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What would the world be without ants?  The film has many sequences about them.  What do you think?  Are there more people in the world or more ants?  Do you think that eventually people will be gone but the ants will still be here? How would you like to meet this fellow?

He's a bulldog ant from Australia.  Here's a web site about ants for you to visit:  ANT SITE.

Some of the interesting photography in the film is about aphids.  These strange little guys get nutrients from plants and are sometimes kept as  'cows' by ants who 'milk' them.  Here are some aphids devouring a soybean leaf:

To learn more about aphids visit this aphid site.   Go to page04