I believe this is, according to Australia standards for weights and measures, a metric shit tonne of ants.

Maybe two shit tonnes.

#Ants #Antstodon

Photo of some towels in a cupboard illuminated by a torch, revealing a colony of small black ants and their larvae all over the cupboard wall and towels.

Oh no, they're back! Or, more likely, never really left. The brood is now one shelf further up the linen press.

Clearly more drastic action is needed in order to make this cupboard unappealing to them. At a minimum I'm going to have to take out all the towels and […]

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The laundry ant colony has at least given me something interesting to point my cheapo USB microscope at.

Lots of workers looking after the larvae, some callows, and a few alates.

The bright light from the USB microscope clearly agitated them, which suggests to […]

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Photo the inside of a cupboard. On one shelf is a towel, and a mass of small black ants.

Close up photo of small back ants tending their brood on a shelf in a cupboard.

Ladies, I don't generally mind having a few ants around the house, but I really don't think a shelf in our laundry press is a good place to keep your brood.

#Antstodon #Ants