Plant and ant - research for communication

Based on our group philosophy, the future world is going to return to nature. Nature is a great designer. As human beings who also live on the earth, what we need to do is make the world much more beautifully and environmentally as nature does. In that case, we are here to design everything surrounding us as beauty.

Plant is an amazing architecture that designed by nature that bring us a sense of peace and enjoyable for our life. Communication and information transportation also will be focused on the insects that play an important role in protecting and pollinating the plants.

I have done some research on bee, ant, maybe butterfly later on.

“Earth has been called the green planet, a world clothed in a mantle of vegetation that sustains all other forms of life on this tiny spot in the universe. From simple beginnings, plants evolved first among Earth’s livings and thereby established a fundamental principle of nature: Plants, in one form or another, can exist forever without animals, but animals cannot exist without plants.⋯⋯

Plants stimulate the senses, bring us a sense of peace and tranquillity, and direct our thoughts to contemplating the mysteries of life.⋯⋯”

- P9, < Botany Gardeners > by Brian Capon

Also, Brian mentions the relationship between ant and plant in the book:

Protection by ants:

“⋯⋯Frequently, such plants provide both shelter and food for their protectors. The resident ants live inside hollow stems, cup-shaped leaves, or large, hollow thorns⋯⋯. Some species produce a nutrition liquid, from specialized glands, on which the ants feed. Any unusual disturbance of these plants causes the ferocious residents to swarm out of their nests, ready to attack, giving other insects little chance of encroachment on the ants’ territory.

⋯⋯A mutually beneficial relationship between two different species of organisms is referred to as a symbiosis (Greek: sym, “together”; bios, “life”). There are countless plant-animal symbioses, including the important dependency that many flowering plants have upon insects, birds, and bats for the distribution of their pollen. But none are as unusual as the association between plants and protective ants.⋯⋯”

- P100, < Botany Gardeners > by Brian Capon

Reference:

1. Capon, B. 2005: Botany Gardeners. Timber Press, Inc.