I noticed after putting some ant traps that the ants that die get carried away by their brethren but where do they take them and why
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When ants are alive they produce a scent that lets other ants know that they are alive. When they die this scent goes away and other ants transport the corpses to the ant graveyard.
There was an experiment where scientists surpressed the scent on living ants and they were transported to the graveyard even though the were alive.
This is to keep the colony clean.
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