Ants are eating landshells and cleaning the shells
itselves inside.

with best shelling greetings
Helmut

--- uri bar-zeev <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
Dear Land-Sheller’s
>
> While I was looking after land shells, I
> “discovered” that there are
> Plenty of empty shells in the grit of seeds around
> Ants nest.
> Most of them are of the kind of Euchondrus
> septemdentatus, which looks very
> much like a wheat grain by itself.
> Now my question is – why?
> Were they collected by the ants as ‘seeds’ and than
> disappointedly removed?
> Or were they collected as nutrition for the ants?
> Or maybe dug out by the ants while digging their
> nest?
> Are you familiar with these phenomena?
> Please shed some light ;-)
> Regards - uri

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Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria
phone: 0043 512 573214
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web: www.netwing.at/nisters

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