I have been watching my Temnothorax colony.
I have seen some workers picking other workers up and carry them around, sometimes quite rough and forceful.
The other ant is still alive, this is not a transport of dead bodies.
I assume this is recruitment?
I have seen recruitment before, and I know that Formicines have a different way of carrying their sisters than Myrmecines do. But somehow, these Temnothorax do it in all kind if weird ways?
And they are not gentle with it at all.
I am confused.
I also do not know what they are doing- they are not carrying the sisters to the food- they just happened to stop on the food dish, because the carried sister resisted, shortly after, she was dragged on.
I am unsure how to interpret this.
Anyone can shed any light on this?
