Easter and culonas also arrive with April´s rains; Santandereanas ants of whose big abdomen (10 xs 7 mm, Aproxm.) they are naming thus.
Ant queens begin their nuptial flight after one night of rain and after a sunny day the drone waits for her and he fertilizes her and after that only and happy act of love, he falls to the ground and it dies.
The fertilized queen rushes to ground, she takes away her wings and begins to dig a hole in the soft ground, this way to initiate the foundation of her own colony. It will pass a long year to prepare the birth of new queens and new males or drones. During this time the colony works hard in this activity with a view to the exclusive fulfillment of this purpose. The workers look and load sheets, the welded armed with fearsome tweezers, taking care of them.
Future queens and male are exclusive taking care in special room cradles, nursemaids feed them with milk segregated by themselves. These special cares and strange food, who concludes in the wedding ceremony in which the male die in his unique love act of his life, giving to the queen, it has woken the afrodisíac legend give to the culona ants.
Towns as Barichara, Guane, and Mesa de los Santos in Santander Colombia) have been found some families for more than 20 sons from the same father; these familiar chiefs believe about their fertility and longevity to be eating the culonas Ants in all their life.
The Guanes, aborigens of the region for more than 500 years ago ate them as an exquisite food, and they were cultivating them in breeding places. Besides food, they were using them as analgesic applying them in cataplasms in navel and temples. They toasted them in fire on flowerpots of mud and kept them as a food for years in special calabacinos.
Nowadays, they still process the culonas as 5 hundred years. When the towns smell to the toasted ant frangances,it does people in the region say: CULONAS ARE BEING ROASTED!
Smell of culona ants: maiden sex smell that wake up the senses; reminiscence of loving rituals fragrances of any lover that want itself.
