On my Facebook page. I decided to have a little fun.
I commented on the frequency of posts about cats and dogs and said that I personally have strong positive feelings toward ants. I included this image of an ant.
The reality is that I do enjoy watching ants go about their daily life in my house on my sink and in my bathtub. I go out of my way not to kill them. I have great respect for their extraordinary perseverance and other anthropomorphic qualities.
As a fan of pro-commerce, I am also biased toward ants because of their high productivity that is not put there by humans.
They go about pollinating the world as a byproduct of their own search for food. You can look at the extent of their pollination efforts in Google scholar. At this moment ants' pollination importance doesn’t seem to be fully appreciated. But that is the way of science, which has fads. The fad in which ants become more important in pollination is certainly on the horizon.
Ants also help create topsoil by digging homes deep in the surface and providing routes for water and seeds to penetrate the surface. Creating topsoil is vital for all animal and plant survival.
And then ants are food for many species.
I am very impressed with ants and I'm expressing my gratitude to their entire species here in this blog.