Remember how Proverbs 6: 6-8 say: " Go to the the ant, you lazy one; see its ways and become wise. Although it has no commander, officer or ruler, it prepares its food even in the summer; it has gathered its food supplies even in the harvest." This, as we'll see was no myth or allegory.
According to experts some ants, including the harvester (Messor semirufus) found in Israel today do in fact gather and store food.
These ants leave their nests during warmer weather to harvest or collect such things as seeds they find either on the ground or growing on plants -- just as we today often search for and pick fruits from trees.
Not only that but this species of ant also constructs nests close to granaries or threshing floors and store their harvest in underground ganaries or chambers up to five inches in diameter and one-half inch high.
These are not isolated holes in ground forcing the ants to expose themselves to predators or cold weather to run from one to the other in search of more food. Each granary is a part of a network connected underground by galleries forming an underground city.
Such well-stocked colonies enable the ant to survive underground for up to four months without any outside source of food -- or water.
So Solomon's advice to copy the planning and activity of the ant was truly well founded.
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