warming human individuals keep thinking and acting in selfish ways, it unsettles me (and that's an understatement). I don't think any of us should decide who, if any of us, will drown, but if we are all to try to think of our own needs and greeds first without considering the group as a whole, no one will survive, or if they do, won't find it worth surviving. Of course, we are not ants. We have our own strengths and weaknesses as people.

I have never seen one of these. We have red ants but I don't think they are fire ants.

@Rollo1 Now that i think about it, that was on macgyver, I wonder if it's really a thing. lol

It's amazing, yet it only works because they have no individual will.

@Rollo1 That sounds less exciting, it makes them more like mini robots.

With the amount of flooding, they will have to stay that way for some few days anyway.

They are all programmed like the borg.

I guess when you are that tiny, there is only strength in numbers.

I guess that is why that no matter how many ants you step on, there are still billions of them.

I know, you don't necessarily want to see fire ants survive, but I guess they want to survive quite a lot.

Without a professor to make a radio out of coconuts, they're doomed any way.

@Rollo1 I remember watching that show from time to time, and there were many visitors to that island that came and went while leaving everyone there. The big joke was that they were able to construct all that fancy stuff, and practically make nuclear fission out of the materials there, but couldn't build a boat...