The fires in California are the largest since record keeping began. The worst part of fire season is yet to come so there is going to be lots more of this.
The largest recorded contiguous colony of ants in the world stretches 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) from northern Italy, through the south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain, and is made up of a species of Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) introduced into Europe approximately 80 years ago.
The ants have shown the ability to recognize each other even though they may come from opposite ends of the colony. The discovery of the "super colony" is the result of research carried out by Swiss, French and Danish scientists whose findings were published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Research suggests that the Argentine ant super colony could even straddle oceans. Based on behavioral observations and genetic comparisons, related Argentine ants have been found not just living across Europe, but also in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii and California, USA. It's believed the super colony originated in South America some 100 years ago, before spreading around the world – in part via cargo on ships.
The workers of this species are 2–3 millimetres in length.
Moral of the story. No matter how much ant poison you set out, you're not getting rid of the ants
You never know when it be useful to know Ironically, I paid no attention in music class in school because lets just say that three blind mice blasted on the recorder didn't quite tickle my musical tastes. Only when I got in high school when I first started playing guitar did I wish I had at least paid attention in those old classes.
The shorter the better. I hate reading through paragraph after paragraph after paragraph. Even before texting back when I was in high school, we would be given a assignment. Most people would write out 4 - 5 pages, I would sum everything up in less than 2 small paragraphs. Had more than one argument with the teachers, they always ask me to write more. I would say to them "did I sum everything up?" Did I miss anything?" They tell me I covered everything in what I wrote up, then I say to them "well why am I standing in front of your desk with you asking me to write more? Would you rather waste 20 minutes reading some long winded crap that said nothing or get all the important points in less than a 2 minute read?"
Same go every assignment, I refused to write one word more than was needed.
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