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Oldie but goodie: V. pergandei helping sisters with web problems

Started By OhNoNotAgain , Apr 11 2025 7:25 AM

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#1 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted April 11 2025 - 7:25 AM

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LocationCalifornia Argentine Ant Territory

This is a 2019 video about V. pergandei (one of my favorite pet ants) helping nestmates stuck in spiderwebs. I'd already read about it (apparently only the larger workers do this) - but this video also includes footage of presumably young nursery workers cleaning webbing off an ant who came back tangled up.

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Past & Present

Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive); Lasius sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen

Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa

Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other

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