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 Re: Recent observations of ants  [Re: Shroomism]
#17128627 - 10/30/12 02:45 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight with their mandibles.
Ants use their diminutive size to their advantage. Relative to their size, their muscles are thicker than those of larger animals or even humans. This ratio enables them to produce more force and carry larger objects. If we had muscles in the proportions of ants, we'd be able to heave a Hyundai over our heads!
Soldier ants use their heads to plug the entrances to their nests and keep intruders from gaining access.
In certain ant species, the soldier ants have modified heads, shaped to match the nest entrance. They block access to the nest by sitting just inside the entrance, with their heads facing out like a cork in a bottle. When a worker ant returns to the nest, it will touch the soldier ant's head to let the guard know it belongs to the colony.
Ants sometimes herd or tend to insects of other species, like aphids or leafhoppers.
Ants will do just about anything to get the sugary secretions of sap-sucking insects, called honeydew. To keep the sweet stuff in close supply, some ants will herd aphids, carrying the soft-bodied pests from plant to plant. Leafhoppers sometimes take advantage of this nurturing tendency in ants, and leave their young to be raised by the ants. This allows the leafhoppers to go raise another brood.
Certain ant species defend plants in exchange for food and shelter.
Ant plants, or myrmecophytes, are plants with naturally occurring hollows where ants can take shelter or feed. These cavities may be hollow thorns, stems, or even leaf petioles. The ants live in the hollows, feeding on sugary plant secretions or the excretions of sap-sucking insects. What do the plants get for providing such luxurious accommodations? The ants defend the plant from herbivorous mammals and insects, and may even prune away parasitic plants that attempt to grow on the host plant.
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Lol you must live in a trash heap.
Yes, we usually call it the planet earth.
This shit is 18th century, mice are unavoidable.
At least I don't have cockaroaches like you cityrats.
Lol how do you know I live in the city? 
I leave A LOT of food in random places where it eventually gets moldy or rotten. I am extremely messy. To put it in perspective, I have found several green "oranges" (I guess you could call them "Green"'s?) hidden in my backpack over the course of my lifetime. Flies, ants, you name it.
But never once have I had a straight-up mouse anywhere near me or my shit.
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Ants lived alongside the dinosaurs.
Ants evolved some 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period. Most fossil evidence of insects is found in lumps of ancient amber, or fossilized plant resin. The oldest known ant fossil, a primitive and now extinct ant species named Sphercomyrma freyi, was found in Cliffwood Beach, NJ. Though that fossil only dates back 92 million years, another fossil ant that proved nearly as old has a clear lineage to ants of present day. This suggests a much longer evolutionary line than previously thought, leading scientists to estimate the appearance of ants on Earth as somewhere around 130 million years ago.
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Lol how do you know I live in the city?
I leave A LOT of food in random places where it eventually gets moldy or rotten. I am extremely messy. To put it in perspective, I have found several green "oranges" (I guess you could call them "Green"'s?) hidden in my backpack over the course of my lifetime. Flies, ants, you name it.
But never once have I had a straight-up mouse anywhere near me or my shit.
You live in the city or suburbs or else you wouldn't be grossed out by mice. Only urban animals are dirty, countrymice are adorable and not that scary once you've seen a cityrat.
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Ants follow scent trails laid by scout ants to gather food.
By following pheromone trails created by other ants from the colony, foraging ants can gather and store food efficiently. A scout ant first leaves the nest in search of food, and wanders somewhat randomly until it discovers something edible. It will then consume some of the food and return to the nest in a straight, direct line. It seems these scout ants can observe and recall visual cues that enable them to navigate quickly back to the nest. Along the return route, the scout ant leaves a trail of pheromones, special scents that will guide her nestmates to the food. The foraging ants then follow her path, each one adding more scent to the trail to reinforce it for others. The workers will continue walking back and forth along the line until the food source is depleted.
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Lol how do you know I live in the city?
I leave A LOT of food in random places where it eventually gets moldy or rotten. I am extremely messy. To put it in perspective, I have found several green "oranges" (I guess you could call them "Green"'s?) hidden in my backpack over the course of my lifetime. Flies, ants, you name it.
But never once have I had a straight-up mouse anywhere near me or my shit.
You live in the city or suburbs or else you wouldn't be grossed out by mice. Only urban animals are dirty, countrymice are adorable and not that scary once you've seen a cityrat.
Well I've only been living in a city for a year or two.
Before that I lived in the country for quite some time, and never had mice.
Had a shit ton of cockroaches however.
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One ant species owns the record for the fastest movement within the animal kingdom.
The jaws or 'mandibles' of trap jaw ant Odontomachus bauri have been recorded to shut at speeds of 230 km/h or 140 mph. This system can exert forces 300 times its own weight, it can be used to kill or damage prey and in times of danger it can push its head to the ground to fling itself away. Check out the slow motion video below.
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Well I've only been living in a city for a year or two.
Before that I lived in the country for quite some time, and never had mice.
Had a shit ton of cockroaches however.
You live in the south then? I hardly ever see roaches outside of the city, and everybody's got mice in their garages and attic around here unless the house is brand new.
(also - awesome video and facts shroomism)
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All worker, soldier and queen ants are female.
Nearly all the ants you see in the wild are female. Males ants, or drones, don't do any work in the colony, they dont look like ants, and only live for a few months during the nuptial flight seasons. Their one job is to fertilize a princess, after which they die.
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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: Shroomism] 1
#17128659 - 10/30/12 03:03 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Awe, poor guys
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Most ants can survive around 24 hours underwater.
Ants don’t have lungs, they breath through small holes found around their bodies, 'spiracles'. When an ant is drowned in a flood, it may appear to be dead. However, if the water can evaporate and there is enough oxygen flowing through these holes, the ant can miraculously comes back to life.
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Awesome thread.
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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: Shroomism]
#17128723 - 10/30/12 03:40 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Most ants can survive around 24 hours underwater.
Ants don’t have lungs, they breath through small holes found around their bodies, 'spiracles'. When an ant is drowned in a flood, it may appear to be dead. However, if the water can evaporate and there is enough oxygen flowing through these holes, the ant can miraculously comes back to life.
Ants are badass motherfuckers
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Ants worst enemies are not us, but other ants.
Ants from different colonies, even within the same species, treat each other as enemies. Ants use their jaws 'mandibles' to hold the legs or antennae of an enemy ant while nest mates tear the victim apart. The winners may invade the defeated colony and carry off their young for food or for making slaves.
Some wingless ants can perform a controlled glide when free falling.
Some species of wingless ants that live in tropical rain forest canopies use a controlled glide to return to their home tree trunk when they fall from branches. This helps them avoid the dangers of the forest floor and avoid becoming lost. (Canopy ants)
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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: Shroomism]
#17128939 - 10/30/12 05:35 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I hate ants. Got some in my house, gonna lay some poison soon.
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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: Dawks]
#17131616 - 10/30/12 04:05 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ant wars are fun to watch 
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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: schwarg]
#17131753 - 10/30/12 04:34 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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+5  heading your way Shroomism
Awesome facts I never knew about, very interesting stuff.
Here is another crazy ant video
This happens when ants eat a certain kind of spore.
They end up wandering off to higher grounds alone, die & create mushrooms
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Sometimes I wonder if flies can comprehend that I just tried to end their life? I doubt they do 'cause those fuckers always come back and I always get them.... Oh yes... I hate those things so much...
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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: Mafeki]
#17557987 - 01/16/13 04:52 PM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm bumping this thread. I just remembered about it. Fuckin hilarious
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