The Dhaka Times Desk In Brazil, scientists have discovered a giant underground colony of ants so large that it's almost a separate underground city of these creatures. Looking at the pictures and videos, one can't help but wonder how this creature went so far below the ground and built such a huge structure.
In short:
- This colony of ants was discovered in Brazil.
- Its area is 500 square feet.
- The location of this colony is about 25 feet below the soil.
- This is a disused colony, all the ants have died of some unknown cause.
Details: The huge colony of ants was first discovered by researchers late last year in brazil. There they later decided to dig it up completely to see how big the actual structure was and how it was built. After that, the researchers slowly dug and discovered some surprising scenes. This colony of ants is so huge that the entire colony is in size 500 square feet And it's built about 25 feet underground!
The researchers dug into the soil to see how these ants slowly built up the colony with perfect skill and architectural style. Researchers have called it the Great Wall of China for ants.
Researchers found that the colony had highways for ants, separate chambers, empty spaces, etc.
Most notably, these ants in the colony have a much higher chain of command than other common ants. Here first a queen ant starts this colony with about 300 million sperm from another male king ant, then the number of ants gradually increases. Three classes of ants live here, firstly the worker ants whose main job is to carry out the extended work of the colony, tending to the queen, collecting food from outside. Another category is that they take care of baby ants. Larger ants usually act as soldiers to protect the colony from external enemies. All the tasks of the colony are carried out according to the instructions of the queen ants of Vishal Khakar.
Watch the massive colony discovered in the video:
But sadly this colony is now an abandoned colony as all the ants here have died due to one reason or another. Researchers say this is the world's largest ant colony ever discovered. Researchers are trying to discover the reason for the death of the ants in this colony.
Source: The Tech Journal
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