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Ha, the queen doesn't see it that way.
by sammydavis 10y ago
Ha, the queen doesn't see it that way.
- throwanem 10y agoThey have no queen.
- ajmurmann 10y agoWho would have thought that an ant colony would end monarchy before the UK?!
- throwanem 10y agoThe colony has a queen. The workers trapped and waiting to die in the bunker do not.
- pvaldes 10y agoI think that this is a bold statement unless you dig the colony and search for a queen. The same hole collecting ants could collect easily young queens. Nothing prevents the area to be colonised by winged queens origined in the other colony. Not even bats, the surface colony should have a swarm each year. On the other part, the absence of spiders is much more interesting. Would point to that spiders can't live with a pure diet of ants. Formic acid probably.
- gumby 10y agoWell the queen isn't really the top of the hierarchy as she would be in a human colony. She's simply one who has a particular job (reproduction) and thus greater needs. Not really any different from any of the other ants.
- dmix 10y agoAs others have pointed out there isn't really a social hierarchy among ants. Their a mostly decentralized autonomous colonies. The only real hierarchy is who gets to walk on top of others in a tunnel, which it usually the workers going back outside walking over the younger ones who aren't old enough to leave yet.