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Ants don't like to work

05.06.2020

The incredible industriousness that ants supposedly have is a myth. This conclusion was reached by researchers from the United States of America, who observed ant colonies for several years.

Entomologists Daniel Chabrono and Anna Dorhaus did not believe in the myth of industrious ants and decided to conduct an experiment to find out how these insects actually behave. The study, which lasted for two years, showed that ants in general are very lazy creatures.

As part of the observations, scientists marked insects from several colonies with different colors, and then set up cameras that monitored the ants. The experiment was carried out, among other things, in order to study working relationships in insect communities.

As a result, it turned out that only about two and a half percent of the insects behaved as it is commonly believed, that is, they showed diligence. The rest of the ants either did nothing at all (25 percent) or mimicked vigorous activity, working only occasionally (70 percent). At first, the researchers simply could not believe their discovery, so they suggested that the ants work, for example, in shifts. But no, further observations have confirmed that the industriousness of ants is just a myth that has no real evidence.

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