Everyone should have a pet ant colony because when you wake up in the morning you can look in on them and they are all always so busy trying their best to organize their little world. It's very inspiring how they are always so excited to make little piles sorting all of the objects in their space.
The carpenter ants decided to move their main trash pile a few days ago and they are just completing the project this morning. All of the debris are neatly piled in corner for me to collect.
I still maintain that it ought to be possible to domesticate ants that would help you keep your electronics lab clean. They would be so good at sorting parts into little bins.
I don't know if they could sort used resistors by the band value, but they could separate the resistors from the LEDs and logic ICs.
@futurebird some people do not believe animals can think ahead or forward plan and yet your colony decided to do this and communicated that across the team. And they are 'just' ants
@futurebird every time I see your posts I feel really bad about the anti-disrupted when I was gathering rocks from my garden border.
I would pick up a rock and there would be a whole bunch of ants underneath it with little white pods and they would rush around to get the pods back underground. I didn’t dare put the rock back on them because I didn’t want to crush anything.
If this happens again, how do I help them? Do I give them the rock back? Do I just let them do their thing. They looked panicked but maybe that’s just ants.
If you can put the rock back without crushing them that would be best. (it drive me nuts when people lift a rock and put it back down without thinking.) But really ants are good at moving house. They will simply move under a new rock, or under the same rock if it is in a new location.
So, don't worry too much. They are adapted to living in a world that can change suddenly in titanic ways. And their haste and panic are how they survive.