AntWorks part V: New colony
After unanticipated problems with some of the individuals, we decided to free the previous colony. However, new ants arrived, species of Formica Nuutinentia Magnus.
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Apart from exploring the new environment, our new volunteers began immediately to digg their tunnels. Also, in contrast with the previous sample, this new colony does not hold meetings so often. Instead, certainly a high level of individual responsibility can be observed.
Shortly about the transport of the ants and their placement into the space-habitat: it turned out to be a good trick to decrease the temperature of the surrounding air to about 8C (not a problem in Finland during these days). Without doing that, the ants became too active and they resisted the transport by disoriented running all around.