Ants never make more ants colonies make more colonies.

And it's when they reach this stable size, in numbers of ants, that they start to reproduce.

The queen just lays the eggs. There's no management.

And then a delicate dance between dinner and death the mycelium is consumed by the ants, they become mummified, and, boing, a mushroom pops out of their head.

So for example, if I put out extra food, everybody else the midden workers stop doing midden work and go get the food, they become foragers.

It's a plane. It's a plane!

So every year, on the same day and it's a mystery exactly how that happens each colony sends out its virgin, unmated queens with wings, and the males, and they all fly to a common place.

In Flight

Doorbells,

Planes?

The...flight...plan!

Ant

And this shows a recently virgin queen. Here's her wings.

(Laughter)

The world as we know it will stop.

Air speed

(Didgeridoo) (Airplane)

Hhow about a plane? No.

Flight data tape, adhesive tape.

The night flight.

Navigation Officer?

How was your flight?

How was your flight?

It's... It's an airplane.

You got a plane?

Level out! That's it.

The nest maintenance workers become foragers.

AntSpotlight

At Night

It was a story that a friend told me about the Wright brothers.

The plane had already left the airport.

What do you want to be when you grow up Olivia?

Like what's the payload it could carry?

(footsteps to door)

Run, Shadowfax.

Astronaut.

Litvak is dead.

Airplane...

The plane flew over the island.

The plane flew over the mountain.

He flew to Paris.

I suddenly felt homesick... and I grabbed a plane.

Moxie doesn't fly planes!

That plane of yours... You think it can still fly?

Isn't it unusual?