Ant-hill

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Ant Hill Cooperative is the name of a housing cooperative in Rochester, New York.

An ant-hill, in its simplest form, is a pile of earth, sand, pine needles, or clay or a composite of these and other materials that build up at the entrances of the subterranean dwellings of ant colonies as they are excavated. A colony is built and maintained by legions of worker ants, who carry tiny bits of dirt and/or vegetation in their mandibles and deposit them near the exit of the colony. They normally deposit the dirt or vegetation at the top of the hill to prevent it from sliding back into the colony, but in some species they actively sculpt the materials into specific shapes, and may create nest chambers within the mound.

Ant-hill from the Alps	Meat eater ants ant hill	Large ant-hill in Poland	Giant clay ant-hill in the province of Misiones, Argentina
Clay ant-hill aprox 3' tall in Argentina	Circular ant colony in Mulshi, Pune, India