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[nofuel11]

Was this peeing or is something wrong with her? The test tube is covered for darkness up to the edge of the tube opening. I was watching workers eat outside when i noticed a huge butt poke out the tube! The Queen's butt then peed out 2 big drops of clear liquid. Then she casually went back in. I waited a few minutes then lifted the cover, only to see everything was like normal, with the queen acting healthy and normal back in her favorite place: far back in the closed end of the tube.

Camponotus pennsylvanicus Queen, 13 months old, very healthy brood pile, 40ish workers.

[nofuel11]

And this is a simple tub and tubes setup. That's why the tube opening wasn't closed off with cotton.

[nofuel11]

Omg someone else also saw their camponotus queen take a pee:

Seeing my ant pee is so cursed lol. It was so weird and I can't stop wondering about it. So many sites say ants don't pee, but I saw it happen and this video is another pee occasion from someone else. I do think it's pretty smart of my queen to not pee where she lives, by poking her butt right out the edge of the tube opening.

[Ernteameise]

Hmmm.

Not sure why this is so surprising, I did not assume ants were Moclans (aliens from The Orville who only pee once a year).

There are actually also a couple of Ants Canada videos where he has filmed ants peeing and commented on how awesome that was.

It might just be seen and filmed rarely because it just takes such a short time to do the deed.

[nofuel11]

Thanks, didn't know ac covered it. I was thinking I was insane bc every site on the internet confidently says ants never pee liquid, all they do is poop a thing that contains everything like bird poops! I thought the orange slice my ants had been crazy about was causing some kinda reaction lol

[Formiga]

Gosh... Spent a whole minute in anticipation staring at an ant's butt... But even expected, that was totally unexpected.

 

Moooooooom!!!

 

 

Thanks for that video, @nofel11!