Category talk:Ant hills

To the rename request

@Lhikan634: Isn't "ant nest" a bit different term than "ant hill"?

• can't "ant hill" (or "anthill") be understood as the aboveground part of the "ant nest"? Or,
• can't be "ant hill" (or "anthill") be understood as the most common and most typical, but not the only possible form of "ant nests"? Some species of ants made their nests not as hills, but in trees or other plants, in dead wood etc.

IMHO "anthills" are notable enough to have their own specific category. --ŠJů (talk) 22:56, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

@Lhikan634 and ŠJů: I agree. I just split ant colony (Q796575) into three (the other two being ant nest (Q107323587) and ant mound (Q107323634)) so it's clear this got a little muddled in the various Wikimedia sites, but it shouldn't be too hard to straighten them out. https://antwiki.org/wiki/nests is a pretty good pictorial guide to the subject; how do we feel about saying that any structure that an ant colony lives in constitutes a nest, with subcategories for underground nests (with or without hills/mounds, for I'd say your first definition of the two is the better one), plant-based nests (either constructed as in weaver ants or adopted, such as Temnothorax living in hollow acorns), bivouacs, and so on? I'm ambivalent about whether the parent category should be 'ant' or 'Formicidae' nests since we'd redirect one to the other anyway which should make the hotcat suggestions work just fine; 'ant' may be informal but it's basically synonymous (velvet ants aren't ants). Arlo James Barnes 06:51, 23 June 2021 (UTC)