RE: DEATH IN THE DUST
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It's not unusual to see ants dismantling small carcasses
I can remember coming across carcasses in the woods when I was a child (I lived in a very rural area), but ants are not in the picture. Maybe I just don't remember them. I do recall other decomposers--wormy, larval creatures. This was in the northeastern foothills of the Appalachian mountain range (NY, USA).
Really impressive work--your video and the industrious ants.
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It surely varies from place to place, from habitat to habitat. I see these black ants often on carcasses on the dry meadows along the coast where they build very large colonies, not in other places. In woods here, I sometimes see much smaller ant species transporting only dead insects, moths and butterflies mostly.