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Keepers see the same split: colonies take seeds eagerly, especially in a dry spell, but a growing colony also eats a great deal of live or freshly killed insects, so never rely on seeds alone.",{"question":253,"answer":254},"Why do the small Carebara diversa workers ride on the big ones?","Nearly all the workers of a wild colony, which can number in the hundreds of thousands, are minors, and they are often seen hitching a ride on the large majors along the foraging trails, sometimes in a crowd. This is thought to save the small workers energy. It also shows how the work is divided: the tiny minors search for food, swarm over prey and haul most loads, while the bigger workers do the heavy jobs, such as delivering the crushing bite to large prey, clearing fallen debris from the trails and carrying brood when the colony moves house.","Workers come in every size, from tiny yellowish-brown minors to big reddish-brown to blackish majors with almost square, powerful heads, and the queen dwarfs them all. Keepers often confuse it with the similar Carebara affinis, and the Asian Carebara of this type have not been thoroughly revised, so colonies sold under this name are not always confirmed to species level.","en",{},true,[260,263,266,268],{"kind":261,"text":262},"watchOut","Do not start small. 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