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Over 2,500 species of fish and 3,200 species of molluscs are native to the Indonesian archipelago. There is a correspondingly vibrant profusion of underwater life (including the largest fish in the world-the forty-foot long whale shark) in Indonesia’s warm, sunlit waters. The Old World fruit bat, or flying fox (Pteropodidae family), is the most widespread creature throughout the island chain: the blue skies of Indonesia are filled with fifty-seven different species, including the largest megabats on earth with three to five foot wingspans. Indonesia teems with life both bizarre and wonderful: it has the world’s tallest flower on Sumatra, tiny 2 millimeter-long fig wasps on Krakatoa, edible marine worms (nyale) on Sumba, and tree-dwelling kangaroos in Papua New Guinea. An important terrestrial and marine eco-habitat, it is now home to 30,000 plant species, one-third of the world’s 7,000 known species of fish, and one-fifth of the 1,539 known species of birds in existence today. Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago nation, with 17,502 islands: its rainbow biodiversity now rivals that of the Amazon rainforests. Spiders on the wind and birds and bats on the wing flitted from island to island and coconuts on the waves rolled up on new shores for the very first time. As if in a second Noah’s arc, Asian mammals and Australian marsupials swam across shallow open seas-which had once stretched unbroken all the way from Asia to Australia-to populate these new, cooled-down, lush island land masses.
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Life itself naturally gravitated to this ideal new environment: the archipelago’s 155 active volcanoes, tropical heat, abundant high rainfall, and fertile volcanic soil nurtured luxuriant forests, extravagant vegetation, and a concomitant, staggering variety of wildlife. Stretching 3,000 miles along the equator, Indonesia became a primal stepping stone for migratory wildlife from both southern Asia and northern Australia. Massive chunks of the earth’s crust ground together and tore apart, molten lava spewed violently from the ocean floor, and a spectacular new archipelago of over 17,000 islands burst forth out of the Ring of Fire. If they did, these two workers will follow the trail back to its source, then come back to the hive while erasing the trail and all signs of passage.- 3 workers.Fifty million years ago, the Asian and Australian continental plates drifted towards each other and crashed in a primordial, cataclysmic collision. After that worker has been sent, the other two will see if the intruder left a pheromonal trail. Send one worker to re-assign the construction ants to close the entryways, if they are not part of our design. If found, find out where the intruder got in and/or out. Search the nest for signs of passage by foreign ants. If It's A Slave Making Ant We Are So Dead If it's a trail from slave-making ants we are going to get raided and will need to flee our nest or else have our queen be slain and our offspring stolen and enslaved.īut, since a larva was stolen and only a single larva, a thief ant is the most likely. If we do find pheromones, we need to a) erase the trail, b) while following it to its source. In such a case, we need to inspect how our nest is constructed to a) find pheromones, b) close entryways, c) find out how many entryways remain so that we can have a better knowledge of the # of necessary guards. In both cases, the most likely situation is an ant coming into our nest from the outside. There are two possibilities: slave-making ants Slave-making ant - Wikipedia (awful) and thief ants (not that bad).
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Larva got stole, so something got in our nest somehow. Larvae are eating a lot of food but we still have kind of high food supply. Granary still under construction and needs some people. Only need 1 worker to tend eggs/larva - (?) same # of workers needed for larva, right? - thx to nursery.