Its how you take it or look at it…

Believe it or not

its how you look at it or take it.

God gave you the power.

So count your blessings

Be positive

Be energetic

Be creative

Smile

Look at hurdles as challenges

Give your best and leave the rest

God is supposed worry for you

So just do your work – duty

Its your duty to be happy and make others happy

Care for your near and dear ones

Enjoy whatever you have been given

And try to add on that

Be human and value time.

An Ant’s world!

• Ants form colonies.
• These larger colonies consist mostly of sterile wingless females forming castes of “workers”, “soldiers”, or other specialised groups.
• Nearly all ant colonies also have some fertile males called “drones” and one or more fertile females called “queens”.
• The only places lacking indigenous ants are Antarctica and a few remote or inhospitable islands.
• Ant societies have division of labour, communication between individuals, and an ability to solve complex problems.
• Ants communicate with each other using pheromones (secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species).
• Ants perceive smells with their long, thin and mobile antennae.
• In species that forage in groups, a forager that finds food marks a trail on the way back to the colony; this trail is followed by other ants, these ants then reinforce the trail when they head back with food to the colony. When the food source is exhausted, no new trails are marked by returning ants and the scent slowly dissipates. This behaviour helps ants deal with changes in their environment.
• A crushed ant emits an alarm pheromone that sends nearby ants into an attack frenzy and attracts more ants from further away.
• In ant species with queen castes, workers begin to raise new queens in the colony when the dominant queen stops producing a specific pheromone.
• Ants attack and defend themselves by biting and, in many species, by stinging, often injecting or spraying chemicals like formic acid.
• Ants need to protect their colonies from pathogens. Some worker ants maintain the hygiene of the colony and their activities include undertaking or necrophory, the disposal of dead nest-mates.
• Nests may be protected from physical threats such as flooding and over-heating by elaborate nest architecture. Workers of Cataulacus muticus, an arboreal species that lives in plant hollows, respond to flooding by drinking water inside the nest, and excreting it outside.
• Leafcutter ants feed exclusively on a fungus that grows only within their colonies. They continually collect leaves which are taken to the colony, cut into tiny pieces and placed in fungal gardens. Workers specialise in tasks according to their sizes.

Hope you all enjoyed reading tiny bits of details about Ants’ world!!

A Morning Thought!

Just as one wakes up in the morning and gets through doing the daily chores and thinking about what to do throughout the day, reading news or watching news provides one with a brief halt, to reflect and contemplate that there is life outside one’s own life. That there are achievements, defeats, births, deaths, or rather murders, fake joys, real sorrows, hopes, optimism and pessimism and a lot many facets of life, touching innumerable souls, at different or same times. Sometimes these newspapers or news channels add knowledge, some other times induce helplessness occurring due to national affairs, sometimes they further motivation, that personal hurdles can be overcome or rather overthrown. Well, a lot can be written on the encouraging and discouraging role of news but since it’s just a morning thought, lets keep it simple and short.

Have a good day to all.