Ants trapped for years in an old bunker; survival by cannibalism and eventual escape

Successful evacuation of a peculiar ‘colony’ of the wood ant Formica polyctena Först., for years trapped within an old bunker previously used for storing nuclear weapons (see Czechowski et al. 2016), is reported. Using an experimentally installed boardwalk, the imprisoned ants mana...

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Main Authors: Tomasz Rutkowski, István Maák, Kari Vepsäläinen, Gema Trigos-Peral, Wojciech Stephan, Grzegorz Wojtaszyn, Wojciech Czechowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-10-01
Series:Journal of Hymenoptera Research
Online Access:https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/download/pdf/