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[ExponentMars]

Had to cops called on me cuz i was in the bushes with my Aspirator, cops came and told me to get out and i straight up told them that whoever called them is a karen and if you think a pill bottle full of ant queens is drugs your gravely mistaken. they just looked at me funny and told me to get on the wall and searched me (of course all they found was a couple bottles of queens and brood for brood boosting) they just kept looking at me weird like i was this weird teenager doing kindergarden things, was hella Awkward, soon enough i found out who called the cops on me cuz they started to come out of there house bothering me. SSSSOOOOO i did something real evil cuz screw that karen (at this time i had 23 colonies of just Solonopsis and Tetras that i couldn't take care of anymore cuz all of them were reaching the thousands and thousands) anyways guess what i did? I'm sure you know what i did, i released all 23 colonies in her back and front yard soon enough she kept calling pest control but they never went away. i haven't heard from this karen in awhile now all i know is that house still mega infested, serves her right for calling the cops on me and putting me in a awkward situation, and then doing nothing but bother me. funny revenge story.

Sweet SWEET revenge > 

[ExponentMars]

When I was in 5th grade, there was a MASSIVE nuptial flight of RIFA right in the playground. I got out some test tubes and started to catch them en masse, planning to start multiple polygynous colonies of RIFA. This group of annoying girls saw me doing this, and they said - "HEY! RELEASE THOSE ANTS!! You're going to kill them!" I tried explaining to them that catching them and putting them in polygynous test tube setups would give them a FAR greater chance of success than if they were in the wild, but they didn't believe me. When I refused to release the ants, they told a teacher and then the teacher made me release them. So stupid 

[Chickalo]

When I was in 5th grade, there was a MASSIVE nuptial flight of RIFA right in the playground. I got out some test tubes and started to catch them en masse, planning to start multiple polygynous colonies of RIFA. This group of annoying girls saw me doing this, and they said - "HEY! RELEASE THOSE ANTS!! You're going to kill them!" I tried explaining to them that catching them and putting them in polygynous test tube setups would give them a FAR greater chance of success than if they were in the wild, but they didn't believe me. When I refused to release the ants, they told a teacher and then the teacher made me release them. So stupid 

This is when you release the colonies into their yards for revenge, right?  ...  Right?

[azzaaazzzz00]

Ok, so two stories, first one happened like a year ago and the second one happened this spring.

 

1. I really wanted to catch (and not buy) a crematogaster queen, so I was on the look for them when my anting buddy (my brother) came to me and was like: what kind of ants are these? They look like Crematogaster queens...sadly their dead, welp guess that's a part of anting. Me: *dies*

 

2. I was on the look for queen ants as usual, I found a Solenopsis Molesta queen, but she ran into the pile of bricks next to my house. Then, out of nowhere, my neighbor comes out and sees me knealing on the ground chucking bricks everywhere. I froze, realizing I must look like a frantic phycopath, he goes back in looking confused and I continue my brick throwing rampage. Good news is that I did end up catching the queen. Later, my neighbor came to my door and asked me what I was doing...My Brain:*shuts down*. Me: uhhhhhhhh...I dropped my watch! Yea...I was looking for my watch....He finally goes away, whew, I was so close to slamming that door on him.

[Chickalo]

I'd like to imagine the conversation after that went something like:
"How did your watch fall into that tiny hole?"
"Oh you know...  Gravity and sh*t"
"Oh-?  Well, did you end up getting it"

"Yeah, definitely"
"Can I see it?"
"NO- well, I have to do...  Homework?  Yeah, that sounds right, goodbye!"

 

Friendly neighbour 100

[azzaaazzzz00]

Exactly, spot on (glad he didn't question how the "watch" ended up at the very bottom of that brick pile)

Edited by azzaaazzzz00, November 17 2021 - 1:22 PM.

[ANTS_KL]

When I was in 5th grade, there was a MASSIVE nuptial flight of RIFA right in the playground. I got out some test tubes and started to catch them en masse, planning to start multiple polygynous colonies of RIFA. This group of annoying girls saw me doing this, and they said - "HEY! RELEASE THOSE ANTS!! You're going to kill them!" I tried explaining to them that catching them and putting them in polygynous test tube setups would give them a FAR greater chance of success than if they were in the wild, but they didn't believe me. When I refused to release the ants, they told a teacher and then the teacher made me release them. So stupid

You should've explained to the teacher. Kids that don't listen to someone clearly better than them have like 0 braincells.

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[SYUTEO]

I had half of my test tubes broken by my youngest second cousin last night... And one of them rolled into a drain and I had to get it back...bare handed...  I lost a Camponotus queen because of it...

[ANTS_KL]

I had half of my test tubes broken by my youngest second cousin last night... And one of them rolled into a drain and I had to get it back...bare handed... I lost a Camponotus queen because of it...

Lock him in a closet for 3 weeks with only 1 grain of bread a day and no water

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[SYUTEO]

 

I had half of my test tubes broken by my youngest second cousin last night... And one of them rolled into a drain and I had to get it back...bare handed... I lost a Camponotus queen because of it...

Lock him in a closet for 3 weeks with only 1 grain of bread a day and no water

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Woah, chill out. She's only one and a half years old.

[ANTS_KL]

I had half of my test tubes broken by my youngest second cousin last night... And one of them rolled into a drain and I had to get it back...bare handed... I lost a Camponotus queen because of it...

Lock him in a closet for 3 weeks with only 1 grain of bread a day and no water

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Woah, chill out. She's only one and a half years old.

Don't do that. Slap her foot instead.

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[Leptomyrmx]

So today there was a Nylanderia cf. rosae nuptial flight happening at my school, and there's quite a few queens around the place, and I'm hoping to catch some to add to my massive army of Nylanderia. So I bend down to catch one of the queens, and one person comes over to me and asks 'what are you doing?' I say I'm collecting a queen ant, antkeeping is my hobby, etc. Luckily they were fine with that and didn't say 'O nOe YoUr HeRtiNg NaTiV AmiNaLsEs ToO KiLL DeM!11!!1!!' I'm still trying to catch this one queen, and more people come over to watch and try and help, aaaand the bell rings and I only manage to catch one queen.

[ANTS_KL]

So today there was a Nylanderia cf. rosae nuptial flight happening at my school, and there's quite a few queens around the place, and I'm hoping to catch some to add to my massive army of Nylanderia. So I bend down to catch one of the queens, and one person comes over to me and asks 'what are you doing?' I say I'm collecting a queen ant, antkeeping is my hobby, etc. Luckily they were fine with that and didn't say 'O nOe YoUr HeRtiNg NaTiV AmiNaLsEs ToO KiLL DeM!11!!1!!' I'm still trying to catch this one queen, and more people come over to watch and try and help, aaaand the bell rings and I only manage to catch one queen.

sad. Anyway not a story of mine but a story from my dad (he catches queens for me and somehow he can tell them apart despite me never telling him). So one day he woke up while me, my sister, and my mom were on a holiday at Mentakab (again after like 3 weeks). And he went into the toilet to shower before going to work. So, after that he sees a massive thing walking around and he's like 'Woah what is this? Looks like a huge ant' and captures it. And he sent me some pics on WhatsApp. From those blurry pics I deduced it was some Camponotus species. AND UPON MY RETURN, I AM GREETED WITH A 3 CM LONG DINOMYRMEX GIGAS QUEEN. At that point I was screaming in shock and with joy. And that's it. My dads very interesting find in the toilet.

[Idontexist]

Back in my early days of ant keeping. (i didn't do any research) i was an idiot. I owned a super [censored] settup. It was a water bottle filled with paper. It had only workers. And guess what? Both from different species. and when reddit gave me advice i just took a "queen" (just any replete) and called it a day. Guess how they died.
Back in my early days of ant keeping. (i didn't do any research) i was an idiot. I owned a super [censored] settup. It was a water bottle filled with paper. It had only workers. And guess what? Both from different species. and when reddit gave me advice i just took a "queen" (just any replete) and called it a day. Guess how they died.
Back in my early days of ant keeping. (i didn't do any research) i was an idiot. I owned a super [censored] settup. It was a water bottle filled with paper. It had only workers. And guess what? Both from different species. and when reddit gave me advice i just took a "queen" (just any replete) and called it a day. Guess how they died.

[Idontexist]

i hope they are bitten by the ant with the most painful sting in VA! and then get bitten by Eciton!

Yeah, the elusive Eciton virginiana.

I live in campeche mexico


Guess what antwiki says about eciton burchellii distribution

i hope they are bitten by the ant with the most painful sting in VA! and then get bitten by Eciton!

Yeah, the elusive Eciton virginiana.

I live in campeche mexico


Guess what antwiki says about eciton burchellii distribution

[Idontexist]

Ahaha I just remembered this one. I had just started the ant keeping hobby, and was looking for my first queen ant. I ended up finding a Preno queen at my school (This was when I was in elementary school lol). I was about to catch it but the teacher walked outside and was like, "Leave that ant alone!"
I was like, ok and I stepped away but I was still watching the queen. The teacher said that I couldn't bring the queen into the classroom, and I didn't have any containers outside, so this other person in my class gave me a pencil sharpener to put the queen in, like the ones with the bottom where the pencil scraps fall into.
So I put the queen into the pencil sharpener and went into class. At the end of the day, the teacher saw me with the queen (inside class) and I got a note sent home to my parents lmao
I had to release the queen tho

that happened to me but abit different, when i was getting into ant keeping, and when my family went over to see my cousins in the neighbouring town, there was a P. imparis queen, so i went inside to grab something to put her in, and when i came out she was smoshed by my aunts shoe

i hate your aunt lol

[Idontexist]

This was before I was into keeping ants so it is embarrassing looking back, but my brothers, my neighbor, and I were in the middle of a nuptial flight on my neighbor's driveway. We started burning queens with a lighter and drowning them in wasp spray

chill out man we have all killed ants for fun before.

[Idontexist]

When I was in 5th grade, there was a MASSIVE nuptial flight of RIFA right in the playground. I got out some test tubes and started to catch them en masse, planning to start multiple polygynous colonies of RIFA. This group of annoying girls saw me doing this, and they said - "HEY! RELEASE THOSE ANTS!! You're going to kill them!" I tried explaining to them that catching them and putting them in polygynous test tube setups would give them a FAR greater chance of success than if they were in the wild, but they didn't believe me. When I refused to release the ants, they told a teacher and then the teacher made me release them. So stupid

send those girls to peter gerard scully's house lol. I am mad

[Manitobant]

Please stop spamming threads. Also stop being so impatient, if the post won’t load, don’t click the button again and just refresh the page. It’ll show up then.

[Idontexist]

Sorry

Edited by Idontexist, February 2 2022 - 8:25 AM.