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What is the weirdest thing you've found while anting?

Started By Manitobant , Apr 24 2019 1:23 PM

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#1 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 24 2019 - 1:23 PM

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This thread is specifically going to be about unlikely objects and things found while anting. Weird circumstances like people watching you is not allowed. This is specifically for things.

I will start: today while digging first year formica colonies I found a condom.
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted April 24 2019 - 2:36 PM

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stop


#3 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 24 2019 - 3:01 PM

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stop

if its about the first year colonies I'm talking about colonies that are literally founding chambers with nanitics
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#4 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 24 2019 - 3:14 PM

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I found an old boot in the woods. And a carburetor.

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#5 Offline Leo - Posted April 24 2019 - 5:15 PM

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I found a turd in the middle of a log. Someone literally dug a hole into the log, then took a dump in it.


#6 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted April 24 2019 - 5:28 PM

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I found an old boot in the woods. And a carburetor.

What is it with forests and carburetors? I see them all the time when hiking.


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#7 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 24 2019 - 5:46 PM

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I found an old boot in the woods. And a carburetor.

What is it with forests and carburetors? I see them all the time when hiking.

People in the country (where I live) hate bringing their old cars to the dump. There must be an entire car in my woods. Tires, mattresses and shotgun shells.

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#8 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted April 25 2019 - 4:51 AM

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There's a lot of junk anywhere I look for ants. In the wooded area next to where I lived in TN there was a bush hogger half way buried in the ground. Sometimes it's convenient though, because Aphaenogaster sometimes nest in empty beer bottles. Talk about an easy catch! :lol:


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#9 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 25 2019 - 7:03 AM

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There's a lot of junk anywhere I look for ants. In the wooded area next to where I lived in TN there was a bush hogger half way buried in the ground. Sometimes it's convenient though, because Aphaenogaster sometimes nest in empty beer bottles. Talk about an easy catch! :lol:


Same thing here.... Camponotus snellingi love empty beer cans.

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#10 Offline LC3 - Posted April 25 2019 - 7:23 AM

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Various chairs (including swivel chairs) that by this point I wouldn’t consider it a weird occurrnce.
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#11 Offline ponerinecat - Posted April 25 2019 - 5:11 PM

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stop

if its about the first year colonies I'm talking about colonies that are literally founding chambers with nanitics

 

Oh, I thought you meant 1-2 year colonies.


#12 Offline ponerinecat - Posted April 25 2019 - 5:13 PM

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Does a mysterious can that had liquid which sloshed and smelled of rotten eggs count?


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