Does that mean the ants were unable to communicate the upcoming danger to each other and had to rely on first-hand observation? That's surprising given how much they communicate otherwise.
One ant wandered to the good area and checked it all out. She then marched back to the others, and bodily lifted another and took her to the good area. They both inspected the area and each repeated the trek to pull in another ant. This continued until "enough" ants were in the new area and they shifted into "build a nest" mode.
It felt very oversimplified for TV viewers, but nonetheless was fascinating - a breakdown of just HOW some simple models can lead to more complex emergent behavior. I just tried to find this video without success (on the bright side, there are a ton of OTHER fascinating ant videos out there)
Humans can communicate with each other and yet they behave surprisingly similar to those ants and maybe also often need first-hand observation.
...I'll show myself out
This way rogue ants can't destroy the colony without having 51% consensus on where to move the queen.
"Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave."
This is of course a fallacy as "Joe" the protagonist winds up shooting himself and ends up in a mental hospital. We aren't supposed to sympathise with that notion.
moving+ant+colony+to+enclosure+queen
flooding formicarium
Workers move queen ant
Seem to be returning promising videos
Again on train on broken phone, haven’t watched this but it takes you into the YouTube space of ant keepers