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insects can stay in the nest of an ant which has had a superior defence
system for years? Let us analyze the phases of this inexplicable phe-
nomenon.
As you know, there is a complex communication system within the
ant colony. Because of this system, the ants may distinguish members of
their colonies from strangers. This distinguishing ability serves as "a so-
cial defence system". However, the visitors we mention above manage
to get into the ant nests by various techniques. This shows that they have
somehow solved the communication and distinguishing ciphers of the
ants. In other words, they have the ability to talk ant language by me-
chanical and chemical methods.

Imitation

There is a typical movement that an ant makes when it meets another
ant. It touches the other ant lightly with its antenna and checks its
pheromones. Then, both ants go on their way. It is known that they do
this to recognize each other and to protect themselves from alien crea-
tures.
Worker ants do the same thing when they meet insects living in their
nests. Sometimes they realize that the other creature is someone differ-
ent and throw it out of the nest. Yet sometimes they treat the other in-
sect as if it were an ant. This acceptance takes place due to chemical im-
itation by the said insects.
It has been conclusively accepted that insects achieve this imitation
totally by chemicals, because ants have thrown out insects very similar
to them physically when they found them different chemically. Yet cer-
tain parasites that have no resemblance to ants at all have been accept-
ed as if they were members of the ant nest. 44 It is very difficult to ex-
plain how such insect species learn to imitate the chemical characteris-
tics of the ants. Such a thing can only be explained by these pheromones
being added to these insects by design. An insect could not solve a
chemical reaction, even if it lived for millions of years. Therefore, it must
have acquired such characteristics by the conscious design of the
Creator.

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