Red wood ants at work, video

This video shows two worker red wood ants.

One of them licks fluid from between the moss and transfers it to the other ant.

Danielle Hagenbeek from the Netherlands made this video.

Red wood ants in spring: here.

Ants have been domesticating cultivated crops for 50 million years, research reveals: here.

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