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Interesting article for ant barrier research

Started By soulsynapse , Jan 17 2017 4:03 PM

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#1 Offline soulsynapse - Posted January 17 2017 - 4:03 PM

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https://www.ncbi.nlm...les/PMC2819508/

The article goes over the mechanism of the pitcher plant to keep ants from crawling back out as well as the base mechanism of how ants cling to surfaces absent things to grab on to

Thought I'd share, cheers.

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#2 Offline Alabama Anter - Posted January 17 2017 - 4:40 PM

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Hmmmm would be really cool if someone invented a new kind of Floun.

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#3 Offline drtrmiller - Posted January 17 2017 - 5:28 PM

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The technology to duplicate is available now—it's just very costly and has to be applied with plasma sputtering deposition, rather than as a liquid.

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