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UPA Perpustakaan Universitas Jember

The architecture of subterranean ant nests: beauty and mystery underfoot

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Over the 100 million years of their evolution, ants have constructed or
occupied nests in a wide range of materials and situations. A large number of ant
species excavate nests in the soil, and these subterranean nests have evolved into
a wide range of sizes and architectures. On the basis of casts made of such nests,
this variation and the patterns that govern it are described. The possible functions of
architectural features are discussed, as are the behavioral โ€œrulesโ€ through which the
nests are created by worker ants.

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