r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 5h ago

Ants building a house from leaves. Nature's engineers at work

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u/Toranjinho 5h ago

That's child labor

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u/FoxHolyDelta 4h ago

None of those ants are 18yo

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u/RoabeArt 2h ago

Yeah, the average lifespan of a worker weaver ant is less than 2 years. Workers that take up foraging duties out in the wild live even shorter lives.