| Tango01 | 31 Mar 2020 10:27 p.m. PST |
… Weapons Bunker – Here's What Happened. "In a recent development of the story about wood ants trapped in a post-Soviet nuclear weapons bunker in Poland, scientists, led by Professor Wojciech Czechowski, with the decisive contribution of Dr. István Maák, both from the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, deduced that the "colony" (in quotation marks because only workers were found), while lacking other food, had to survive on the corpses of imprisoned nestmates. By using an experimentally installed boardwalk, the ants were helped to get through the ventilation pipe that led out of the bunker and back to their maternal nest on the top. The ants were discovered in 2013 thanks to a yearly campaign set to count hibernating bats in the same bunker. The scientific report was published in 2016 also in Journal of Hymenoptera Research. At that time, the scientists estimated the presence of at least several hundred thousand workers, arguably close to a million. The insects ended up in this situation as a result of large numbers of wood ants continuously falling down a ventilation pipe to never return to their nest on top of the bunker. Several years later, the "colony" still appeared to be thriving, despite being trapped in a confined space with no light, heat and obvious source of food. In the newly published paper, the scientists sought out whether while lacking alternative food, the wood ants would consume the dead bodies of their conspecifics that were accumulating on the bunker floor. In nature, a similar behavior occurs frequently during spring, when protein food is scarce. These are the so-called "ant wars," which serve to set the boundaries of the territories of neighboring conspecific colonies of wood ants, while simultaneously providing food in the form of the fresh corpses of the numerous victims…"
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link Stumbling and falling in there … would be one of the horrible deaths …
Amicalement
Armand
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| JMcCarroll | 01 Apr 2020 7:08 a.m. PST |
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| Stryderg | 01 Apr 2020 8:04 a.m. PST |
Wait, ants stuck in a NUCLEAR weapons bunker?!?
I think that has the makings of a great movie: link |
| mghFond | 01 Apr 2020 9:24 a.m. PST |
My worry is what if they figure out how to use those weapons???? Gasp. |
| Thresher01 | 01 Apr 2020 10:10 a.m. PST |
Sounds like of the many that fell into the pit, most survived, so I think the claim of some dying from the fail to be dubious. Sounds like the strong eat the weak to me, or those that died from starvation. |
| Au pas de Charge | 01 Apr 2020 10:39 a.m. PST |
This story makes me feel antsy. |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 01 Apr 2020 10:45 a.m. PST |
Definitely needs a new movie. |
| Tango01 | 01 Apr 2020 11:56 a.m. PST |
Ha!Ha!Ha!…. Amicalement
Armand |
 Legion 4 | 01 Apr 2020 2:37 p.m. PST |
" Nuke the site from orbit … it's the only way to be sure … " |
| von Schwartz | 01 Apr 2020 6:20 p.m. PST |
Legion….is that your solution for everything? |
| Zephyr1 | 01 Apr 2020 9:28 p.m. PST |
A can of insect fogger would be easier…  |
| Narratio | 02 Apr 2020 2:28 a.m. PST |
@von Schwartz – Yes, it's Legion's solution for everything. I think that it's a very reasonable solution… pass me the launch codes please. |
| Robert le Diable | 02 Apr 2020 6:26 a.m. PST |
I'd look carefully at the date. |
| Jeffers | 02 Apr 2020 6:29 a.m. PST |
That would be…. Wait for it… INSECTICIDE 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜☠️ |
| Legion 4 | 02 Apr 2020 10:47 a.m. PST |
Legion….is that your solution for everything? Yes …
A can of insect fogger would be easier… But no where near as much fun ! @von Schwartz – Yes, it's Legion's solution for everything. I think that it's a very reasonable solution… pass me the launch codes please. |
