I just wanted to basicly mention that I got a challenge from some of the ant keepers in my town to remember ever ant species in the world in one year, probably going to fail but why not try.
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Posted November 17 2021 - 1:17 PM
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Posted November 17 2021 - 2:10 PM
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Do you mean memorize?
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Posted November 17 2021 - 2:29 PM
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Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
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Posted November 17 2021 - 4:25 PM
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Tell your friends it’s impossible because all the species of ants haven’t been identified yet. Many will go extinct before we describe them.
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Tell your friends it’s impossible because all the species of ants haven’t been identified yet. Many will go extinct before we describe them.
Unfortunately with something like insects that is true. We will never know the exact number of species since many go extinct before we discover them and many will take its place. Its just a (sort of) infinite cycle of evolution.
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Posted November 17 2021 - 4:54 PM
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antwiki says there are 15,927 species of ants currently described and 152 described just this year. I would consider that impossible. You would probably get more use and have a more feasible challenge to remember the ants in your area and even that can be a pain from taxonomic changes. In the few years I've cared about ants I've seen the most common ants get changes. In the US Tetramorium caespitum became Tetramorium sp. E. Then changed again to T.immigrans. Formica fusca became F.subaenescens. ect.
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Posted November 18 2021 - 10:29 AM
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Oh they meant the ones that I can find online and stuff, just going to try to remember as many as possible, never going to be able to remember em all.
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Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
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Oh they meant the ones that I can find online and stuff, just going to try to remember as many as possible, never going to be able to remember em all.
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Get an earpiece, and have someone list off the ants one by one from the list of all described species as you repeat the names to your shocked friends
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Get an earpiece, and have someone list off the ants one by one from the list of all described species as you repeat the names to your shocked friends
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Posted November 20 2021 - 12:09 PM
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Chickalo, you are an absolute genius, may the gods bless u 
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Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
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Posted November 22 2021 - 12:20 PM
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Also um, anyone know a reliable up to date website that lists all of species?
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Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
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Also um, anyone know a reliable up to date website that lists all of species?
Such a website literally does not exist.
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Posted November 23 2021 - 6:41 AM
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Been keeping ants since January of 2021
Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.
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