@LillyPip isn't it cool!
But if that was a TIL for you, just wait until you hear about how Ants have hospitals!
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Ant hills can also have any infestations, as in a smaller species of ants (often thief ants) stealing the resources of the bigger ants.
@Tessellecta yes! And there are also ants who steal the children of other species of ant and enslave them.
Ants are so interesting.
This is so frickin' cool. I've been learning the occasional interesting fact about ants for nigh on 30 years and here I am, still finding out cool things about these amazing little creatures.
@Transcendant I know, me too! I've been a fan of them ever since I was a kid but I still find out more stuff every now and again.
Yeah, although we generally don't drink what comes out of a cow's ass.
Right, just its tits
What would you rather suck on, a tit or an ass?
Dont ask me that question
That depends, is it a bugs tit? Or a mammals ass?
Because sugar comes out of bug ass, which is far different than mammal ass. And bug tit is a useless endeavor, unlike the mammal.
I'm pretty sure bugs don't have tits...
All the more a waste of time to suckle
Reminds me of A Bug's Life
There are two wolves in this comment section.
One says: Animals are so cool!
The other one is like: But people are superior!
This is backwards. The aphids hire the ants as bodyguards.
Dealing with this is so annoying. Not because it’s difficult to handle, though it is, but because I have to exterminate multiple Argentine ant colonies in rapid succession despite loving ants. Please just let me garden in peace, ants. :(
Ugh after having them come into my house once... I feel you. I love you, little ant bros, just not in my house!
Could you give them something that doesn’t harm the plants, that might lure them where they won’t bother you, and that won’t make the problem worse in a different way?
Maybe they’d like something you normally throw away in relatively small quantities that won’t attract something worse or poison anything?
e: disclaimer: IANAG. I am terrible with plants.
Argentine ants are altogether too numerous to meaningfully distract or redirect for long. If there’s a new ____ source, they’ll find a way to dive in and then produce a sister colony like 40 feet away. My options amount to either spreading poison, thereby killing a non-negligible sum of rabbits and neighborhood dogs, or killing the ants. I can always grow poisonous or undesirable veggies, but I can only take so many years of mustard, parsley, garlic, and tomatoes.
Reminds me of "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky that I am reading now
Brings back ancient memories of the movie Ant Bully
What the hell is this title? Isn't the whole article describing the ant-aphid relationship while emphatizing that we can't really compare it in human terms?