Leafcutter ants (Atta) - colony B development
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Uploaded by ashsatoshi on Aug 14, 2010
12/06/2009, 12/12, 12/27 and 01/14/2010 footages.
My other colony of leaf-cutter ants (I think it's "Atta sexdens rubropilosa" which is common in the region).
10/20/2009: I got the queen (nuptial flight);
10/25/2009: the queen laid eggs;
12/07/2009: the first adult worker started to walk;
12/23/2009: workers started to cut substrate (leaves).
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your going to need another cup for there waste its not good for them to have there poo so close to there food sorce they not only keep there waste sepret but there old ants tend to it and die there in the dump
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Nice queen. I have some atta queens and componotus too.
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cool
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wtf, that thing is like the alien in the movie alien
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But she is soooooooooooo HUGE. golly... thats like the size of a mouse isn't it? How often do you seen the queen wondering around after the flights? Are they everywhere? do they get hit by cars or do people step on them?
AgressiveInliners 1 year ago
@AgressiveInliners lol they're not that big, the queen is like 3 cm long, sry if it's disappointing.
It happens once in a year and I think it lasts about 12h. They fly in large amounts so it's easy to find crushed ants in sidewalks and streets, and ants floating in a pool, but only if it's a place near rural areas. It's also easy to find queens without abdomen, some alive, because birds like to eat that part. One day after, you can see some queens digging.
ashsatoshi 1 year ago
i guess Atta queens lay a HUGE amout of eggs on their first batch?
DFWdeno 1 year ago
@DFWdeno Yes, they do. But I don't know how it is compared to other species of ants.
It's funny how it's rare to get a comment without the word "huge" in my videos.
ashsatoshi 1 year ago