I have a new queen. Lasius brevicornis. The queen is about 9mm Her nanitics are so tiny I'm going to cry. They are 1.5mm and transparent yellow.
They are smaller than the antennae on my Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen. Nanitics are the first workers in a colony and they are often smaller than the workers produced later when the colony is better established. But this is out of control. They are just so small.
They would make a fruit fly look like an elephant.
They still have six legs, tiny mandibles and tiny ant intentions and projects they are working on with their mother.
What do they have in their legs? One muscle fiber per joint?
They are so complex and tiny it's breaking my brain a little.
I don't understand why people aren't freaked about about this more often.
@futurebird One thing I've learned from playing around with digital electronics (at a very limited scale) is quite how much you can do with a very few transistors. I'm pretty sure that the same thing applies to neuronal(*) networks.
Don't think of it as code, think of it as hardware, and it becomes less unlikely to think of it being feasible on the limited hardware available.
(*) i.e. actual biological ones
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