In my opinion bugs are the best pets. Right now I am keeping two caterpillars in a jar and feeding them parsley and dill and they love it. Soon they will be beautiful butterflies.
I'm not posting this just to brag about my caterpillars though. I'm posting because my room has been infested by ants. It happened after I left a bunch of food sitting at my desk. For the past few days I've been feeding them things like chips, soda, peanut butter, and bread crumbs. They seem to enjoy feasting at my desk, and I enjoy their company. However, I have recently have been concerned that they may cause damage to my house. Will they be ruining my floor and walls by tunneling in them? Is there a chance they will crawl inside my laptop and cause serious damage?
I know it was irresponsible to get a pet without knowing how to care for it, but please teach me about ants.
Guys, I left some heroine out and now there's some homeless people wandering around my apartment. I've been feeding them whiskey and fast food wrappers. Can they get into my computer and damage it?
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edited July 2008
ants love to carry you off
think about it
enough ants could totally take you away into a hole and devour your innards
Guys, I left some heroine out and now there's some homeless people wandering around my apartment. I've been feeding them whiskey and fast food wrappers. Can they get into my computer and damage it?
Guys, I left some heroine out and now there's some homeless people wandering around my apartment. I've been feeding them whiskey and fast food wrappers. Can they get into my computer and damage it?
Man my mom is going to flip when she sees I have pet ants. She's going to be like "TREELOOT WHAT HAVE YOU DONE."
How can I convince her to let me keep them?
Why don't you buy an antfarm?
And why does your mom call you treeloot?
Ant farms are kind of expensive too, and I don't have a lot of money to spend on luxury items right now. I'm saving up for a big screen TV to take to college.
To answer your second question my mom doesn't actually call me Treeloot. I just didn't want to give out my real name. But since you're curious it is William, but I go by Billy.
Polyergus, or Legionnaire ant, is a small genus of 6 described species (and several possible undescribed species) of "slave-raiding" ants, sometimes called Amazon ants. Its workers are incapable of caring for brood, in part due to their dagger-like, piercing mandibles, but more importantly, because in the evolution of their parasitism, they have lost the "behavioral wiring" to carry out even rudimentary brood care, or even to feed themselves. Polyergus species subsist as social parasites, maintaining a worker force by capturing ants of the closely related genus Formica in massive colony-to-colony raids. Until recently, the Formica workers that live with Polyergus have been referred to, unquestioningly, as "slaves". The situation under which the Formica workers live in a Polyergus nest is more comparable to that of domesticated and spayed work animals, so it may be preferable to simply refer to the two species in this relationship as parasite and host, raider and help-ants, or some other more appropriate terms.
Polyergus obtains its Formica work force by stealing pupae from nearby Formica colonies and carrying them back to their own nest, by means of spectacular raids, conducted on hot, summer afternoons. Back in the Polyergus nest, Formica workers are eventually helped to emerge from the cocoons by Formica workers already living there. The new workers quickly assimilate the characteristic odor of the mixed-species population of the Polyergus colony -- completely without violence or coercion. The newly hatched "slaves" go on to nurse, forage, and perform other colony upkeep duties. As far as is known, all established Polyergus colonies have only one queen. To found a new colony, a lone Polyergus queen invades a nest of the host species, or encounters and moves in with a colony-founding queen of the host species. In the latter case, the host queen is allowed to survive until she has reared a number of host workers, something the Polyergus queen cannot do herself. A young Polyergus queen ultimately kills the existing Formica queen (right away if workers present, later if these are not yet reared) and becomes accepted by the Formica workers. These proceed to rear the first and all subsequent Amazon ant workers. Clearly, this complicated and lengthy process often fails, as Polyergus colonies are relatively rare, even though each mature colony produces dozens or hundreds of new potential queens each year. To counteract the natural mortality of the Formica worker population, Polyergus workers must conduct regular raids over a 6-8 week period, every summer over the 10-15 year life span of their colony.
The raids of Amazon ants have been sensationalized as "blood baths" in popular writing. However, scientific study has demonstrated repeatedly and for all species that their brood stealing raids are highly efficient and virtually non-violent. It is rare for even a single member of the raided host colony to be injured or killed. Instead, the host colony is overwhelmed, apparently by its own formic acid and alarm pheromones produced in the panic, when the marauders enter their nest en masse. Commonly, the queen and workers of the raided Formica colony evacuate up nearby vegetation and simply "wait for the problem to go away" while the Polyergus workers find and run off with their brood.
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Hold on for a second I have youtube videos to prove my point.
Kill them.
What is wrong with you?
Watch out. They may crawl up on your bed and into your ear as you sleep.
And that's the worst.
I'm sure they serve a purpose, but fuck them.
Also, mosquitos.
think about it
enough ants could totally take you away into a hole and devour your innards
I am laughing.
A lot.
Thank you, sir.
Add to this bees.
Am I a retard for being a little confused at the scale there when I first saw that?
Ants love nothing better than lung meat.
tWallhitter: Fun fact, that criminal is the supervillain TinyHead.
Altho honestly, those are the biggest fucking ants ever, just look at the ones in the background on the dresser. They're fucking huge!
But bees don't fuck with you much if you don't fuck with them.
Ants just bust in when you're not looking because you spilled some soda somewhere a month ago and they claim the whole area as their own.
Bees would be a tight pet.
So you're saying there was a point at which you ceased being confused by the scale?
No, thank you graves.
How can I convince her to let me keep them?
Why don't you buy an antfarm?
And why does your mom call you treeloot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQhtTfrdS8&fmt=18
you spinnin falsehoods
THIS
THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU
RUN WHILE YOU CAN
SO COOL
not any of that powdered shit
but the gel
put them around where you're getting the fuckin' ants so watch where they're comin from
and then refill the tubes
they should die off pretty quick
Ant farms are kind of expensive too, and I don't have a lot of money to spend on luxury items right now. I'm saving up for a big screen TV to take to college.
To answer your second question my mom doesn't actually call me Treeloot. I just didn't want to give out my real name. But since you're curious it is William, but I go by Billy.
OH GOD
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R3Mt2E1M6dU
Knowing the OP that's probably his fetish.
all lying on the ground, ants crawling over his decaying scrotum.
wishing from the afterlife that he still had feeling in his body.
this would be horrible crossover with the anti-rotica thread
ARE THEY TAKING HIS SKULL FOR THE QUEEN'S SKULL THRONE
but I'm like you cut that shit out
that is not ok ants
and they're all sorry geez