Swarm Intelligence

Harnessing the Power of Collective Action

Ants working together to figure out what the heck happened and how to fix it. Photo by Suzan Erem.

The other day I was clearing out some old firewood. It was the size of stumps because I hadn’t gotten around to splitting this Spring. I wasn’t watching very carefully, just tossing from one pile to the next.

Before I knew it, carpenter ants were crawling al…