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Strange behavior in Camponotus chromaiodes nanitic (video)

Started By Evanthomas89 , Jul 1 2017 10:10 AM
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#1 Offline Evanthomas89 - Posted July 1 2017 - 10:10 AM

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Here is a video of one of my Camponotus chromaiodes queens and her first nanitics, has anybody seen this behavior before? I had to add as a link because I don't know how to embed videos on here. 

 
 
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#2 Offline Serafine - Posted July 1 2017 - 10:32 AM

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You mean that lower worker "licking" the floor? The worker could vomit on the floor to raise air humidity.
Or you mean that other worker twitching towards the end of the video? That could be sound communication - ants can produce sounds by rubbing parts of their exoskeletons together which often looks quite hilarious.
Otherwise I can't see odd behavior (at least not by ant standards).


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#3 Offline Evanthomas89 - Posted July 1 2017 - 10:40 AM

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You mean that lower worker "licking" the floor? The worker could vomit on the floor to raise air humidity.
Or you mean that other worker twitching towards the end of the video? That could be sound communication - ants can produce sounds by rubbing parts of their exoskeletons together which often looks quite hilarious.
Otherwise I can't see odd behavior (at least not by ant standards).

 

I'm referring to the twitching, thank goodness you don't see anything odd about this video hahaha. I was starting to feel worried that she was glitching out or something. 


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#4 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted July 1 2017 - 11:08 AM

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I think you are observing striation stridulation, an auditory form of communication (0:25).


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#5 Offline Evanthomas89 - Posted July 1 2017 - 11:21 AM

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I think you are observing striation, an auditory form of communication (0:25).

 

that's really interesting! I was worried but I feel a lot better now. 


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#6 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted July 1 2017 - 1:25 PM

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I think you are observing striation, an auditory form of communication (0:25).

I think you are referring to stridulation


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#7 Offline Evanthomas89 - Posted July 2 2017 - 4:49 AM

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I'm used to when my tarantulas stridulate they rub their chelicerae (body part above the fangs) together for form a hiss sound. I'm so excited now to see more ant communication!

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#8 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted July 2 2017 - 9:51 AM

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I think you are observing striation, an auditory form of communication (0:25).

I think you are referring to stridulation

 

 

Haha, whoops! Yes, thank you.


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Exotic ants are for those who think that vibrant diversity is something you need to pay money to see. It is illegal to transport live ants across state lines.

 

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#9 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted July 5 2017 - 9:17 PM

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It's cool. Hope I didn't come off as rude earlier.


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