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Now this is one tough bug!

Started By ConcordAntman , Oct 23 2020 4:33 AM

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#1 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted October 23 2020 - 4:33 AM

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Sure, some ants can lift anywhere from 10-100 times their body mass but can they stand up to a car?!?

https://nyti.ms/37rC4Qp


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#2 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 23 2020 - 4:36 AM

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:blink:  :blink:  :blink:


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We don’t talk about that

#3 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted October 23 2020 - 8:18 AM

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:o  :o  :o is correct! that is absolutely stunning!


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#4 Offline ZTYguy - Posted October 23 2020 - 8:58 AM

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That is so amazing. Its like bug superman.


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#5 Offline TestSubjectOne - Posted October 23 2020 - 9:26 AM

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I had one that looked exactly like this living on the outside of my windowsill for a few weeks recently. I assume it was feeding on fungal growth from the pine wood, although the wood was dry and has no visible fungus.


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TestSubjectOne's Experiences in Antkeeping General Journal

 

Currently Keeping:

- Veromessor pergandei (1 queen, 600 workers)

- Novomessor cockerelli (1 queen, 200 workers)

- Myrmecocystus mexicanus (1 queen, 100 workers)

- Brachymyrmex patagonicus (3 queens?, 2,000 workers? & alates)

- Crematogaster sp. (1 queen, 600 workers)

- Liometopum occidentale (1 queen, 800 workers)

- Camponotus absqualator (1 queen, 130 workers)

#6 Offline Manitobant - Posted October 23 2020 - 10:47 AM

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Article has a paywall.
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/

#7 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted October 23 2020 - 10:57 AM

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Article has a paywall.

Sorry, maybe you can access it through a library. 


#8 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted October 23 2020 - 12:43 PM

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Wow, really amazing. For those stuck behind the wall who want to look it up, it's a bumpy black beetle by the name of Phloeodes diabolicus.

I remember my first introduction to scary bugs: a tick. I remember trying to squash it with my shoe on a tile floor. Repeatedly. Over and over. Nothing worked.

This is when I understood why you're supposed to stick it in a jar of alcohol or freeze it or something... stepping on it doesn't work.

A car is a whole 'nother level of squishproof....


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Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

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#9 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 23 2020 - 1:01 PM

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Hmm very tick I’ve seen I can crush with my hand or foot but we have all kinds of wildlife over here.
We don’t talk about that

#10 Offline M_Ants - Posted October 23 2020 - 2:13 PM

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So I have an insect collection and one time I tried to pin one of these...I think I ended up hammering the pin in somehow because it was so tough. 


Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

C. yogi 

https://www.youtube....FG7utFVBA/about

#11 Offline ponerinecat - Posted October 23 2020 - 2:49 PM

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So I have an insect collection and one time I tried to pin one of these...I think I ended up hammering the pin in somehow because it was so tough. 

Entomologists drill through the carapace when pinning these. I've been seeing this article pop up everywhere, wonder why. The info that they can withstand a car has been known for quite some time. Anyways, heres some I found in the valley. They really do look like little armored vehicles.

 

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Another little tidbit of info; they can bite and clamp on pretty hard once they do. I had to rip the beetle I was testing with off my finger. Although I'm not sure why they even bother biting, they're so slow and clumsy I had to actively rub the beetle against a fold in my skin to get it to bite, and all the while it never moved or tried to resist.

 

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#12 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted October 23 2020 - 6:23 PM

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:o Don't get 'em mad at you. If they gang up on you I'm not sure that even a tank could save you! :lol: (BTW great close ups. What kind of lens?)


#13 Offline ponerinecat - Posted October 24 2020 - 10:04 AM

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AF-S Nikkor 18-55 mm kit lens.


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#14 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted October 24 2020 - 11:08 AM

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ooo i used to keep these! diabolical ironclad beetle! bugs in cyberspace.com had them for sale a few months ago

they are very hard lol


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