Chores of a tropical worker bee: drinking excess condensation water inside the hive, then spitting it out at the hive entrance 💦 🐝

Leafcutter ants in the morning sun 🐜🐜🐜

Tandem running in 🐜 is a fascinating communication behaviour & is often considered a case of animal teaching.

But what do follower ants actually learn?👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great work by @ainacolovila.bsky.social, Tara Williams and Simone Glaser 👏👏

Ants rolling downhill when disturbed😲 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59954-9#MOESM3

& they only show this behaviour when on a slope, which makes sense, but is also quite impressive