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Posted July 19 2016 - 5:09 PM
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Posted July 19 2016 - 5:55 PM
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It's not aggression. Some species of ants do this, usually Formacines and Dolichoderine ants. It's a way these ants communicate and it's often used as an alarm signal or telling apart nest mates.
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Posted July 20 2016 - 10:32 AM
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My lasius colonies flick there bodies when they are alarmed. If it's something minor like food dropping, it'll be a couple workers. If i jolt the nest, the whole colony starts doing it.
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Posted July 20 2016 - 11:34 AM
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I think that might be part of their stridulation, but I don't actually know.
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Posted July 20 2016 - 11:51 AM
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I think that might be part of their stridulation, but I don't actually know.
In a documentary i watched about ants, it showed that some species actually emit a sound rather then creating it with their body parts. It's similar to a chirp or screech. If i remember correctly, it was Leaf cutters, or a species of leaf cutters that was used as the demonstration in the doc. When an ant was buried and unable to move/dig themselves out, they would screech to alert others of what happened, and help the colony to locate them. Like a beacon.
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Posted July 20 2016 - 8:11 PM
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In a documentary i watched about ants, it showed that some species actually emit a sound rather then creating it with their body parts. It's similar to a chirp or screech. If i remember correctly, it was Leaf cutters, or a species of leaf cutters that was used as the demonstration in the doc. When an ant was buried and unable to move/dig themselves out, they would screech to alert others of what happened, and help the colony to locate them. Like a beacon.
I think that might be part of their stridulation, but I don't actually know.
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Posted July 21 2016 - 6:29 AM
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In a documentary i watched about ants, it showed that some species actually emit a sound rather then creating it with their body parts. It's similar to a chirp or screech. If i remember correctly, it was Leaf cutters, or a species of leaf cutters that was used as the demonstration in the doc. When an ant was buried and unable to move/dig themselves out, they would screech to alert others of what happened, and help the colony to locate them. Like a beacon.I think that might be part of their stridulation, but I don't actually know.
Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony. Great documentary. And yes, they are some species of leaf cutter/fungus grower.
It's getting hard to keep track on which ones i have and havent watched yet, lol. Thank you.
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Posted July 21 2016 - 7:37 AM
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Just posted this. In one of my Camponotus colonies the workers were attacking one of their sisters.
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Edited by AntsMAN, July 21 2016 - 7:38 AM.
Current queens/colonies
Camponotus novaeboracensis x2
Camponotus pennsylvanicus x2
Camponotus herculeanus x1
Formica sp. x1
Lasius americanus x1 (Lasius alienus)
Lasius neoniger x1
Crematogastor cerasi x1
Myrmica sp. x1
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