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[futurebird]

BREAKING NEWS: frantic digging continues at cone ant compound. Ants are up to something.

Frantic activity continues at the cone ant compound. They are making a network of tunnels.

The species is Dorymyrmex bureni and they are the most tiny frantic ants that I keep. It's a big challenge keeping them inside an enclosure.

[futurebird]

Tulip's Favorite Spot

Tulip, the eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) is a median worker. She likes to hang out at the highest point of the driftwood branch. Like most elderly ants (she is nearly 2 years old) she no longer enters the main nest. (I think older ants avoid the nest chambers to prevent disease) she spends a lot of time looking up… she has escaped twice. On her first escape I gave her the pink dots.

Tulip, the carpenter ant’s favorite spot.