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Ants garden too, and have been doing it for longer, they don't kill all the other bugs, plants and fungus to do it either.


> they don't kill all the other bugs, plants and fungus to do it either

Not for lack of trying though. Almost all life tries their best to dominate their niche, humans are just too good at it.


That can't be true. Where Ants build their colonies, they also likely displace or destroy things that were in those places in the ground previously. Ant colonies can be huge. They can span miles.

They also will attack other insects and prey on them. They even sting humans. And have been used by indigenous people to torture captured prisoners during their conflicts.


There are plenty of ant species that are cooperative and integrate well with their environment.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-a...


"all the other"


Well, neither do the humans. Livestock biomass is now larger than wild animal biomass.


what do you think the word "other" is doing here? Pesticides, Herbicides, Fungicides. We kill everything around farms to actually farm.


Your clarification fails to clarify bud




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