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Maybe for humans, ants wouldn’t poise much of a threat, except when they make a dangerously long line to out food or our trash. Despite their size, ants are an incredibly resilient species. So much, that the process of creating an ant hill involves power, strength, treason and murder.

It all starts when a Queen Ant sees her life cycle coming to an end. She will procreate a series of ants, which, for the sake of simplicity we will call the Princess Ant. When these Princesses are old and strong enough they will be expelled from their home colony to never return.

Once in the outside world, each Princess must fend for themselves. Unfortunately, most Princess Ants will die of starvation shortly after leaving the colony. The ones strong enough will begin forming a momentary alliance to begin construction of a single ant colony.

Princess Ants know that a young colony can only have one Queen. Therefore, they start to slowly conspire to kill the weakest Princess Ant and fight amongst each other for the crown. The Princess Ant that survives ‘till the end will become the Ant Queen.

But the Queen cannot run the colony on her own. She starts producing different ants for different purposes: Worker Ants help build and fortify the colony, Nursing Ants will take care of the Queen’s young, Feeding Ants will store food in their bodies and feed the other ants, Warrior Ants will defend and protect the colony from enemy forces, and Scouting Ants that explore the neighborhood searching for food, tools, and enemies.

There have been cases of super colonies, in which a colony could be large enough to extends its territory throught miles. These colonies have more than one Queen Ant and take years to build and a lot of effort to maintain peace. There is a small amount of super colonies in the world.

In a young colony, if a Scouting Ant returns with reports of a enemy colony, the Queen may choose to invade their terrotory to become stronger. She will send Warrior Ants to the site and order them to kill every Worker, every Scout, every Nurse and every Warrior. The enemy Feeding Ants will be dismembered for their food supply and the younger ants will be taken as prisoners to be raised to serve another Queen. As the threat diminishes, the colony becomes stronger.

(Sorry I had to) But I guess that is, in essence part of who I am. I am that crazy person that will bring up any musical, movie, book and series reference I can muster into any conversation. Especially with Disney. I love Disney! I am more of a Disneyologist (not sure if that even exists, but if it does I’m one of them). I like to watch movies and series over and over again to catch new things I couldn’t the last time and freak out about the brilliance of storytelling. There is no better feeling than those microseconds when all the dots connect and form a new idea or point of view that changes everything.

Family and friends are incredibly relevant in my life. I wouldn’t who am if it weren’t for their influence on me. Everything, the good moments and the bad moments have made me unique and stronger. And because of that feeling of gratitude towards my loved ones I tend to be very giving, which can be a good thing and a bad thing. Sometimes I feel like I give too much to someone who doesn’t reciprocate, and other times I feel like I give less to the people that need more. It’s all a very confusing scenario, but I’ve chosen to be okay with what I can and can’t do. I’m not a superhero nor am I a saint (no matter how much people believe I am) but I can still give what to my capacity I can.

Most of my hobbies include reading, drawing, writing, painting, doing pottery, playing the ukulele and learning new skills. But, most of all, I sing. I love singing and even if I’m not Celine Dion or Andrea Bocelli, I will wherever and whenever I can. Singing has taking me out of my deepest corners when I felt everything crumbling. It is my wings, my escape from reality, my light in my darkest times. I could honestly say, I don’t know who I would be if I couldn’t sing.

Ants may seem like a meaningless problem for a human being. They’re so small and easy to kill that the only concerns we have about ants is when they make a trail to our food or our trash. But in reality, ants are a much more powerful and organized creature that show an incredible similarity to a growing empire.

The cycle of the ant colony begins with, what we will call the Princess Ant soon to be the Queen. This special ant was born from another Queen alongside dozens of sisters which will be freed to the wild when their wings are stro enough. During this time, many Princess Ants die of starvation. But occasionally, one or two Princess Ants gets lucky enough to survive and start their own colony.

However, they cannot do it alone. The Princess Ant must search for other Princesses in the same pursuit as her own. Forming a temporary pact, these Princesses start the construction of a single ant colony. Even if it is a colective effort, each Princess Ant will slowly start conspiring to kill the other, for there may only be one Queen. Slowly but surely, the strongest Princesses will start killing the weakests until only one remains. That ant will be the Queen Ant of the colony.

After that comes the process of breeding. The Queen Ant will start raising different ants for different jobs. Some will be the Nursing Ants who take care of the young. Others will be Worker Ants to build the colony. Feeding Ants store food in their bodies and feed it to the colony, Warriors Ants deffend from invaders and Scouting Ants search the outiside of the colony for enemies.

Some colonies could unite and turned into super colonies, spreading their tunnels through miles and miles and having more than one Queen in a peace truce to endure the colonies’s lives

But, if a Scouting Ant returns with reports of another colony that could threaten their own, the Queen will order an invasion. Warrior Ants will storm the enemy colony, fighting their way through the underground maze, killing every ant, stealing away their food supply and capturing their infants to be raised as their own.