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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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“The vortex of ants… is a circular mill where a group of ants (sometimes hundreds to millions of ants) get separated from the main swarm and ended up following each other’s scent in a circle. It’s called the death spiral because they continue to go in circles until they’re exhausted and die.”
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Thunderhorse
Title: This is DELICIOUS!
Joined: Dec 29 2009
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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I would be scared as hell if that happened on my property. I really hate ants, and I would think that when they all gathered like that, it would be bad news. I'd think they were forming Super Ant or something.
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chazzlabs
Joined: Dec 28 2009
Location: New Jersey
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Wow, that's pretty disgusting but incredibly interesting at the same time.
I was watching a special on one of those fancy thinkin' channels (History or Discovery or something, can't remember which) about ants that live in villages on farms and attack and eat rodents and other pests, thus becoming essential to the humans who live on the farms. Unfortunately, sometimes the ants will make their way into the villagers' homes and attack the villagers. But the villagers don't die from hundreds of ant bites; they suffocate when the ants crawl into their lungs.
Bugs are creepy. :\
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
Joined: Apr 29 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 2450
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It looks like an Ant Hurricane. Would seriously freak me out to walk outside and find that.
Wonder what would happen if you dropped a rock in the middle? Would they all just haul ass and scatter?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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It looks like an Ant Hurricane. Would seriously freak me out to walk outside and find that.
Wonder what would happen if you dropped a rock in the middle? Would they all just haul ass and scatter? |
I'd more likely try to burn them all with gasoline.
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
Joined: Apr 29 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Maybe throw a lizard in it and see what happens.
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Sarge
Title: The Self-Titler
Joined: Aug 14 2010
Posts: 598
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Ask MacGyver, he knows how to deal with ants. Charlton Heston, too.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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| chazzlabs wrote: |
Wow, that's pretty disgusting but incredibly interesting at the same time.
I was watching a special on one of those fancy thinkin' channels (History or Discovery or something, can't remember which) about ants that live in villages on farms and attack and eat rodents and other pests, thus becoming essential to the humans who live on the farms. Unfortunately, sometimes the ants will make their way into the villagers' homes and attack the villagers. But the villagers don't die from hundreds of ant bites; they suffocate when the ants crawl into their lungs.
Bugs are creepy. :\ |
I believe those are driver ants. They can take down a bird
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AtmanRyu
Title: The Wandering Dragon
Joined: Jun 25 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Crazy, an antnado! Ants are badass, I saw a documentary where they had this lab testing all their physical attributes, fuckers were walking upside down on glass holding some insane multiplied amount of their mass while a giant ass fan was trying to blow them off. They also had footage of an ant colony absolutely destroying a bee hive.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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I wonder what would happen if you set that on fire, would they keep circling? Would the run around all over the place? Would you hear a million tiny little screams?
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