anthill

When an anthill is disturbed, the response comes from the colony acting together rather than from any individual ant.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024

“But if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green-energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the position of those ants.”

From Slate ● May 9, 2023

Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk, who likened the rebuilding to a bustling anthill, said residents are eager to close a deeply painful chapter.

From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2023

The circuits are so intimately woven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The sandfly commonly shelters in cracks in poorly plastered mud houses, anthills and soil fissures, multiplying during the rainy season after prolonged drought.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

The rendition is hypnotic but also distancing, making these utopian dreamworlds seem even more artificial than they already were, now ungrounded in space and time, crowds moving en masse through cosmic anthills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

And then fire threatens his family and all those issues become anthills in comparison to surviving this night.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023

They also look for good collection points such as anthills, the areas near certain types of indigenous trees and decomposing baobab trees, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023

My centrioles, basal bodies, and probably a good many other more obscure tiny beings at work inside my cells, each with its own special genome, are as foreign, and as essential, as aphids in anthills.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas