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pavel_lishin on Sept 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nucle...

That's incredible. I always thought it would be on the order of weeks for a worker, and maybe a few years for a queen.

I feel extra bad for killing these little guys as a kid.

ajuc on Sept 3, 2016 [–]

Well they have to survive the winter somehow, so it must be at least several months.

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