# Experiment: does the queen know the entire terrarium’s climate?

Objective: distinguish local observation, memory and forecasting, separating air
humidity from soil water. Suggested duration: 10–15 minutes. Initial guide without
teacher review; this is not educational validation.

1. Preserve your terrarium in a named checkpoint. Select **Microclimate · local
   choice · v1** for the next terrarium.
2. Set air humidity to 52%, light to 68% and air temperature to 24 °C. Start seed
   **CAMARA-52-68**. This profile retains those values, without converting light to temperature.
3. Use 1× or 3× to observe flight and probing before digging. Follow the queen
   through the selector and first-person camera. Record sample count and the
   last pore-water/temperature reading.
4. Save a checkpoint after probing and before rain. Make it rain, advance several
   model days and observe water map, brood and food. Do not assume an immediate
   response throughout the soil depth.
5. Restore that checkpoint and advance the same number of days without rain.
   Compare outcomes; the intervention changes several processes, and this study
   alone does not isolate a real biological cause.
6. Export data or preserve named points from both runs. Restore your initial
   terrarium when finished.

Questions: does 52% air humidity mean 52% pore water? Did the queen know unvisited
chambers? Does a reasonable surface location guarantee future chamber climate?
Does the same seed with the same interventions reproduce the model?

Expected answers: no; readings use different quantities. Probing is shallow and
memory contains occupied places; nurses compare recently visited chambers.
Future climate depends on dynamics and geometry, without guarantees. Repeating
conditions and times reproduces the deterministic run; it does not establish
fidelity to nature.

Limits: abstract geometric units, accelerated clock, demonstration preferences,
no separate relative humidity per chamber, and stock still aggregated in this
v1 profile. No value here defines a natural optimum or guarantees survival.
See [local choice and biological limits](../modelo/submodelos.html).