Could ants evolve an organ that could make and process radio waves for wifi pheromones?
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Radio waves are rather large so several ants might need to link together for long distance listening. Possibly ten ants.
Call it an "ant ten a"
I'll be here all night folks!
It probably needs to be a two-step process.
By analogy: Of course, you can find your significant other by posting something on the Fediverse, but then, you will need to apply genuine perfume on the last mile. Or, at the very least, some shower gel. 😂
@futurebird some mesh network path planning has been based on the way ants use chemical trails to route back to the colony, so this would be fitting.
i'm sure there's a joke in here, but it's too early in the morning for me to figure it out.
@futurebird I think the wavelength might be a challenge. It's a couple of inches even for 6 GHz ones, so ideally you'd want pretty big ants for efficient transmission and reception, I think. Or maybe some kind of ant array where they synchronise their phase differences or wire themselves together somehow.
On the other hand, nerve signals are pretty slow, so so the wavelength in that form ought to be tiny enough to fit inside an ant.