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Mixed-species exhibit - Ants and antlions

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Featuring wood ants, antlions and rose chafers, this clever exhibit shows how antlion larvae dig their pits, as well as explaining how an ant colony works and how wood ants protect themselves against intruders. The ants also use the perspex tube across the front of the exhibit.
Photo taken on the 6th February 2010.
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Featuring wood ants, antlions and rose chafers, this clever exhibit shows how antlion larvae dig their pits, as well as explaining how an ant colony works and how wood ants protect themselves against intruders. The ants also use the perspex tube across the front of the exhibit.
Photo taken on the 6th February 2010.
 
What's a rose chafer?
 
Cetonia aurata, a shiny (usually) metallic-green beetle found throughout Europe. It can reach about 2cm in length.
 

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