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Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker:
sprite-cranberry-moment:
swdyww:
thefuzzydave:
What they found, over two seasons of observation, was a group of almost a million worker ants whose lives are so strange that they hesitate to call them a “colony” in the observations they just published in The Journal of Hymenoptera. Because conditions in the bunker are so harsh, constantly cold, and mostly barren, the ants seem to live in a state of near-starvation. They produce no queens, no males, and no offspring. The massive group tending the nest is entirely composed of non-reproductive female workers, supplemented every year by a new rain of unfortunate ants falling down the ventilation shaft.
This is insane
This would make such a good book. A city deep in bowels of the earth only populated by those unfortunate enough to fall down there. No kids are born, there’s no official ruler, lifes tough. But everyone keeps pulling through cause its the only thing that keeps them going.
Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker:
sprite-cranberry-moment:
swdyww:
thefuzzydave:
What they found, over two seasons of observation, was a group of almost a million worker ants whose lives are so strange that they hesitate to call them a “colony” in the observations they just published in The Journal of Hymenoptera. Because conditions in the bunker are so harsh, constantly cold, and mostly barren, the ants seem to live in a state of near-starvation. They produce no queens, no males, and no offspring. The massive group tending the nest is entirely composed of non-reproductive female workers, supplemented every year by a new rain of unfortunate ants falling down the ventilation shaft.
This is insane
This would make such a good book. A city deep in bowels of the earth only populated by those unfortunate enough to fall down there. No kids are born, there’s no official ruler, lifes tough. But everyone keeps pulling through cause its the only thing that keeps them going.