Feeding Ants and Observing Behavior

For the second year in a row, I'm giving ants an excuse not to work,

the whole

colony. For a whole month, I pour out a kilo of sugar for them.

I mean, gotta love that feeling of sudden wealth,

crashing their economy,

inflation, labor, and all that. People in the comments tell me it ruins

the

anthill, that it'll start fermenting and whatever.

In reality, the ants eat all that sugar overnight

and sleep like babies, and

every year the anthill just gets bigger and bigger.

I'm practically waiting for them to build me a monument.

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In the last reel, the ants got two pounds of sugar,

but now today we're not

hooking the ants up with just two pounds of sugar, but a whole 44!

We're giving the bottom layers of the anthill food raining straight down from

the

sky, and you can already hear the tiny little

voices.

All hail Jay! All hail Jay!

Today, the lower class ants get sugar too, not just the top tier, and later we'll

see how resources get distributed in the anthill.

Will the top keep growing or will it spread out wide?

If the top grows faster, everyone's getting an equal share.

If it spreads wide, it means someone's skimming off the common

stash.

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After the sugar, the ants need sports protein,

and they're finally getting it.

Let's see if they start building micro gyms everywhere or not.

This snow field of protein looks like an impossible mission, but these little guys

pulled it off in half an hour. And I also made a little mound nearby for

an

experiment. They spent way longer on this one,

but unlike sugar, it was

vanishing right before my eyes. Plus, they don't carry the protein loose.

They roll it into tiny little dumplings and take it straight to the queen and the

larvae, and they process the protein and feed it back to the worker ants as

drops of nutrient juice. So basically, a ready-made protein shake.

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These ants have been getting sweet windfalls of sugar, and now we're going to

connect this anthill with a sugar trail, right, right to that one over there, and

see if it'll be peace or war. The ants headed out to scout and ran into

each other. The scouts returned home, and soon reinforcements started pouring in

from both sides. There was only one micro scuffle spotted,

but a full-scale war

never broke out. Turns out, both anthills are part of one massive

colony, and the

sugar trail turned into a full-on ant highway.

In the end, the bigger anthill took most of the sugar

for themselves.

As you can see, there can be competition even within the

same colony.

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