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Act)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.env.go.jp\u002Fnature\u002Fintro\u002F2outline\u002Flist.html",[175],"species\u002Fdinomyrmex-gigas","Formicinae",[191,192],22,26,"Camponotini",[195,196],18,25,"xpxjE3vNJ9Ol8lg35bOpR7GtaWsVPbHZnShJPDJ6bHo","dinomyrmex-gigas","Dinomyrmex","Giant forest ant",[202],"Malaysian giant ant","A night-active giant of the Southeast Asian rain forests, whose sprawling colonies settle border disputes with ritual tournaments between big-headed majors.",{"id":205,"title":206,"aliases":201,"body":207,"description":211,"extension":214,"faqs":215,"identification":225,"language":226,"meta":227,"navigation":228,"nickname":200,"notes":229,"path":240,"seo":241,"stem":188,"tagline":203,"__hash__":242},"speciesProfiles\u002Fspecies\u002Fdinomyrmex-gigas.md","Dinomyrmex Gigas",{"type":208,"value":209,"toc":210},"minimark",[],{"title":211,"searchDepth":212,"depth":212,"links":213},"",2,[],"md",[216,219,222],{"question":217,"answer":218},"Is Dinomyrmex gigas the same ant as 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Latreille described it in 1802 as Formica gigas, and it was long listed as Camponotus gigas. In 2016 Ward, Blaimer and Fisher resurrected the genus Dinomyrmex, which Ashmead had named in 1905, because DNA showed that this ant sits on its own lineage, separate from both Camponotus and Colobopsis. Many shops, forums and older papers still use the old name.",{"question":220,"answer":221},"How many workers does a wild Dinomyrmex gigas colony have?","Thousands, but spread out. In a rain forest in Borneo the best-studied colony had roughly 7,000 workers living in an average of 11 mostly underground nests over about 0.8 hectares, with the queen in one central nest. A single log nest opened in Brunei held 834 ants, 45 of them majors. Almost nothing is known about captive colonies: in the one documented founding experiment, the queen had six workers ten months after she was caught.",{"question":223,"answer":224},"Why do giant forest ants fight in ritual tournaments?","It is how neighboring colonies of the same species settle their borders without costly wars. Researchers in Borneo saw majors meet at fixed places and box each other with their front legs, night after night, while small groups of majors stood guard at key points such as the bases of foraging trees. Fights with other Camponotus species, by contrast, were violent and bloody, and the ants also sprayed acid.","The sheer size gives it away: slender black ants with long legs and antennae, an orange to reddish-brown gaster, and two kinds of workers, smaller minors and larger majors with a much bigger head. It is one of the largest ants in the world, and the subspecies from South Borneo has yellow legs.","en",{},true,[230,233,236,238],{"kind":231,"text":232},"watchOut","Keep it moderately warm and very humid rather than hot. The one peer-reviewed rearing used plaster nests at a steady moderate temperature with very humid air, and keepers who reached the first workers used a dark, humid container. Some shops advise a warmer nest, but others warn that this nocturnal forest ant copes badly with heat.",{"kind":234,"text":235},"tip","Plan for several connected nests instead of one block. In nature a colony spreads over many mostly underground nests joined by trails, with the queen in a central one, and the German species directory describes its space needs as extreme.",{"kind":234,"text":237},"Keep a sugar source on offer at all times and add small insects in the evening. Foragers in the wild bring home mostly honeydew, with only a little prey and bird droppings, and the colony leaves its nest at dusk to forage through the night.",{"kind":231,"text":239},"Expect a slow start and very few role models. 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This is one of the best nest types for many ant species!","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.brumaants.com\u002Fimages\u002Fbruma_ants_thumbnail_ytong_ant_nest_tutorial.png","Tutorials & D.I.Y.","\u002Fhow-to-make-a-ytong-nest",1791900224355]