Post #1804068
2026-04-29 15:18 UTC
Replies (6)
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@futurebird@sauropods.win 2026-04-30 01:24
@minmi@sfba.social When an ant wants another ant to stop doing something or come look at something and she isn't listening the most extreme form of ant persuasion is bodily transportation. Pick up your sister who is digging in the wrong place (in your opinion) and move her to the right place. Every ant could do this, though older foragers tend to do it more than most. The queen often gets moved in this way since she is often too scared to move to a new nest on her own. But the workers just carry her.
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@kellyromanych@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 01:33
@minmi from what I understand, solitary bees do not have a middle manager. While they may live near each other, they work alone from start to finish, tucking in their next gen.
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@riley@toot.cat 2026-04-30 01:49
@minmi Ants might. @futurebird would know better. As far as I know, social bees (which is most of them) don't, and instead practice crowd-based collective decision-making. But it is possible that human scientists just can't see some managerial mechanism in beehives just yet.
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@meadow@lgbtqia.space 2026-04-30 04:39
@minmi Colony insects are fascinating.
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@Florapis@toot.wales 2026-04-30 05:07
@minmi in honey bees workers will butt other workers to get them to stop gathering what they are gathering and rethink. When finding new nest sites scout bees measure potential homes and come back to tell others until the best site is found. It would be chaos if they all just did their own thing. There can be rebellions in very big colonies, farflung corners with rogue workers laying drone eggs instead of working for the common good of the hive
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@burnitdown@beige.party 2026-04-30 07:00
@minmi no ant TPS reports