# How far can ants see? - old question? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 1, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306 "2000-11-01T22:17:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmonster)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306/1 "2000-11-01T22:17:09Z")
[How far can ants see?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/manteye.html) I don’t think this is a new question. Haven’t we seen this one before? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306/2 "2000-11-02T02:49:34Z")
Not that I remember, and not that I can find. By the way, it’s a Staff Report, not one of Cecil’s columns. ---
**Author:** ![jmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmonster)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306/3 "2000-11-02T17:13:53Z")
Whoops, it is a staff reply. I had searched the old columns and couldn’t find it, but I really quite sure that I’ve read a question very similar to that one with a reply from Cecil that was also very similar. Especially the part about being able to see the sun. Maybe I’m just having major deja vu. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306/4 "2000-11-02T17:43:48Z")
Well, the question is in a roundabout way related to a Straight Dope colum, so I guess I’ll leave it here. I don’t remember any Straight Dope column relating to the subject, but of course I don’t have a [photographic memory](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000901.html). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306/5 "2000-11-02T20:22:20Z")
I seem to remember there being a Straight Dope column about how far _humans_ can see, but the search engine doesn’t return any columns containing the word “Andromeda”, which would surely be mentioned in such a column (M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye). I suspect that this is a glitch with the search engine, though, so I’ll try again later. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306/6 "2000-11-02T20:29:02Z")
[How far can ants see?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/manteye.html) ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-can-ants-see-old-question/39306/7 "2000-11-02T20:30:14Z")
Oops, never mind…