Australian Ant Art™ is casting three bull ant nests for the Queensland Museum's Insect Agency Exhibition, opening September 2023. We used 250 of the 260 kg of aluminium we brought with us to complete the castings. In this video we start the long process of of digging and extracting the nests without breaking them. The goal for the day is to have the nests clear at the top so that we can tell the excavator where to dig the next day, without breaking the nests.

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Species cast:
Nest 1 - Myrmecia brevinoda
Nest 2 - Myrmecia brevinoda
Nest 3 - Myrmecia tarsata

Casting date: 28/6/2023

All music sourced from YouTube Creator Studio:
I Had a Feeling – TrackTribe
Positive Fuse – French Fuse
Stellar Wing – Unicorn Heads

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

Video shot and edited by Jim A. Barker, Twelve Points Photography. Find his work at twelvepoints.photography or Instagram.com/thejimclasshero.