Lindsay Burke
- A Lump Like a Stone, Like the Rising Smoke
- 2021
- acrylic and flashe on canvas
- 101×76 cm
- photo by Adam Moskowitz
- courtesy of the artist and Moskowitz Bayse Gallery
Leaf-cutting Ants54 construct ventilation shafts for their nests. The edible mold they cultivate underground thrives in muggy conditions,55 but the ants need a breath of fresh air every once in a while.56
- Acromyrmex ambiguus
- The nests are kept at over 90% humidity at 25–30°C. The ants also sleep here.
- Bollazzi and Roces, 2007