Myrmecophiles: beetles living in an ant nest!

Some beetles, known as myrmecophiles, live their lives as uninvited members of an ant colony. This video shows live Xenodusa beetles living in a Camponotus carpenter ant nest, and the general behavior and biology of these beetles based on the European genera Lomechusa (formely called Atemeles) & Lomechusoides.

For more about these beetles
Check out this article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200309
And this article: https://myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=631&Itemid=366

Images from those articles are used and slightly modified under the provisions of their CC BY copyright.

Video by Adrian Smith

Music by http://www.soundofpicture.com/

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