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Interesting video by BBC Earth

Started By RushmoreAnts , Jun 5 2020 11:34 AM

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#1 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 5 2020 - 11:34 AM

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I just never knew how aggressive Myrmecocystus could be!

https://m.youtube.co...h?v=wGEIfh2t_Jw

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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

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#2 Offline Canadant - Posted June 5 2020 - 3:59 PM

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Awesome cinematography. Could watch docs lime that all day. Thanks.

That colony got its butt kicked though. Gotta toughen up if you want to survive in the wild!

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"You don't get what you want. You get what you deserve".

#3 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted June 6 2020 - 11:32 AM

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Oh I remember watching Empire of the Desert Ants recently. The writer(s)/directors/narrator really chose to portray ants as alien, vicious, nasty things.

Yeah and it was brutal. Though I kind of wonder how they set up the warfare shots and what that says about the humans who set them up. :lol:

Edited by OhNoNotAgain, June 6 2020 - 11:33 AM.

Past & Present

Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive); Lasius sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen

Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa

Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other

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