Homes for industrious bugs

Usage examples of anthills.

The formalities over, I nodded to Zur, who turned on the row of view tables, Immediately, tri-D projections of the five anthills appeared, one over each table.

I would anticipate one question, and point out that if the training period seems both long and intense, remember the nature of our mission will require that much of the combat be done in the tunnels of the anthills.

The reports and data from the advance scout ships showed no significant additions to the anthills.

The first assignment of the flyers was to seal the anthills, using explosives to collapse the tunnels at and around their surface accesses.

I stared suspiciously at the View Screens for the other anthills, but no similar crashes occurred.

If anything, we were fortunate to only experience adverse weather at one of the five anthills.

Apparently the Communication Disrupters had prevented coordinated effort between the anthills, so each anthill had utilized the reserve unit in their own way before it too was drained of energy.

Attempt to land in vicinity of anthills and regroup with strike teams for pickup.

The rest A of the valley was fairly open: pale winter grass shining in the sunlight, dotted anthills, each the size of a cottage, widely separated umbrella acacia with flat tops and lemon yellow trunks.

He had been hidden from Sean by one of the huge anthills, but now he strode out into the open meadow and Sean gasped aloud.

Now the expanse of the wide plain was dimpled with old anthills, mounds of clay thrown up by colonies of termites, some of them the size of a large cottage.

The Paraguayan plain rolled away through this dusk toward darkness, grassland broken by stands of trees and big, stump-shaped anthills.

The wind sent long waves across the plain and around the red anthills, sighed through scattered groves, streamed over his face with odors of sun-warmed earth and horseflesh.