{"id":596,"date":"2013-01-21T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2013-01-21T20:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:45:40","slug":"ants-forecasting-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/ants-forecasting-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants Forecasting Heat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AntForecaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-609\" alt=\"AntForecaster\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AntForecaster-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AntForecaster-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AntForecaster.jpg 915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Aboriginal weather knowledge has been learned by observing nature for thousands of years. \u00a0One of the theories is that when ants cover nests with tiny, heat-reflecting quartz stones, there will be extreme heat or fires.<\/p>\n<p>I found a nest this morning and will photograph it regularly over the next few weeks to see if there are changes during the days, weeks or months. \u00a0There are more white stones than black, so maybe we will have more hot weather with the new tropical cyclone pushing in. \u00a0 This nest was in the open, but we also saw another in the forest with much bigger ants, but I couldn&#8217;t find it again today. \u00a0I will keep looking as it had more sticks covering it when we saw it, which may have been a<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-606\" alt=\"Forecast\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Forecast-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Forecast-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Forecast.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> response to the\u00a0unseasonably\u00a0cold nights down to 10C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aboriginal weather knowledge has been learned by observing nature for thousands of years. \u00a0One of the theories is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,20,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-photography","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AntForecaster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}