What is the purpose of an ant hill?

Excellent question. I have a few thoughts to drop here. You see, ants are all social insects, meaning they all live together and take shelter together. Most other social insects also have nests, see wasps, termites, bees. What else do they have in... read more

Ant hill to ants is same what a house means to us. Termite hills (called as termitarium) is a fully air conditioned house with chambers like royal cell (for queen), brood chamber, food store, and farming chamber etc. read more

Ant hill art is a growing collecting hobby. It involves pouring molten metal (typically non-toxic zinc or aluminum), plaster or cement down an ant colony mound acting as a mold and upon hardening, one excavates the resulting structure. In some cases, this involves a great deal of digging. read more

Ant Mounds Not all ant species create large ant mounds. Some ants build smaller ant craters like the craters between concrete gaps and asphalt slabs that pavement ants build. read more