Ant Lab | Myrmecophiles: beetles living in an ant nest! @AntLab | Uploaded September 2018 | Updated October 2024, 9 minutes ago.
Some beetles, known as myrmecophiles, live their lives as uninvited members of an ant colony. This video shows live Xenodusa beetles living in a Camponotus carpenter ant nest, and the general behavior and biology of these beetles based on the European genera Lomechusa (formely called Atemeles) & Lomechusoides.
For more about these beetles
Check out this article: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200309
And this article: myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=631&Itemid=366
Images from those articles are used and slightly modified under the provisions of their CC BY copyright.
Video by Adrian Smith
Music by soundofpicture.com
Some beetles, known as myrmecophiles, live their lives as uninvited members of an ant colony. This video shows live Xenodusa beetles living in a Camponotus carpenter ant nest, and the general behavior and biology of these beetles based on the European genera Lomechusa (formely called Atemeles) & Lomechusoides.
For more about these beetles
Check out this article: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200309
And this article: myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=631&Itemid=366
Images from those articles are used and slightly modified under the provisions of their CC BY copyright.
Video by Adrian Smith
Music by soundofpicture.com
