Most ants have a secondary stomach called a “social stomach”. This secondary stomach is used to regurgitate the food through a process called trophallaxis to feed the young ants that are inside the nest.4yr ⋅ MacroAnts ⋅ r/Awwducational
My colony of carpenter ants take apart the bodies of the dead ants, leaving me with a pile of ant heads.5yr ⋅ MacroAnts ⋅ r/natureismetal
My Camponotus take apart the dead ants, so I’m left with a bunch of heads in their graveyard5yr ⋅ MacroAnts ⋅ r/antkeeping
