The Ants appeared on the Icelandic television series Landinn.
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Ants of iceland on twitter, Instagram and Youtube
To increase the chances of people learning that ants do in fact exist in Iceland, we have made a page on twitter, instagram and Youtube.
As of yet, these pages will all be in Icelandic.
Ant worker carrying a larva out of the nest
The entrance of an ant nest can be very busy in these warm Icelandic summer days.
Workers are tirelessly walking in and outside the nest: foragers that leave the nest to look for food and then come back a few minutes later with food in their mandibles.
At the end of the video, we can also see a worker carrying a larva. Since many Lasius sp. may exhibit weak polydomy (the same colony can occupy two or more separated nests), this ant is presumably moving the larva from that nest to the next one, a few centimeters far.