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Goons Are Great posted:Unless if you're Australian, in which case your native ants are most likely aliens from another world, because holy drat what you Aussies got down there is beyond imagination. I don't know exactly what sorts of ants you have over there, but the two that come to mind here are hopper ants and inch ants. Hopper ants aren't content to try and crawl onto your shoes and up your leg. They will climb to the top of stalks of grass and lie in wait, then leap up onto your knees and start stinging away. The venom isn't actually that bad, except that it tends to provoke a strong immune response that can scale all the way up to anaphylaxis and death in sensitive individuals. Inch ants are named that because they are bloody massive. Particularly venomous for an ant, though still only really comparable to a bee sting. Unlike hopper ants they often like to try to maul things with their bigass mandibles rather than necessarily try to sting, which in my opinion makes them somewhat preferable.
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Is there a greater biomass of ants or beetles in the world?
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Jul 17, 2020 00:29
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How do monogynious colonies go about founding new colonies? Does the newborn queen lay her own escort, or does she take a tithe of her mother's workers?
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Jul 18, 2020 14:08
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In nests constructed for observation are there frequencies that they can't see that you can use to illuminate and watch them without them freaking out? Or do you just tend to look for brief periods before closing over the glass again?
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Jul 20, 2020 12:44
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Will a young queen ever move into an old abandoned nest as being a convenient already-dug-out location?
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Jul 24, 2020 06:25
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Goons Are Great posted:
So what you're telling me is that Starship Troopers was 100% accurate.
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Aug 28, 2020 03:55
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How long is the longest ants will usually be away from the nest for when exploring/foraging?
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Sep 16, 2020 11:36
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Raenir Salazar posted:This reminds me how we cultivated spicy foods for eating despite the fact that the spiceness was an evolutionary adaptation meant to protect these plants from predators! And now huge numbers of these plants are growing all over the world. It worked!
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Oct 18, 2020 00:55
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The way I visualise it is that each individual ant is a transistor, knowing only the state of its neighbours and possessing zero decision-making capability. But put enough transistors together and you can run complex decision-making algorithms on them. Zoom in and everything looks random and confusing (and it is). Zoom out and behaviour starts making intuitive sense to us.
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Feb 17, 2021 07:18
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I was in limestone country the other day, and was looking at an anthill directly above a cave. Most of the anthill was regular spoil, but around each entrance was a pinch of bright white sand. Were the ants actually chewing through the limestone to expand their hill?
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Apr 7, 2021 06:13
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But if a colony needs protein and is fine on energy, surely the aphids must start looking tasty.
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Jun 8, 2021 05:39
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Goons Are Great posted:proteins are exclusively needed for larvae growth and queen egg production Do ants just... not perform tissue repair? Any individual ant runs until it wears out then gets replaced?
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Jun 8, 2021 10:02
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Ghouls are Ghastly posted:You just do the same thing everyone else is doing and by simple logic and math you will automatically do the right thing over time. On the basis that the ants doing stupid things probably die and are not available to be copied?
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Don't they use their saliva or something to create a crust?
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