Leaf Cutting Ant Forum

Flew to Creitel University in Paris today to deliver 2 Atta colonies and 2 Acromyrmex colonies.
Juliette, the researcher there, was fantastic and we worked together setting the housing up for them.
Took some pics of the room the ants are held in.



The setup is a darkened nest tank with a tube leading to a foraging tank (a plastic tank on end with Fluon to prevent escape) and a small dump chamber.


This is Juliette working with ne of the setups


The black tank is the nest tank.

Are these all going to be on display or studied?

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Studied. Juliette works every second month in Guadeloupe on Acros in the field. This will be their lab based source of ants for the work they are doing.

Acromyrmexbob wrote:Studied. Juliette works every second month in Guadeloupe on Acros in the field. This will be their lab based source of ants for the work they are doing.

I would love a job like that.....have been wondering about a PhD on leaf cutters....hmmmm...would be fully financed by my university.