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That can't be true. Where Ants build their colonies, they also likely displace or destroy things that were in those places in the ground previously. Ant colonies can be huge. They can span miles.

They also will attack other insects and prey on them. They even sting humans. And have been used by indigenous people to torture captured prisoners during their conflicts.




There are plenty of ant species that are cooperative and integrate well with their environment.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-a...


"all the other"


Well, neither do the humans. Livestock biomass is now larger than wild animal biomass.


what do you think the word "other" is doing here? Pesticides, Herbicides, Fungicides. We kill everything around farms to actually farm.


Your clarification fails to clarify bud




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