While researching some of those creatures which build their homes underground I've been reading a great book called "Animal Architecture". This has really caught my imagination, and I've become especially interested in those amazing animal architects of the Ant & Termite families!
I'm intrigued by the apparently meticulously structured ant society in which worker ants become physically adapted to carry out their tasks – some workers developing huge heads used to block the doorways to their nest (if that is their allocated task), others with bodies transforming into living storage vessels to contain huge amounts of honeydew to feed the colony.
I came across a scientist, Walter Tschinkel at Florida State University, who has been making amazing plaster casts of ants nests – how did he do that?
