Ant Ceramic Art on Etsy:

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird this makes me think of the cartoon High Note

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/HighNote

[levzadov@kolektiva.social]

@futurebird

We're waiting.

[neckspike@indiepocalypse.social]

@futurebird Ants would bake bread if they learned how to harness fire without cooking themselves

[megsouth@c.im]

@futurebird immediately thought that was a Pueblo piece! It’s gorgeous!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@goaty

Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay:

Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesii create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground.

They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes form during the rains based on the height of the walls.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@goaty

I've been in pottery classes and watched (human) people struggle to hand build a cup this nice and smooth and symmetrical. 👀

And they weren't even working on a cup the size of a small house.

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird oh wow, i wasn't aware of this at all, that's so damn cool! ants are awesome lil critters!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@goaty

I think these nests show how they are related to other wasps. We just get to see the things that winged wasps make more often.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@futurebird @goaty The internet has messed me up enough that the first thing that entered my broken brain was ‘it’s missing the ring’.

[asweetgentleman@mstdn.social]

@futurebird @goaty Ants will never cease to amaze me!😲

[emlove@kolektiva.social]

@futurebird The final ant on the inside is really cute

[c_reider@sonomu.club]

@futurebird that is cool as hell

[josephmeyer@c.im]

@futurebird Perhaps you should make Douglas Hofstadter aware of these bowls. I stumbled across a short video interview of him on YouTube, recently, and he said he is now more interested in art than science.

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@futurebird

This is so cool! Thanks for sharing!

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird oh yeah, absolutely! like, that's straight up mud dauber type stuff!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@goaty

I once read the most interesting story online about a small town with a dark secret. Everyone in it looked like a human but was really some kind of bee or wasp.

Then a family of yellow jacket people moved in and everyone was suspicious of them.

But the "mud-dauber woman" had a pottery studio in the tiny downtown which I just thought was a charming little detail.

[goaty@meow.social]

@futurebird awww that's adorable

[yonder@spacey.space]

@futurebird @goaty

Oh this has suddenly reminded me of a movie, I think from the 90s, in which some intelligent bugs from the rainforest who are really good mimics, disguise themselves as human, to go live in a human town. I think the idea is that they want to do research on the creatures who are destroying their habitat. It was wuite an oddball film that stuck in my memory but I can't remember anything else about it. Let me think

[antdude@mastodon.social]

@futurebird @goaty how tall do these levies go?

[yonder@spacey.space]

@futurebird @goaty

Ah it's this one. The review is not kind, maybe that's why I can't remember much else about it...

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/meet-the-applegates-1991