This weekend, we visited
Little Bennet Regional Park, one junction north of Germantown on the I-270. It's getting colder out, there are not many leaves left on the trees and I had to finally put on my winter coat.
The area also contains one of the largest populations of
Allheny mound building ant, which build large mounds in the forest. These ant's are cool; building multiple mounds connected by tunnels in a single colony, killing nearby trees with formic and farming aphids (ants being one of the only other species that
farm other species, including aphids and
fungi). Ants are very, very
cool.
Here is a picture of me near the giant ant mounds:
Also, here is a picture of Sarah near a downed tree. We are not sure if it was the work of ants, or beavers. Who can tell?
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