The Ants build a ladder to escape the Bugbat

20181101 Nov 1 2018

The Ants build a ladder to escape the Bugbat

An army of ants has been growing in this Bugbat pitcher. Today they got organized.

The ants formed 2 columns (a ladder perhaps?) to get them out of the digestive zone. Unfortunately, their ladder only gets them to the Zone 2-3 boundary.

Curses, foiled again by the slippery surface of Zone 2.

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S. Bugbat (this end up)

I have started filming the outside of the pitcher so I could keep track of the pitcher the video was shot in. Sometimes its perpendicular to what it should be. OOPS

Another video in the same pitcher the next day

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Meanwhile, in another Bugbat pitcher…

Almost no ants at all. Just a very lost roach

This is very puzzling. And it's not that it's in a pitcher of a different Bugbat plant. This was a in a Bugbat pitcher of the same plant!

See for yourself.

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Just for comparison, there were no ants in the Judith Hindle

and in the Leucophylla: a few live ants on a pile of ant carcasses

Not sure why there are ants in some and not other pitchers.