myrmepropagandistTulip, the eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) is a median worker. She likes to hang out at the highest point of the driftwood branch. Like most elderly ants (she is nearly 2 years old) she no longer enters the main nest. (I think older ants avoid the nest chambers to prevent disease) she spends a lot of time looking up… she has escaped twice. On her first escape I gave her the pink dots.
#antVideo #withNarration #namedAnts #tuliptheant #petAnts
Frantic activity continues at the cone #ant compound. They are making a network of tunnels.
The species is Dorymyrmex bureni and they are the most tiny frantic ants that I keep. It's a big challenge keeping them inside an enclosure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50unYyz_Nbo
#antVideo #ants #antsOfMastodon #withNarration #Dorymyrmex #DorymyrmexBureni
Tiny ants love making sandcastles.
My cone ants are… making something. They don’t like the size of the entrance to their nest… but why did they make tendrils?
Cone ants are getting creative:
https://youtu.be/ydcd1DX5InE
cone ants get creative
It's been a few days since I've opened the enclosure for her colony, so she must have been lost in the apartment for several days. She managed to not get eaten by a spider or by #pica! (yes Pica will eat ants)
I gave her some sugar water before returning her to her home. #antVideo #camponotus #ants #antkeeping #antsOfMastodon #WithNarration
Rehydrating a lost ant before returning her to her colony
Younger ants seem to make themselves very small when there are strange lights or vibrations. The queen was not bothered. #antVideo #WithNarration #shortVideo #ants #camponotus
Young ant is scared.
Got some wonderful video of a carpenter ant major (Camponotus pennslyvanicus) eclosing from her cocoon. Ants can't free themselves without help. Their first moments of adult life are spent being fussed over, cleaned and fed by as many as 8 excited siblings.
The first thing they see is a world full of others who just want to help them. The first place they experience is warm, safe and made just for ants.
Breaking: Carpenter Ant, Daffodil Can Still Climb Stick, Rumors of Fat Gaster? Exaggerations!
Here is an important update on the situation at the Carpenter ant colony for all of you Daffodil stans out there. #antvideos #daffodil #carpenterants #camponotus #ants
#withnarration #verysilly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWM94MXRqWE
Important Daffodil update for all the Daffodil stans
Strange things are afoot in the carpenter ant nest this afternoon. A group of workers have seemingly turned against this particular larvae. They are all just biting it over and over... though not doing much damage? What could cause this? Maybe the larvae has died? Maybe it's infected? I will see if they really dismantle it or if it's just a bite fest. #camponotus #antvideo #withnarration
Why have my ants tyrned in one larvae?
Do you ever wish you could run like an ant?
I took her out to take some photos and she impressed me with her sprinting.
Do you ever wish you could run like an ant?
I took the male alates out on the porch for a photoshoot and because I felt sorry for them.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D-zd2t-c3WY
#antvideo #withnarration #ants #harvesterants #Pogonomyrmex #pogos #alates #flyingantday
