My grandfather is a carpenter.

He is a good carpenter.

The carpenter brought his tools along.

No ant directs the behavior of any other ant.

Our house was being destroyed by carpenter ants.

The first is that the experience of the ant of each ant can't be very predictable.

The ant isn't alone.

Let's look at that ant.

I apprenticed with a carpenter and learned about plumb, square and level.

What's in it for the ant?

And why was the ant doing it?

So, things happen to an ant colony.

Here from underneath is an ant foot, and when the claws don't dig in, that pad automatically comes out without the ant doing anything.

There's an ant crawling up a vertical surface.

So there's nothing in it for the ant.

One of the reasons I tell you about ants is because of my husband, who is in fact an ant taxonomist and when we got married, he promised to name an ant after me, which he did Procryptocerus nalini, a canopy ant.

So, an ant starts out somewhere near the queen.

And so my house came down, I received my first patent against carpenter ants, termites and fire ants.

What is this ant doing? What is this in aid of?

Tough women Soccer star Hope Solo, left, and Dexter actress Jennifer Carpenter, right, have similar face shapes and eyes

A great carpenter built all this stuff and you see, we made it look sort of pirate supply like.

And I thought, These ants, are they looking for the queen ant?

But I thought, perhaps the ant won't know, it'll probably move in.

And the answer is nothing. There's nothing in it for the ant.

And all ant colonies have in common that there's no central control.

Each ant, then, as it comes back in, is contacting other ants.

This is an ant that stores its colleagues' honey in its abdomen.

If an ant fell into my rice, I couldn't see that either.

(Prophet Sulaiman heard the voice of the she ant from far away.)

(Prophet Sulaiman heard the voice of the she ant from far away.)

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise

Go to the ant, thou sluggard consider her ways, and be wise

Go to the ant, thou sluggard consider her ways, and be wise

Look at the state of preservation still the ad mark of a carpenter. Look at the state of those artifacts.

When we talk about bottom up, decentralized phenomena, the ant colony is the classic metaphor, because, no individual ant knows what it's doing, but collectively ants are able to reach incredibly intelligent decisions.

Ants are not known to occur in Redwood trees, curiously enough, and we wondered whether this ant, this species of ant, was only endemic to that one tree, or possibly to that grove.

The former carpenter secured 27 of Papua's total 29 districts including Paniai on the way to the Presidential Palace in Jakarta.

The man imported all the materials from Japan, and he hired a Japanese carpenter to build it in the traditional style.

This is an eight legged scorpion, six legged ant, forty four legged centipede.

And we can mark them individually so we know which ant is which.

The simplest idea is that when an ant is in a small colony and an ant in a large colony can use the same rule, like I expect to meet another forager every three seconds.

What goals is this ant trying to achieve by climbing this blade of grass?

The same ant doesn't do the same task over and over its whole life.

And the amazing thing about this is that an ant lives only a year.