[rubberstamp]

I have always wondered how they transfer such knowledge down the generations and more importantly how they gathered such knowledge in the first place. There is striking similarity between humans and ants in group work and working towards common goals necessary for survival. There are brown and green aphids and ants breeds them keeping a particular ratio - one aphid type makes honey that tastes great for them and the other aphid type with honey not that great but it secrets something onto plants which delays flowering and thus prevents plants from dying off earlier after flowering, thus increasing the value ants extracts from a plant. Think for a moment the steps involved from discovering aphids. They are brilliant!