Workers already scuttle about in the 200, 000-square-foot plant like ants on a hot plate.
In the bitter phrase of Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom he sparred for years, he preferred to view men like ants.
Cells are lined up like ants and passed one-by-one through a tiny fluid channel one-fourth the width of a human hair, and a digital camera sensor chip captures images of the cells as they pass over an array of nanoscale holes.
Cells are lined up like ants and passed one by one through a tiny fluid channel one-fourth the width of a human hair, and a digital camera sensor chip captures images of the cells as they pass over an array of nanoscale holes.
"We are like little ants pinching the food of the giant but we pinch, " he says.
"They don't sting like fire ants do, but aside from that they are much bigger pests, " he said.
"You bring the stuff little by little, like the ants, " she said.
On the map of modern Britain, with giant supermarkets and depots joined up by motorways, his lorries were like bright ants in constant motion between them.
From tiny leptanilline ants that look like a dusting of pepper to Australia's 5cm (2-inch) bulldog ants, the weight of the Formicidae family is equal to that of the world's population of humans and accounts for 10% of the biomass of all the creatures on the planet.
Beneath the hunter crawled diligent ants, burdened like respectable little people with heavy loads for their households.
Then there are the groups like the Tea Party Fire Ants whose focus is far afield from the core principles of the movement.
The regime, says Prof Juergens, also drives wider benefits, with the insects becoming a valuable food resource for a whole range of other animals such as geckos, moles, aardvarks, jackals, spiders, ants and the like.
Just like the rats, the hero ants would chew at the restraints (though not if the victims were anesthetized or from different colonies or species).
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When I walked off the plane I was hit with such a mighty gust of humidity that it caused me to tear off my jacket, sweater and scarf like they were covered in fire ants.
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This was just the first in a near-comical procession of lurking horrors from anaconda that can digest an entire deer to the slivery candiru (parasitic toothpick fish) that can lodge, die and rot in your urethra, from puraques (eels) that can send 650 volts of electricity into their prey to bullet ants whose stings feel like being shot (all dangers we thankfully avoided).
Tunisian ants ran through this maze like it was a racetrack, he says.
Scientists in the US have built and tested robotic ants that they say behave just like a real ant colony.
At high-end bars in the United States and United Kingdom, bartenders are crafting cocktails with ingredients like crickets, tarantulas, scorpions and even giant ants.
Dr Jaisson suspects, though he has not yet proved for sure, that all the ants in the colony are genetically identical like the cells in a single human body.
It's like a swarm of flies with no real leaders, rather than a colony of ants all reporting back to the queen.
The locals guided us on foot through the rainforest, pointing out the ants whose pinchers they use for stitches, the trees whose sap works like iodine and the termites that can be crushed into mosquito repellent.
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