Ant, ants (ari)

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Ant (ari)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

Although ants are with us most of the year, in summer they are at their best and therefore mostly a kigo for all summer.



Let us look at some ant-related
ALL SUMMER kigo:


ari 蟻 (あり) ant, Ameise
big ant, oo-ari 大蟻
small ant, ko-ari　小蟻

mountain ants, yama-ari　山蟻
large black ant, dai kuro-ari　大黒蟻
red ant, aka-ari　赤蟻
yellow ant, ki-ari 黄蟻

anthill, arizuka, 蟻塚
ant tower, ari no too　蟻の塔

ant queen, joo-oo ari　女王蟻
male ant, osu ari　雄蟻
worker ant, 働蟻

ant trail, ant procession, ant column、line of ants
.. .. ari no michi　 蟻の道
.. .. ari no retsu 　蟻の列

flying ants, ants with wings, ha-ari, haari, 羽蟻、higi 飛蟻
.. .. hari はり


arimaki 蟻巻 (ありまき) aphid, plant louse
. . . arimaki 蚜虫（ありまき）、aburamushi あぶらむし
Blattlaus


white ants, shiro-ari シロアリ白蟻
..... They are quite a pest and can destroy the wood of a house. So they are destroyed by the pest control squads regularly. One of these companies has erected a "grave for the white ants", in order to pray for the souls of the dead animals. The inscription reads:
"White ants, rest in peace" shiro-ari, yasuraka ni nemure.



http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2004/02/koya-san-in-wakayama.html

Gabi Greve

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kigo for mid-spring

ari ana o izu 蟻穴を出づ (ありあなをいづ)
ants coming out of their hole
.... ari ana o deru 蟻穴を出る（ありあなをでる）
ari izu 蟻出づ（ありいづ） ants coming out (again), ants emerge

Finally it gets warmer and the ants come out looking for food. This kigo shows the joy of springtime.


ants out of a hole —
when did I stop playing
the red toy piano?

Fay Aoyagi, 2006
http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/Lanoue-FayAoyagiHaiku.html


. Discussion at THF, January 2011


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kigo for mid-autumn

ari ana ni iru 蟻穴に入る（ありあなにいる）
ants going into their holes


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Ant Nests: Ants Love City Living
Ant Nests Read about ants and how they build their nests.

More links about the Ants:
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000793.shtml


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Worldwide use

Germany

Ameisen, Ameisenhaufen, Ameisenhuegel, Ameisenstrasse. Waldameisen.

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North America

There is a well-known professor named Deborah Gordon whose a specialist in ants. Here are
urls for her book, 'Ants at Work', and a page about her research on harvester ants in Arizona.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684857332/102-7098940-4089726?v=g\lance
http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1904/Foster/Foster.html

What we have here in my are of California are Argentinian sugar ants, a highly successful invasive specis that has liminated the native species.

http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/uclasp/urban_science/urban_bestiary/ant.htm
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/ants/argentine/


Their hills have multiple queens, and are all apparently genetically identical so they behave as one colony, from one end of California to the other. They are therefore very, very difficult to control and impossible to eradicate. I used to think ants were cute. Not anymore.



Linda Papanicolaou

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CAUTION: CLOSEUP IMAGES OF ANTS--CLICK LINKS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/printfriendly.pl_files/Fire_ant_u_m634285.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Ant_SEM.jpg


Here is the full url for the second image:
http://july.fixedreference.org/en/20040724/wikipedia/Ant

Linda Papanicolaou


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doodle bug, also known as an ant lion

doodle bug!
the end of the grass stem
drips with spit

(a trick to capturing a doodle bug was to pluck a slim grass stem and wet the pale end with spit and poke it in the center of the doodle bugs funnel shaped nest to trick the hidden bug out of its home... I guess this equivalent in entertainment value back then as the Nintendo"wii" is now?)

Chibi


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Things found on the way

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu


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HAIKU

Sitting outside the first night after a long winter.
All is so quiet.. the stars amazingly near...

quietude -
an ant is sneezing
in a far galaxy

Gabi Greve, 2005
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2005/04/quietude-and-ant.html

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unknown voices
whispering in the valley -
an ants procession
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unbekannte Stimmen
fluestern im Tal -
Ameisenstrasse

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shiranu koe
tani ni sasayaku
ari no michi

(Japanese by Nakamura Sakuo)

© Haiku by Gabi Greve, 2005

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news alive -
the ants took over
the mail box

lebende Nachrichten -
Ameisen uebernehmen
den Briefkasten

Sticking my hand in the box to get the newspaper as usual, yelling with surprise!

These are the tinywiny ants who make up for their body size in sheer numbers.

With so much rain around, I guess they deserve some shelter.

So, see you tomorrow morning, my million little friends.

Gabi Greve, June 10, 2004
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/34

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.. .. .. Some Ant-Haiku by Issa

夕桜蟻も寝所は持にけり
yûzakura ari mo nedoko wa mochi ni keri

evening cherry blossoms--
the ants also
have a place to sleep

http://cat.xula.edu/issa/searchissa.php?haiku_id=228.03a

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蟻の道雲の峰よりつづきけり
ari no michi kumo no mine yori tsuzuki keri

the ants' road
from peaks of clouds
to here

http://cat.xula.edu/issa/searchissa.php?haiku_id=270.18a

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出るやいな蚯蚓は蟻に引れけり
deru ya ina mimizu wa ari ni hikarekeri

just coming out
the earthworm dragged off
by ants

http://cat.xula.edu/issa/searchissa.php?colors=T&show_c=T&haiku_id=388.03a
Issa
Tr. David Lanoue
Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo

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蟻を殺す殺すつぎから出てくる
ari o korosu korosu tsugi kara dete kuru

I kill an ant
kill the next and the next
as they come out

. Ozaki Hoosai, Ozaki Hosai 尾崎 放哉 　　


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Dort die Frau am Fluss,
die wackelt mit dem Hintern.
Ameisenhügel

the woman at the river there
waggles her behind -
anthill
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Jens O. Hoffmann
http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~zinner/pr1/ameisen.html


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Related words

***** Termites

Wood inhabiting termites
Soil tunnelling termites

The wood-inhabiting termites are the more primitive type. Their colonies consist of excavated galleries inside dead branches or logs. Once the dead wood is consumed the colony dies. Since single pieces of dead wood can not sustain a very large family, their colonies rarely ever number more than a few thousand termites.

These wood inhabiting termites have a primitive type of caste system. Instead of having true workers they have false workers which are older nymphs who have undergone a regressive molt and that temporarily stay in the nest galleries and help their parents to raise more brothers and sisters. The soldiers have enlarged orange heads and long toothed jaws.

The soldier's main purpose is to defend the colony from termite's mortal enemies, the ants. Most nymphs gradually grow wing pads and then transform into winged termites called alates. The alates fly from the colony at a certain time of the year to start new colonies.

Read a lot more about the termites here:
http://www.utoronto.ca/forest/termite/trmts101.htm

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cowless barn
termites, new tenants
......milkweed is dying

peigi

Look at a photo of the old barn here:
http://www.haikupoetshut.com/vishaiku18a.html

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housing termites
the dying tree stands
~rooted

peigi

Look at a photo of the old tree here:
http://www.haikupoetshut.com/vishaiku8a.html

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. flying termites (kumbi kumbi) 　Kenya


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***** Fire Ants
Solenopsis invicta



アカカミアリ .. akakami ari
火の蟻 .. hi no ari (a more poetic version)
火蟻 .. hi ari
針蟻　.. hari ari (needle ants)
red fire ants, 紅火蟻
A variety of ants living in the tropics.

The follwing link has a rather graphic picture of a fire ant attack, so be warned!
http://www.desertmuseum.org/invaders/invaders_fireant.htm

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Hawaiian fire ants
hot sting
born of Pele

M. Shanna Moore, Hawaii

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fire ant mounds -
cattle grazing
on crooked paths

- Paul (MacNeil)
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/shiki.archive/9802/0437.html

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walk in park
... fire ant hills
....... sidestepping

peigi. Florida, US
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-2/haikunews_edginko.shtml


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my bathroom blind
red hot ants crawling
all over

kenneth daniels (GY)
Kigo Hotline, June 2009

Guyana
kigo for the wet season


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ANT haiku from Ireland


climbing a rocky ridge
in the sun,
two winged ants

by Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(from 'Morning at Mount Ring', DOGHOUSE Books, 2007)



June afternoon
ants searching for food
on the tiled bathroom wall

by Tasha Smith


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***** arijigoku, ari jigoku 蟻地獄 (ありじごく)
doodlebug, ant lion, antlion
lit. "hell for the ants"
kigo for all summer
suribachi mushi 擂鉢虫（すりばちむし）"mortar insect"
arozusari あとずさり、atosari mushi あとさり虫（あとさりむし）
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Ameisenlöwe

This is the larvae of the
usuba kageroo 薄翅蜉蝣(うすばかげろう), the weak-winged ephemera
Hagenomyia micans
kigo for late summer


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