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Ant Color Vision

Question:

I keep companotus herculeanus (carpinter ants) [Camponotus herculeanus carpenter ants] i’ve got the queen to nest in a bit of rotton wood in a hollow next to the glass i want to be able to look at the nest so other ant keepers have told me to put red film over the glass as ants [...]

Ant “Tongues”

Isn’t is funny how one thing can lead to another? I reviewed a children’s book about animal tongues recently, which got me thinking about ant mouthparts and more particularly, ant “tongues.”

First of all, do ants even have tongues? They don’t have anything that looks like a vertebrate tongue, but they definitely have a structure that [...]