CharrveinThe new penny ant nest
For visits to schools and kindergartens
Societal grant to go outside Reykjavík
#ants #myrmicology #Iceland #antnest #castle #pennyants #ecology #biodiversity
myrmepropagandistTheir nests are made of the fungi they eat and unlike anything else I know that ants might build.
Does any other creature make a house out of edible fungi? What if you could just eat things from the walls of your house? These ants are so advanced. I thought paper making ants were wild!
Ant team in MH high school
Andreas Guðmundsson (left) with Atli Jósefsson teacher at Menntaskólinn í Hamrahlíð
#AntNest in front
#pennyAnts that came from a potted palm Andreas got as a present
Books are zoology 2 Volumes in Icelandic by Örnólfur Thorlacius former rektor of MH
#diversity #inclusion #ecology #trampspecies #dispersalEcology #Iceland #Reykjavík #ants #pennyAnts
Stefan F. WirthWhat is a #mite of the #Histiostomatidae doing in nests of an #antnest? About behavior, dispersal, #phoresy, life strategy. A 2008 study about the life strategy of mite #Histiostoma #bakeri (Histiostomatidae) in nests of the leafcutting ant #Atta #texana.
According to this, the desired location of the mites for mating and reproduction is the detritus chambers of the ant nest.
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2023
Paper Wirth & Moser (2008), short summary and PDF for download: https://wp.me/p2l6XU-1Mt
Wirth, S. & Moser, J.C. (2008): Interactions of histiostomatid mites (Astigmata) and leafcutting ants
A 2008 study about the life strategy of mite Histiostoma bakeri (Astigmata, Histiostomatidae) in nests of the leafcutting ant Atta texana. A specific cleaning behavior between ant workers in reacti…
Here is an example of what they want to build, given enough sand and soil. Hence all the eggs. They aim high! #ants #architecture #antnest #Pogonomyrmex
#ants, #antkeeping, #camponotus, #atta, #queenant, #Hymenoptera, #eusocial, #arthropods, #formica, #antnest, #formicarium, #ant, #flyingantday, #lasius, #fireant, #polyrachis, #Dynomyrmex, #Formicidae, #Aculeata, #antalgorithim, #eusocialintelligence, #Doleromyrma, #Leptomyrmex, #mutualism, #Trophobiosis, #Coevolution, #Myrmecophily
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