Hi everyone!
I went to the Victoria bug zoo in Vancouver Island today, and I really liked it! Mostly because they had the only Atta cephalotes colony in Canada. There were also other different kinds of insects there!
Here are some pictures of the Atta colony(sorry about the sideway pictures):
Foraging area & taxonomy:
Chambers:
Other insects:
(well, this guy isn't an insect, but whatever)
It's pretty great place, and they also sell queen ants too! The only downside of this place is that it's pretty small, it would only take about half an hour to look through all the critters. (unless you were like me and watched the Atta colony for an hour) One thing that was pretty amusing was every single people who sees the leafcutters go: "Oh! It's fire ants!" or "red ants!"
Definitely a place to visite for ants & arthropod enthusiasts.
Edited by IdioticMouse26, June 24 2024 - 9:45 PM.
