Today we will conduct a very interesting experiment - painting ants. This idea came to me a long time ago: it is interesting, if you color the syrup with food coloring and give the ants, will the abdomen be colored? As far as I know, it is not dangerous for ants.
Make syrup
To begin, let's make the basis - the syrup that ants drink. Take regular sugar and dilute with water about one to four. All this is thoroughly mixed until the sugar is completely dissolved. Now we take food coloring - it is absolutely safe for ants, there is nothing dangerous in the composition, although it looks quite “nuclear”. But we specifically bought just such colors to make the experiment as clear as possible.
Look how this paint glows in the ultraviolet: in my opinion, it's just magical. The glow is due to vitamin B12, which is contained in the composition. The food coloring in the jar directly emits some kind of magical radioactive light.
It looks really dangerous, but let me remind you again - the ants are completely safe. I really love this colony, I put a lot of effort into its development, and I would not risk the lives of ants.
The spectacle is truly mesmerizing. Now add our dye to the finished syrup.
The mistake was to get it in dry form - it is very difficult to stir this bright powder in water. We decided to mix the paint with honey and add water later. This method turned out to be more effective, our radioactive food for ants is almost ready: we carefully gather mass in a syringe. It looks really stunning, right? It’s hard to believe that the fluid is safe.
Feeding ants
We place a dose of our luminous syrup in the arena and now it will be the most interesting: the drop looks like accidentally spilled radioactive waste from some kind of science fiction film. Ants find food and start drinking, they are very hungry.
Interestingly, the syrup belts of ants inflated with syrup will glow? Watch carefully: the abdomen expands and we see a glow! Just super!
Have we really succeeded? You see the reflection of the glow on the foil. Other ants get drunk and begin to highlight the foil with their belly. I did not expect the effect to be so powerful - these insects are like phosphoric ones. Other ants are just black dots, but those that ate the “magic” syrup glow very brightly.
Effect achieved
We really did not expect to get such an effect. In life, if you look with your eyes, they are even brighter, more intense and directly glow with nuclear radiation.
It seems to me that the experiment was 100% successful and the nightlight turned out. What do you think? Write your thoughts in the comments.
I repeat once again that this dye is absolutely safe for ants. Now they feed each other with our syrup and charge others with a colorful and bright glow.
