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September 01, 2016

Trapped in a nuclear weapon bunker wood ants survive for years in Poland
London, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2016
Having built their nest over the vertical ventilation pipe of an old nuclear weapon bunker in Poland, every year a large number of wood ants fall down the pipe to never return back to their colony. Curiously, although trapped in extremely severe conditions underground, the ants have already upped their numbers to these of big, mature natural colonies, while also carrying on with their basic activities of nest maintenance, constructing and moulding. This unique population is described in the open a ... read more

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