Today and yesterday we saw the queen ants start their colonies. Once a year something called the nuptial flight accrues when a queen ant and a male ant fly up into the air. After the queen gets what she needs from the male, she come back down to the ground and digs around a foot underground while the male ant dies from exhaustion. Once she's done digging she lays her fungus and starts a new colony! Here's a video on what it looks like when a queen ant starts her colony.
Leave it to me to post something non-science related, but here goes: The Copa America 2016 soccer tournament is starting today. Tomorrow (Saturday June 4) Costa Rica plays Paraguay at 5pm ET in Orlando, FL. Have you met any locals? Are they excited about the match?
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