i got this info from a book.

in 1938 Ivan Sanderson was studying the ATTA of Leaf-Cutter ant. two Dutch scientists were his colleagues. in the course of their studies they became thoroughly mystified by a feature of the behaviour of the queen ant which seemed to defy rational explaination. they would break into one of the chambers containing a queen ant, and after covering it up again, would find that 'in a matter of minutes she had vanished'.
the queen ant's chamber is built underground, with walls up to three inches thick. it is perforated by a number of tiny portholes, giving access to the ants which feed and clean the queen and carry off her eggs to the nurseries. the queen spends her whole time eating and laying eggs, and since she is about 1000 times the size of the workers there is no question of her leaving the chamber in the normal way. here writes Sanderson, is the problem:
  'It has been observer that, if you do get to a queen chamber, and carefully slice a side off it, you may observe the tightfitting insect within and can mark it carefully with a squirt of dye. as long as the chamber is left open, or resealed only by a piece of glass, nothing happens. often the queen dies or is taken apart by the workers. sometimes she just goes on egg-laying - dye and all. however, if you cover her up even for a few minutes, something happens. she vanishes!'
  this could well be explained, and was originally thought to have been so and adequately, by the notion that her workers killed her and removed the remains. but don't forget the dye, which was in some cases sprayed on in very complex patterns.
 'further digging in some cities within hours brought to light, to the dumbfoundment of everybody, apparently the same queen, all duly dyed with intricate identifying marks, dozens of feet away in another super-concrete-hard cell, happily eating, excreting and producing eggs!'
Sanderson continued to expound a belief that the ATTA queens travelled from chamber to chamber by teleportation.


what do you think?
and if you find a web site on animal teleportation could you please tell me

Dowdy,

That's certainly an interesting idea - an insect with it's own natural teleporter. The mystery of the disappearing Queen Ant that then reappears somewhere totally different is also very strange. Has there been any other evidence of teleporting insects before - and if the Queen does have the ability to teleport, how on earth does it do it ? I can't imagine how something like that could be genetically built into an insect. Given the intelligence of insects, it would be unusual for one to exhibit such an incredibly advanced technological ability. If ants can teleport about though, it wouldn't be long before science has figured out how, and managed to replicate it.

another animal who seems to be able to teleport is the termites (white ants) of Africa. one person suggested that the termite queens may develop teleportation as a way of moving to a new and larger quarters when the old ones become too much of a squeeze. once again we hear of a chamber with hard, thick walls, a huge queen and tiny service holes.

Mabe an advanced race of aliens came here and gave the ants and termites a very small teleportation machine to keep in their queen's chambers. ;D    Or the aliens performed genetic experiments allowing the insects to teleport themselves without the need for a machine ;D    Or...

Seriously though, I have never heard such a thing. It's very interesting. If it's true, then the theory would become fact, and it would be only a matter of time before I could have my very own teleportation machine. ;D   I cant wait!!

Hmmm...animal teleportation, technological advancement  is out of the question in this case, but there are stories about  tibetan? "shamanism" in which there are 9 levels to perfection; the last level being akin to teleportation but more spiritual than than scientific.
Good luck

Maybe the quenns can dig their own tunnels? They can be stronger than most people think