{"id":2056,"date":"2011-03-09T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2011-03-15T12:06:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:06:23","slug":"colonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"colonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFg21x2sj-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ah, ants moved out first right?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a leafcutter colony over at the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montshire.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Montshire Museum<\/a>.  They&#8217;ve recreated the various chambers and tunnels from clear plexiglass so you can stand and watch the different ants doing their respective chores.  There&#8217;s the graveyard and the fungus gardens and the dumps and a chamber where they dump in leaves to fuel the whole operation.  The leaves actually grow the fungus that sustains the ants.  It&#8217;s amazing.  We took our niece there last Fall and I spent the entire time watching the ants.  I only ever caught a glimpse of the giant queen hiding out in one of the gardens.  She&#8217;s easily bigger than a bumblebee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ah, ants moved out first right? There&#8217;s a leafcutter colony over at the wonderful Montshire Museum. They&#8217;ve recreated the various chambers and tunnels from clear plexiglass so you can stand and watch the different ants doing their respective chores. There&#8217;s the graveyard and the fungus gardens and the dumps and a chamber where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,20,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}