LEAVE IT TO THE ANT! - Robert A Ginskey - June 1979

Robert A Ginskey

Solomon once admonished: "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which... gathereth her food in the harvest" (Proverbs 6:6-8). The tiny ant is indeed a remarkable creature. In fact, the social organization and food-gathering abilities of ants are utterly amazing. Consider the tropical leafcutter ant. These industrious insects harvest leaves with a precision and determination that can quickly strip a whole tree or shrub. The largest worker ants from the colony snip the leaves into semicircular pieces of just the right size to be carried off to the nest by other workers. The sight of a little ant struggling to carry a large-sized chunk of leaf is truly awesome; but the fact is, an ant is unimaginably strong and can carry 100 times its own weight! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library