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ANT FARM — Growing up in St. George in the 1990s, there weren't that many things to keep us kids entertained during the blazing hot summers. One activity that made it into our rotation was ant-watching in the many dirt lots in the neighborhood.
After suffering countless ant bites throughout childhood, we'd learned the hard way to stop trying to catch and collect ants in jars, and just watch them instead. It provided a close-up view of wars that happened between red and black ants and other dramatic ant happenings without getting into the fray.
One guy has tethered the entertainment value of ants with a YouTube channel called Lights Camera Ants. In one video, he gives his ants a Golden Oreo and their reaction is pretty surprising.
Of course, the ants immediately swarm the cookie — but instead of eating the cream on top, as their owner expects, they go for the likely-more-nutritious cookie beneath and begin to collect it with their jaws, using them like "ice cream scoopers" to deliver the cookie back to the nest.
"They were so smart. And now I really wonder, what should I give my ants next?" the video creator asks.
Utah is known as the Beehive State as a symbol of its industry, but maybe we haven't been paying as much attention to ants as we should — at least when it comes to the conservation of valuable resources.
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