Ant Lasius niger colony members explained
The BBC's One Show has re-visited the University of Sussex Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, but this time the focus was on ants rather than honey bees. The popular tea-time TV show had previously visited LASI to film research on the honey bee waggle dance. The report, broadcast in November last year, demonstrated how foraging bees tell other bees back at the hive where to find nectar-rich flowers. The production team was so impressed by the work at LASI they vowed to return. During the latest visit (Friday 9 July 2010), presenter and Oxford entomologist Dr George McGavin chatted with the ant researchers while the film crew captured ants laying and following chemical trails. The report will be broadcast when The One Show is back on air in the autumn. Ants communicate with each other in many ways.
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