Aluminium and fire ants make art!!

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[gollum]

What a beautiful way get rid of a colony of those little devils!

Mike

 

[augoldminer]

What i want to know is did it kill the fire ant colony.

 

[roaddust66]

Big Fire Ant Mounds in South Texas. We would throw an animal skull on the bed and come back a few weeks later it would be shinny clean , ready to hang on a wall !

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

That is a beautiful sculpture! Makes me think of intricate underwater corals or see fan patterns.
Thanks for sharing that!

I first seen a FSU professor do this here in Florida on a documentary a yr or more ago. He says there's a technique to pouring, so it goes into the chambers and doesn't bust them out. Cool stuffs! If you can access the link, there are some pics of some of his, in the article.

Walter Tschinkel's Aluminum Casts of Ant Colonies Reveals Insect Architecture - Core77

 

[Follows Camp Craig]

For sale, 15 inch magnifying lens with welding goggles.
will trade for smelting equipment.

That's better than trying to entice lightning to strike a silica rich beach
for whatever those things are called. (Fulgurites)