Ants (1970)

Close-up - ants.

Summer, pine forest, trees, mounds of needles and twigs - anthills - are visible in the clearing.

Close-up - an anthill in the forest.

The picture shows the structure of the anthill - an outer dome penetrated by many passages and chambers and a large part that is in the ground.

Close-up - the movement of ants along the underground passages of the anthill is shown.

In the underground chambers of the anthill there are white ant eggs and larvae.

It is shown how the ants lay cocoons, in which the larvae are, in one of the chambers.

Worker ants move along the passages of the anthill.

A large female ant surrounded by ants.

Close-up - winged ants (males).

Ants move along an underground tunnel.

Forest, grass, anthill.

Winter, forest, snow, snowdrifts.

The anthill mound is covered with snow.

Ants wintering in the underground part of the anthill - all the ants are huddled together, the females are in the center.

An anthill under the snow in the forest, on one side the snow has already melted.

Close-up - the first ants appear on the surface of the anthill after hibernation.

Spring, the snow is melting, in the frame - a small river.

An anthill in the forest, the snow has almost melted.

The awakening of the ant family is shown - the ants begin to move in the chambers, wake up, and show activity.

Close-up - the ants move along the holes and passages in the anthill.

The worker ants climb the slope of the dome and, having warmed themselves in the sun, go back down into the anthill.

Thus, cooling down, they warm the nest.

Large - an anthill in a spring forest.

Large - ants on the surface of the anthill.

Large - females rise from the depths of the nest, worker ants look after the females, feed them, and lick them thoroughly.

Large - a piece of elderberry soaked in the female's secretions.

It is shown that the ants look after it in the same way as they look after the female.

A female and ants in an underground chamber of an anthill - the female begins to lay eggs.

Large - ant eggs.

Larvae hatch from the eggs.

The ants feed the larvae with secretions from their salivary glands.

The larvae are constantly carried either deep into the nest or back up again.

Large - ants with larvae.

Before turning into pupae, the larvae weave cocoons.

It is shown how the ants look after the pupae, carry them, etc.

Ants carry larvae to the surface of the anthill.

Close-up - ants help a new inhabitant of the anthill to emerge from the cocoon.

Close-up - males in the anthill.

Close-up - young female ants.

It is shown that young ants have two pairs of membranous wings.

Close-up - an anthill in a summer forest.

The frame shows winged females and a male ant on the anthill.

Winged females and males fly out of the nest.

Close-up - ants on the leaves of plants in the forest.

Fertilization occurs - the males die, and the females, having descended to the ground, bite off their wings.

Panorama of the forest, a clearing, in the frame - an anthill.

Close-up - an ant in an underground passage of the anthill.

Close-up - an ant eating.

Ants underground, in the nest, begin to lay eggs.

An anthill in the forest.

It is shown how the worker ants underground do not accept a new female, since the anthill is already overcrowded.

Close-up - ants are fighting with a large female.

It is shown how a female red forest ant is trying to penetrate the nest of brown ants.

Close-up - a female red forest ant in a nest, with smaller brown ants nearby.

Close-up - a large anthill with ants in the forest, a panorama of a new small anthill.

Ants on the ground, moving between two anthills.

An anthill in the forest.

Close-up - anthill dome needles, ants scurrying between them.

The surface of the anthill dome, a hand with a stick stirs the surface - a small hole is formed.

Close-up - ants are restoring the integrity of the dome.

An anthill in the forest in a clearing.

Shows how ants regulate the temperature in the nest - they open and then close the ventilation holes in the dome.

At night, all the holes in the dome are closed.

An anthill in the forest, a panorama of a clearing, in the frame is the place where the ants take out the trash.

Close-up - ants scurrying around in the nest, collecting dead ants.

Ants carry dead ants from the nest to the surface.

Close-up - an ant.

Close-up - the upper jaws of an ant (mandibles).

An anthill in the forest.

Panorama of ants scurrying in the grass.

Ants dragging a moth.

Ants on a path in the forest.

Close-up - ants dragging a caterpillar.

Various shots of ants with prey in the form of insects (butterflies, caterpillars, etc.).

Ants underground drag a caterpillar and a fly along underground passages to the nest.

Close-up - a tree trunk.

Close-up - ants scurrying around in the bark of a tree, in the frame - aphids.

Ants eat the sweet secretions of aphids.

Forest, grass, a thistle flower.

Close-up - aphids on a plant stem.

Ants carry aphids to young shoots, protect them from enemies, etc.

Close-up - an ant on a flower stem, with aphid eggs nearby.

Close-up - ants running along a stem.

Ants move along underground passages.

Food that gets into the crop of one ant is distributed among many.

Close-up - ant antennae.

Ants communicate with each other using antennae (these are the organs of smell and touch).

Close-up - an anthill with ants.

Close-up - a hand pours strange ants from a glass into an anthill.

Alarmed ants spray a special substance.

Having smelled it, all the neighboring ants take a defensive posture and secrete the same substance.

At the end of the abdomen of worker ants there are glands from which formic acid, poisonous to insects, can be secreted.

Close-up - an anthill with ants scurrying back and forth.

A field, a meadow, a slope, grass, wildflowers, etc.

Plant leaves on the ground.

Close-up - ants in the soil.

In the frame - harvester ants.

An ant crawls out of a hole in the ground.

Harvester ants move along the stem of a plant.

Reapers collect plant seeds and take them to their nest.

Ants on plant stems.

Seeds in the underground chamber of an anthill.

The seeds in the damp chambers begin to germinate, and the starch turns into sugar.

The ants gnaw off the emerging sprouts, and grind the seeds into powder and, having moistened it with saliva, feed it to the larvae.

Large - ants feed the larvae.

A nest of Amazon ants in the forest.

The ants crawl out of the hole - in addition to the Amazon ants, we also see brown ants.

It is shown how the ants scurry back and forth, climb into the nest, climb out of it, etc.

The Amazons are underground, moving along underground passages.

Large - the Amazons are fed by brown ants.

Large - the powerful sickle-shaped jaws of the Amazon ant.

Large - Amazon ants.

Brown ants look after the female Amazon and her offspring.

Brown ants near pupae.

The frame shows an anthill on the surface.

The ants move along the underground passages of the anthill.

Amazons come out of the nest to the surface.

Various shots with ants on the ground, scurrying in different directions, etc.

It is shown that the column of ants stretches for several meters.

Ants in the grass, among plants.

Panorama of the column of ants moving on the ground, on stones, etc.

The frame shows a nest of brown ants.

The ants crawl out of the hole to the surface, drag prey into the nest, etc.

The Amazons attack the brown ants, penetrate their nest, the brown ants resist, but the Amazons are stronger - they win (the fight of ants in the underground passages of the anthill is shown).

Amazons enter the chamber where the cocoons of brown ant larvae are stored, take the cocoons, and bring them to the surface.

A column of Amazon ants moves with their prey in the form of cocoons towards their nest.

Amazons with brown ant cocoons climb into their nest.

A clearing, a view of an anthill.

A forest, ants moving along a tree trunk.

A forest clearing.

Large - an antlion larva burrows into the sand.

Large - a hole in the sand, an ant runs past.

Ants on the sand.

A hole in the sand.

An ant falls into the hole, flounders among the grains of sand, and becomes prey for the antlion larva.

The second ant also falls into the hole.

An anthill in a forest clearing.

The frame shows an anthill destroyed by people.

Forestry workers carry a wooden box, pour out ants along with an anthill for resettlement in a new place.

Various shots with an anthill in the forest and ants.