WARSAW, Poland — Scientists have discovered a unique colony of worker ants living in an abandoned nuclear war bunker in Poland, UPI reported.
The workers are the lost members of a nearby colony of wood ants Formica polyctena who built their nest atop the bunker. The below-ground colony is made up of those who have periodically fallen down the rusted-out ventilation pipe.
Surprisingly, the fallen workers have carried on in the harsh conditions of the underground bunker, constructing and maintaining a sizable nest.
Most wood ants live on the forest floor, living off the sugary syrup-like secretion left behind by plant-eating aphids. There are no aphids in the nuclear war bunker. There's no light either.
The bunker was built by the Soviets during the Cold War to house nuclear warheads.
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Source: UPI
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