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Messor wasmanni: Blowball (time-lapse video)


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#1 Offline Barristan - Posted May 14 2020 - 9:34 AM

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I gave a small Messor wasmanni colony a blowball and watched them harvesting the seeds:


 
What you see in the video in 2:37 took around 130 minutes in real-time.
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#2 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted May 14 2020 - 11:28 AM

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Nice! Maybe I'm coddling my Veromessor too much. When they were a very young colony they had trouble dealing with dandelion fluff on the seeds, so I've been usually removing most of the fluff for them. What are they trying to get out of the stem?


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#3 Offline Barristan - Posted May 14 2020 - 12:03 PM

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Nice! Maybe I'm coddling my Veromessor too much. When they were a very young colony they had trouble dealing with dandelion fluff on the seeds, so I've been usually removing most of the fluff for them. What are they trying to get out of the stem?

 

Maybe they think that there are still seeds in there so they cut it open.



#4 Offline Enderz - Posted May 15 2020 - 8:38 AM

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Wow, never heard of it called a 'blowball', but very nice video Barristan as always.


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#5 Offline Barristan - Posted May 15 2020 - 9:42 AM

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Hmm I thought you use this word when they have seeds ;)


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