Thursday, October 20, 2022

Nothomyrmecia macropes

Poochera SA is almost a ghost town but it has an open air museum with a public toilet.
The museum has a display of rusted farm machinery and an ant.
The actual ants are nocturnal and solitary out side of their nests so are very hard to find. It is thought that this behaviour is similar to the first ants. There is a large model and some photographs on site at the museum.
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