Carpenter Ants in Action

Carpenter ants busy boring into a log

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ants
• insects
• work

[HatRatt]

What do they do with that big pile of sawdust?

[timzorrr]

HatRatt

As they dig through the log they just want to get rid of it so they don't do anything with it...they just leave it there.

The grass likes the sawdust though. :)

[muskokatone]

jeez - only if humans worked that well together!

[styken]

Look at those suckers move! I like how they know to toss it overboard. That's an impressive pile of sawdust!

[xxblodydovexx]

@RenshBreni Rofl.

[RenshBreni]

You can tell which ones are the slackers... tossing the smallest bits of wood. lol. Fascinating to see.

[ATERIFA]

if only ants can talk "pew" "pew" "ppoof" "pah" "pew" "pleh" "bleh"

[TomokoSaika]

i just want to see one explode D:

[andmaketherain]

@Hirkjibeque Not unless the workers are fed the correct pheromones like ants...

[Hirkjibeque]

@andmaketherain and what happens there is called forced labour

[Zanguche]

thumbs up if you're going to play minecraft now

[andmaketherain]

@muskokatone Its called China.

[xmaster19]

@EdVidz Most of the time they get in water damaged wood, because it's easier for them to build their nest in it. They don't eat wood, they eat everything but it (vegetation, insects, even their own mates dead bodies). And yeah, you see them throwing that saw dust out because they are cleaning their galleries. Those fellows are pretty clean!