Any day when I visit the ant colony at the AMNH is a good day.
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Any day when I visit the ant colony at the AMNH is a good day. It's like going to see an important visiting dignitary from the tropics. You can normally tell which chamber the queen is living in. That's where all the activity is. The colony has been in NYC long enough that she is the only ant who remembers what it was like to live underground or their home country. All of the workers have only know the museum.
It's a very healthy colony.
I always feel like it should have a name.
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Any day when I visit the ant colony at the AMNH is a good day. It's like going to see an important visiting dignitary from the tropics. You can normally tell which chamber the queen is living in. That's where all the activity is. The colony has been in NYC long enough that she is the only ant who remembers what it was like to live underground or their home country. All of the workers have only know the museum.
It's a very healthy colony.
I always feel like it should have a name.
A "Night at the Museum" variant about what the ants do when the Museum closes. They go out through a little door in the base of their display nest and explore all of the exhibits.
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A "Night at the Museum" variant about what the ants do when the Museum closes. They go out through a little door in the base of their display nest and explore all of the exhibits.
When it comes to leafcutter ants there is no need to fret about rare insects being poached. They are very common and sometimes agricultural pests in their home countries. So, collecting a young colony isn't doing any harm.
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Any day when I visit the ant colony at the AMNH is a good day. It's like going to see an important visiting dignitary from the tropics. You can normally tell which chamber the queen is living in. That's where all the activity is. The colony has been in NYC long enough that she is the only ant who remembers what it was like to live underground or their home country. All of the workers have only know the museum.
It's a very healthy colony.
I always feel like it should have a name.
@futurebird
I love them.
https://flic.kr/p/2oz3Bz1
