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When they first brought the Atta Cephelotes colony to the American Museum of Natural History, there were lots of large soldier ants, guarding the path where the ants, carried their leaves back to their nest, but now having settled in, you see hardly any soldiers at all. I had to look in the nest near what I suspect is the Queen’s chamber to even find one!They may have stopped producing soldiers because, in a closed environment, they just aren’t necessary.
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When they first brought the Atta Cephelotes colony to the American Museum of Natural History, there were lots of large soldier ants, guarding the path where the ants, carried their leaves back to their nest, but now having settled in, you see hardly any soldiers at all. I had to look in the nest near what I suspect is the Queen’s chamber to even find one!They may have stopped producing soldiers because, in a closed environment, they just aren’t necessary.
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A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.
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A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.
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Atta cephalotes leafcutter ants meet along a foraging trail in Minca, Colombia.
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Atta cephalotes leafcutter ants meet along a foraging trail in Minca, Colombia.
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A gallery of fungus-farming ants.
#Ants #Insects #LeafcutterAnts
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Making-a-Living/The-Farming-Ants-Leafcutters/
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A gallery of fungus-farming ants.
#Ants #Insects #LeafcutterAnts
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Making-a-Living/The-Farming-Ants-Leafcutters/
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@futurebird
The whole setup is some Phase IV futuristic-looking SciFi shit. It's impressive. They included obstacles, barriers and traps for the ants to show their collective smarts in getting around or neutralizing them.I don't know ants. I imagine aging individuals take on riskier (to themselves) roles, e.g. foraging, defense.
#Ants #Formicidae #LeafcutterAnts #Hymenoptera #AMNH #AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory #NYC #NewYorkCity #Museums
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@futurebird
The whole setup is some Phase IV futuristic-looking SciFi shit. It's impressive. They included obstacles, barriers and traps for the ants to show their collective smarts in getting around or neutralizing them.I don't know ants. I imagine aging individuals take on riskier (to themselves) roles, e.g. foraging, defense.
#Ants #Formicidae #LeafcutterAnts #Hymenoptera #AMNH #AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory #NYC #NewYorkCity #Museums
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@futurebird
Cap'n! There be ants here!#Ants #Formicidae #LeafcutterAnts #Hymenoptera #AMNH #AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory #NYC #NewYorkCity #Museums
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@futurebird
Cap'n! There be ants here!#Ants #Formicidae #LeafcutterAnts #Hymenoptera #AMNH #AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory #NYC #NewYorkCity #Museums
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The leafcutter ants at Brackenridge Field Lab in Austin are having a great time. Warm winter days are exactly their thing.
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The leafcutter ants at Brackenridge Field Lab in Austin are having a great time. Warm winter days are exactly their thing.