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Ant Terrarium With Intelligent Temperature Control Ant Box Ant Farm

Ant Terrarium With Intelligent Temperature Control Ant Box Ant Farm

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Product description:

Product name: Spliceable concrete ant nest
Total nest size: 15*10*13.5cm
Nest size: 15 * 10 * 6.5cm
Feeding area size: 15*10*7cm
Material: Acrylic + sand + concrete
Expansion port: 4
Port diameter: 12mm
Sink opening: 1
If you buy C/E, the B-1 type nest area is sent by default.
Type E with automatic heating module and thermometer, the temperature control module is behind the nest area. (Updated)
Type E voltage: 110v-240v
The plug of type E is an EU plug; we will send you a suitable adapter according to your country.
Type E can only heat ant nests, can't cool down!

Features:

1. Products can be spliced arbitrarily, spliced from four directions of left, right, up, and down, and expanded arbitrarily.
2. Unlimited expansion of the capacity of the nest area, the use of magnet adsorption, the connection is more secure.
3. Using concrete as a moisturizing material to provide an environment suitable for ants to live in.
4. There is a water pool in the nest area, which can better maintain the moisture in the nest area and increase the humidity in the nest area.
6. The nest area is equipped with a red shading board to make the ants feel safer.
6. Suitable for various ants to live and breed.

The package includes one ant farm.

Note:
1. Buy ant farm without sending ants.
2. The size of the ant farm may have an error of 1-3mm.
3. If you encounter assembly and product quality problems, you can contact me in time.

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Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids: the life of a fire ant queen

By Walter R. Tschinkel — January 2020

It’s June, just after a heavy rainfall, and the sky is filling with creatures we wouldn’t normally expect to find there. At first glance, this might be a disturbing sight. But for the lucky males and females of Solenopsis invicta, otherwise known as fire ants, it’s a day of romance.

This is the nuptial flight, when thousands of reproduction-capable male and female ants, called alates, take wing for the first and last time. But even for successful males who manage to avoid winged predators, this mating frenzy will prove lethal. And for a successfully mated female, her work is only beginning.

Having secured a lifetime supply of sperm from her departed mate, our new queen must now single-handedly start an entire colony. Descending to the ground, she searches for a suitable spot to build her nest. Ideally, she can find somewhere with loose, easy-to-dig soil— like farmland already disturbed by human activity. Once she finds the perfect spot, she breaks off her wings— creating the stubs that establish her royal status. Then, she starts digging a descending tunnel ending in a chamber. Here the queen begins laying her eggs, about ten per day, and the first larvae hatch within a week. Over the next three weeks, the new queen relies on a separate batch of unfertilized eggs to nourish both herself and her brood, losing half her body weight in the process. Thankfully, after about 20 days, these larvae grow into the first generation of workers, ready to forage for food and sustain their shrunken queen.

Her daughters will have to work quickly though— returning their mother to good health is urgent. In the surrounding area, dozens of neighboring queens are building their own ant armies. These colonies have peacefully coexisted so far, but once workers appear, a phenomenon known as brood-raiding begins. Workers from nests up to several meters away begin to steal offspring from our queen. Our colony retaliates, but new waves of raiders from even further away overwhelm the workers. Within hours, the raiders have taken our queen’s entire brood supply to the largest nearby nest— and the queen’s surviving daughters abandon her. Chasing her last chance of survival, the queen follows the raiding trail to the winning nest. She fends off other losing queens and the defending nest’s workers, fighting her way to the top of the brood pile. Her daughters help their mother succeed where other queens fail— defeating the reigning monarch, and usurping the brood pile. Eventually, all the remaining challengers fail, until only one queen— and one brood pile— remains.

Now presiding over several hundred workers in the neighborhood’s largest nest, our victorious queen begins aiding her colony in its primary goal: reproduction. For the next several years, the colony only produces sterile workers. But once their population exceeds about 23,000, it changes course. From now on, every spring, the colony will produce fertile alate males and females. The colony spawns these larger ants throughout the early summer, and returns to worker production in the fall. After heavy rainfalls, these alates take to the skies, and spread their queen’s genes up to a couple hundred meters downwind.

But to contribute to this annual mating frenzy, the colony must continue to thrive as one massive super-organism. Every day, younger ants feed the queen and tend to the brood, while older workers forage for food and defend the nest. When intruders strike, these older warriors fend them off using poisonous venom. After rainfalls, the colony comes together, using the wet dirt to expand their nest. And when a disastrous flood drowns their home, the sisters band together into a massive living raft— carrying their queen to safety.

But no matter how resilient, the life of a colony must come to an end. After about 8 years, our queen runs out of sperm and can no longer replace dying workers. The nest’s population dwindles, and eventually, they’re taken over by a neighboring colony. Our queen’s reign is over, but her genetic legacy lives on.

Article Source: https://www.ted.com/talks/walter_r_tschinkel_mating_frenzies_sperm_hoards_and_brood_raids_the_life_of_a_fire_ant_queen
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