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Ant performed "Desperate but Not Serious" and "Goody Two Shoes" on the very first American Bandstand episode of 1983. [ 3 ] The song appears on the greatest hits collection, Antics in the Forbidden Zone , and both the studio version and a live version appear on the double Adam Ant compilation, Antmusic: The Very Best of Adam Ant .
The Grasshopper & the Ants, by Jerry Pinkney, is a 2015 adaptation of the classic Aesop fable where a grasshopper relaxes through Spring, Summer, and Autumn, while a colony of ants work at gathering food for the Winter, but although initially refusing the grasshopper's request for help, they relent and invite him in to share.
"End of a Century" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur. Released in November 1994 by Food Records , it was the last single to be released from their third album, Parklife (1994). The song reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart , considered a disappointment by Andy Ross of Food. [ 1 ]
The song has been a frequent feature of Ant's live setlists both with the Ants and solo from 1977 to the present day. Live versions have been released on the 1994 live album Antmusic: The Very Best of Adam Ant: Disc Two and in excerpt form on the 2014 documentary The Blueblack Hussar directed by Jack Bond .
The queen ant arrives, carried in a sedan chair, and sees the ant playing instead of working. The ant notices the queen and immediately goes back to work. The angry queen warns the grasshopper that he will change his tune when winter comes. The grasshopper blithely dismisses the queen's warning, saying that winter is a long way off.
Written by Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni, it was the title track of the band's second album and was also their first release for CBS Records after leaving the small independent label Do It Records. [ 1 ] Although it was not the first pop song to do so, this was the first time the band employed the use of the two-drummer Burundi beat which then ...
Termites live in colonies and are sometimes called "white ants", but termites are only distantly related to ants. They are the sub-order Isoptera, and together with cockroaches, they form the order Blattodea. Blattodeans are related to mantids, crickets, and other winged insects that do not undergo complete metamorphosis.
Within a single ant colony, seasonal variation may be huge. For example, in the ant Dolichoderus mariae, one colony can shift from around 300 workers in the summer to over 2,000 workers per queen in the winter. [12] Genetics and environmental factors can cause the variation among different colonies of a single species to be even bigger.