Our first stand is a Soviet-era city abandoned by people, which is being developed and remade for themselves by its new inhabitants - ants. They move into apartments in Soviet "Khrushchev-era" buildings, set up food warehouses in our former stores, and unload railway cars. The ants also travel through transparent underwater tunnels connecting two parts of the city, under the watchful eyes of amazed fish.

We have settled great workers in our "City of Ants" - harvester ants (lat. Messor structor). This species of ants, living in the steppes of southern Russia, as well as in the central and southern parts of Ukraine, feeds mainly on the seeds of cereal plants, for which it makes quite impressive reserves. Harvester ants store all their seeds in special chambers inside the nest, periodically moving them from one chamber to another to select the optimal humidity for storing seeds. And sometimes they even take the seeds outside to dry.