John_Stone Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2006 10:59PM
Walter Tschinkel, a Florida State University entomology professor, has been
making plaster casts of ant nests since 1982, when he first heard of the
strength of orthodontic plaster. The painstaking process involves pouring the
plaster down the opening as quickly as it will go in. After the plaster hardens,
the excavation begins, but the nest must be taken out piece by piece. (One
harvester ant nest, for example, took some five gallons of plaster and came out
in 180 pieces.) Sometimes more than ten feet tall, the nests are as beautiful in
structure as they are complex.
gruff Report This Comment Date: April 02, 2006 11:48PM
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John_Stone Report This Comment Date: April 03, 2006 03:48PM
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