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What do people think about your hobby?

Started By AntaholicAnonymous , Mar 6 2020 12:04 AM

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#41 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 9 2020 - 1:18 PM

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This literally happened today at Petsmart! I bought a mini heat mat and got asked what I keep. I think I blew the girl’s mind.
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#42 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 9 2020 - 2:07 PM

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:lol:Funny!


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#43 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 9 2020 - 2:12 PM

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This literally happened today at Petsmart! I bought a mini heat mat and got asked what I keep. I think I blew the girl’s mind.

The girl who helped me was chatting with some customers ahead of us (which took forever). She was describing her pets. She had reptiles, fish, etc. in multitudes, apparently.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#44 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 9 2020 - 2:15 PM

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People and the their animals/insects   :facepalm:  :lol:


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#45 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 9 2020 - 5:23 PM

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I tend not to tell people. Only my closest of friends know. Most of my Family doesn't even know. I stopped telling people because when I woudl say I have a whole extra room in my house that is just full of ant colonies they seem to think I have a bunch of uncle milton setups everywhere or something. So I don't care to waste the time explaining the difference between what I do and the uncle milton stuff. Especially since its not like they end up being at all interested. There are exceptions though, if I meet someone that expressly shows interest in nature or insects in general. But that's far and few between.

Same here. When people at the pet store ask what I have at home, I just make up some excuse.

 

Really? There are literally like 5 people at the pet store that now know i have an ant colony. Just ask them, AntsDakota, and they would remember me :D(pretty hard not to remember someone who keeps ants)


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#46 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 9 2020 - 5:24 PM

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This literally happened today at Petsmart! I bought a mini heat mat and got asked what I keep. I think I blew the girl’s mind.

The girl who helped me was chatting with some customers ahead of us (which took forever). She was describing her pets. She had reptiles, fish, etc. in multitudes, apparently.

 

Someone at that store had 9 aquariums, ranging from 5-190 gallons.


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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

My South Dakotan Shop Here

Attention Ant-Keepers in South Dakota! Join the SoDak(Society Of Dakotan Ant Keepers)

#47 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 9 2020 - 5:24 PM

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That’s a lot!


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#48 Offline ponerinecat - Posted March 9 2020 - 5:50 PM

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I tend not to tell people. Only my closest of friends know. Most of my Family doesn't even know. I stopped telling people because when I woudl say I have a whole extra room in my house that is just full of ant colonies they seem to think I have a bunch of uncle milton setups everywhere or something. So I don't care to waste the time explaining the difference between what I do and the uncle milton stuff. Especially since its not like they end up being at all interested. There are exceptions though, if I meet someone that expressly shows interest in nature or insects in general. But that's far and few between.

Same here. When people at the pet store ask what I have at home, I just make up some excuse.

 

Really? There are literally like 5 people at the pet store that now know i have an ant colony. Just ask them, AntsDakota, and they would remember me :D(pretty hard not to remember someone who keeps ants)

 

Your real name is AntsDakota? Or are you faking your information?


#49 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 10 2020 - 4:23 AM

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I tend not to tell people. Only my closest of friends know. Most of my Family doesn't even know. I stopped telling people because when I woudl say I have a whole extra room in my house that is just full of ant colonies they seem to think I have a bunch of uncle milton setups everywhere or something. So I don't care to waste the time explaining the difference between what I do and the uncle milton stuff. Especially since its not like they end up being at all interested. There are exceptions though, if I meet someone that expressly shows interest in nature or insects in general. But that's far and few between.

Same here. When people at the pet store ask what I have at home, I just make up some excuse.

 

Really? There are literally like 5 people at the pet store that now know i have an ant colony. Just ask them, AntsDakota, and they would remember me :D(pretty hard not to remember someone who keeps ants)

 

Your real name is AntsDakota? Or are you faking your information?

 

No, that is not his real name.


Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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Attention Ant-Keepers in South Dakota! Join the SoDak(Society Of Dakotan Ant Keepers)

#50 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 10 2020 - 9:20 AM

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I think one phrase sums this up pretty well: I'm single for a reason :ugone2far:

Every girlfriend I've ever had has left me because of my interests. They just don't understand...
imagine having girlfriends
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#51 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 10 2020 - 9:36 AM

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Hahaha :lol: Well, I am not aloud to have a girlfriend yet, two more years...

I think it is just like having a BFF, but evan better friends than that :)


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#52 Offline BugFinder - Posted March 10 2020 - 12:33 PM

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My kids love the ants - no one else seems to care except fellow ant keepers.


“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.”  ― Matshona Dhliwayo

 

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#53 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 10 2020 - 12:34 PM

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It’d be nice to find a girlfriend at an entomology class, if one decided to take one.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#54 Offline BugFinder - Posted March 10 2020 - 12:34 PM

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This literally happened today at Petsmart! I bought a mini heat mat and got asked what I keep. I think I blew the girl’s mind.

The girl who helped me was chatting with some customers ahead of us (which took forever). She was describing her pets. She had reptiles, fish, etc. in multitudes, apparently.

 

Someone at that store had 9 aquariums, ranging from 5-190 gallons.

 

 

Fish people are like ant people.  They never stop with just one set up lol.


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“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.”  ― Matshona Dhliwayo

 

My Journals:

Pogonomyrmex subdentatus

Camponotus Vicinus

Camponotus sansabeanus

Tetramorium (sp)

Pogonomyrmex Californicus

My Ant Goals!

#55 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 10 2020 - 12:36 PM

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Except aquariums take much more space and maintenance. You can just stick a queen ant in a test tube and leave her be for a few weeks.

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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#56 Offline VenomousBeast - Posted March 10 2020 - 12:44 PM

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I think one phrase sums this up pretty well: I'm single for a reason :ugone2far:

Every girlfriend I've ever had has left me because of my interests. They just don't understand...
imagine having girlfriends

 

Haha, I think it would be interesting, would have to be one freaking committed girl :lol:  (or crazy one) %)


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4: Tetramorium immigrans

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#57 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 10 2020 - 12:47 PM

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Unless she also appreciates arthropods; girls like that would most likely be found in entomology classes, as I said-

It’d be nice to find a girlfriend at an entomology class, if one decided to take one.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#58 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 10 2020 - 2:54 PM

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I had to persuade my father and my mum was absolutely baffled that I could persuade my dad so yeah, there's my scoop


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There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

#59 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 10 2020 - 2:56 PM

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To date?


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#60 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 10 2020 - 3:23 PM

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This conversation is so good i am going to have to like all the posts lol :lol:


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Attention Ant-Keepers in South Dakota! Join the SoDak(Society Of Dakotan Ant Keepers)

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