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Green ants on the move: part IX
Gigantiops
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Recently eclosed workers do not pass by themselves. Their exoskeletons are still weak and plastic, and theirs legs could bend if they walked themselves. Instead they are ca...
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Green ants on the move: Part VIII: scenes inside a test tube
Gigantiops
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Calm returns after the queen has moved.
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Green ants on the move: Pat VII: The queen arrives
Gigantiops
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Inside the tube, the worker ants are visibly excited as the queen arrives at the new nest site, a test tube. The queen moves around for a while, then settels down, and star...
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Green ants on the move: part VI: Queen movement
Gigantiops
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The queen moves down the bridge: one worker tries to pull her by the mandible, but the queen doesn't cooperate, she keeps her mandibels shut.
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Green ants on the move Part V: The queen moves!
Gigantiops
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After over an hour in the emigration to the new nest site, the queen moves over the wooden bridge. She is accompanied by a worker retinue of at least 13 workers (13% of the...
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Green ants on the move part IV: war booty
Gigantiops
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The ants move a recently captured fly to the new nest site.
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Green ants on the move III: laying odor trails
Gigantiops
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Ants that push the tip of their abdomen to the bridge are re-enforcing the odor trail.
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Green ants on the move Part II
Gigantiops
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Because of light needed for filming, a lot of workers decide the new space isn't that good anymore: they return in the second part of the video.
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Green ants on the move
Gigantiops
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My colony of green tree ants started to move from an old nest site to a new, because I changed the conditions in the old colony. A wooden bridge connects the two nest sites...
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Weaver ants
Gigantiops
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An Oecophylla smaragdina worker uses the silk spun by a larva to close the entrance of the test tube het colony inhabits. She guides the larva with her antennae.
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