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Morphological transition occurring during nest digging in ants. (A–C) Snapshots of the nest showing the two successive digging stages (experiment 30). (A) First stage of homogeneous and circular digging. (B and C) Second stage where buds appear over the nest wall, some of them growing into lateral galleries through a branching process.
