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I question peoples sanity

Started By AntsTopia , Jun 30 2023 5:54 PM

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#1 Offline AntsTopia - Posted June 30 2023 - 5:54 PM

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I’m questioning life by looking at this photo all it brings me in pain. Found it off of Google. 


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Atta Mexicana x 1

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Ants are just better.

#2 Offline AntsTopia - Posted June 30 2023 - 5:57 PM

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Messor Barbarus x 1

 

Ants are just better.

#3 Offline futurebird - Posted June 30 2023 - 9:44 PM

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They have to be pranking us at this point. 


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Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

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If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<. 

#4 Online Ernteameise - Posted July 1 2023 - 1:40 AM

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Sigh.


#5 Offline Virginian_ants - Posted July 1 2023 - 5:55 AM

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I read the article connected to this picture and it was just as messed up. First of it says Atta and Acromymex are the two sub-speices of leaf cutter ants. They also said that workers are males. Also they don't specify information when needed like they made it seem that queens and males will grow wings even when they are adults. This have to have been made by a toddler.
Here is a link ig you want to loss brain cells: https://www.domyown....uide-a-801.html

Edited by Virginian_ants, July 2 2023 - 6:09 AM.

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#6 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted July 1 2023 - 6:16 AM

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This brings me pain.

Edited by AntsCali098, July 1 2023 - 6:17 AM.

Interested buying in ants? Feel free to check out my shop! 

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#7 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 1 2023 - 7:10 AM

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I'm getting a migraine


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#8 Offline gs5248 - Posted July 1 2023 - 9:59 AM

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I am going insane


#9 Offline Barristan - Posted July 1 2023 - 10:13 AM

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Do you have a source, is that even real? ;)


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#10 Online Ernteameise - Posted July 2 2023 - 12:24 AM

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Well, there is also that:

 

https://www.teepubli...cB&gclsrc=aw.ds


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#11 Offline Serafine - Posted July 2 2023 - 6:05 AM

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It's most likely from some pest control business site. And to be honest, i've seen worse.

 


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We should respect all forms of consciousness. The body is just a vessel, a mere hull.

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#12 Offline bmb1bee - Posted July 2 2023 - 8:05 AM

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Pest control needs to be better educated on ants and other insects they deal with. Honestly.


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#13 Offline AntsTopia - Posted July 2 2023 - 1:49 PM

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Tell me if I’m wrong but I think they used a carebara diversa worker pic and a weaver ant pic. 


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#14 Offline antsriondel - Posted July 2 2023 - 1:51 PM

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It is a Carebara major but the "Male" is an Atta worker, not a Weaver ant. 


#15 Offline AntsTopia - Posted July 2 2023 - 2:02 PM

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I stand corrected. 
(Quietly in the background “damm it”)


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Keeper of:

 

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Ants are just better.

#16 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted July 2 2023 - 2:34 PM

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I can't bring myself to dignify that link by clicking on it, but oh my gooooshhhhhhhh that and the other picture :lol: :lol: :lol:  :facepalm:  And I shot over the emoticon limit so here are only 4.


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#17 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted July 3 2023 - 4:27 PM

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It's most likely from some pest control business site. And to be honest, i've seen worse.

:wtf:


Interested buying in ants? Feel free to check out my shop! 

Feel free to read my journals, like this one.

 

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Atta sp (wish they were in CA), Crematogaster cerasi, Most Pheidole species

 

 

#18 Offline antperson24 - Posted July 11 2023 - 5:09 AM

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This thread just destroyed 98% of my brain cells. 


 Why keep ants that aren't found in your yard?

There are so many fascinating ants right were you live!

I disagree with the keeping/buying of ants that are not found in your area.

 

#19 Offline Serafine - Posted July 21 2023 - 4:23 AM

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Prepare to lose more.

 

Someone in the aak discord came up with this absolute gem.

 

 

 

Ah yes, Campolasius hercuniger, the dreaded wood-eating black garden carpenter ant and its trophobiotic symbiont, the drywood-sucking aphid Incistisiphon floyderi.

 

Not sure what "white ants" the article is talking about though. I guess they're referring to termites, but confusing wingless wasps and wingless roaches is like referring to a kangoroo as a mammal.

Also i'm not aware of a single termite species tending to aphids.

 

Oh, and for good measure - there are no Camponotus species in the UK.


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#20 Offline DevinTheAntKeeper - Posted July 21 2023 - 6:11 AM

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Sometimes people need to know more info before they make fun of themselves online.


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