I hate ants not because of their looks, it's because they're fucking everywhere. Can't leave a glass with a little soda in a table cause motherfuckers start climbing the goddamn glass.
[QUOTE=Araknid;32581749][img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/109034174_ba73172b7e.jpg[/img]
You see this motherfucker?
Thats an Australian Bull Ant.
They can grow up to 40mm (1.6 inches). At a minimum, 15mm (0.59 inches).
Their stings hurt like a motherfucker. They will follow any fucker who intrudes their area.
Now imagine a whole colony of them.
Australia, we dont only have giant spiders, but giant ants too. :v:[/QUOTE]
I remember as a kid, we used to try destroy the entire colonies of bull ants that lived in rotting trees. Didn't get bitten all that much from them.
[QUOTE=bobsmit;32581998]Holy dicking fuck kill it with fire.
Gas them, gas them all.[/QUOTE]
Ending those statements in periods led me to reading that in a completely calm, relaxed voice without any hint of danger.
For once I'm glad I live here. This country may have some of the most deadly insects and arachnids, but at least they aren't [I]all[/I] in my house. I'd just die if a swarm of ants rolled in.
we must combat them with magnifying glasses
[QUOTE=gangstadiddle;32583817]we must combat them with magnifying glasses[/QUOTE]
Lasers!
Texas get's a shit fuck of ants because the port of Houston imports tons of shit every hour. Foreign ants find their way onto vessels and decide to declare Texas their new home in the name of the Queen then fuck it all to hell. Pretty sure invasive ant's have made entire species extinct here. They destroy electronics all the time too. I remember once dad who was working at the Sea Port at the time was really busy because invasive ants totally fucked one of Customs x-ray machines.
Fuck ants.
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;32580814]I've never heard of spiders wreaking wide-spread disruption of electrical systems like ants do.[/QUOTE]
What about the 60 foot tall spiders in Australia?
I'm itchy now.
I'm glad the only ants I get are black ants and red ones, but not the red ones that sting like a bitch, the ones that you can just shrug off as nothing more than "something's itchy" for 2 seconds.
On a side note I love watching colonies of ants fighting each others, when the battle's over I always bestow the winning colony a sugar block or two and feel like I'm playing Black & White IRL.
[QUOTE=Bragdras;32584678]
On a side note I love watching colonies of ants fighting each others, when the battle's over I always bestow the winning colony a sugar block or two and feel like I'm playing Black & White IRL.[/QUOTE]
do you by any chance have autism
Fuck the South, I'm glad I live in Indiana where all we have is squirrels and deer and shit.
Kill them.
[b]WITH FIRE[/b]
Oh fuck manly spiders are invading texas
next thing you know we have roving gangs of ant bikers
[QUOTE=skynrdfan3;32584806]do you by any chance have autism[/QUOTE]
Most certainly
[QUOTE=person11;32582800][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Paraponera_clavata.jpg[/img]
BULLET ANT. ENOUGH SAID.[/QUOTE]
Arent these things called bullet ant because people say it's as painful as being shot?
Edit:
OH MY GOD
[video=youtube;9WQ6rFKhyn0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQ6rFKhyn0&feature=related[/video]
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;32580444]You should see some of the ants in Australia.
Some of them aren't even ants anymore, they're more like giant beetles.[/QUOTE]
It's a well-known fact that everything in Australia is at least twice as huge and harbors a deadly hatred for you.
I'm a bit of an entomologist and I've studied social insects such as ants for quite some time- after that, they don't seem so bad, and seem so much more than annoying creatures that run into your house.
It could be worse though- you could be dealing with Pheidologeton diversus. The smallest workers are the most aggressive, and ride on the backs of their soldier castes and queens. You wouldn't be able to see a queen since the workers run towards her and present her foe with a huge mass of biting ants.
The soldiers on the other hand, are capable of drawing blood with a bite.
[img]http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~locutus/p.d2.jpg[/img]
Some are more invasive than others I suppose.
[QUOTE=Niklas;32587432]Arent these things called bullet ant because people say it's as painful as being shot?
Edit:
OH MY GOD
[video=youtube;9WQ6rFKhyn0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQ6rFKhyn0&feature=related[/video][/QUOTE]
Yes, the pain lasts for 24 hours and is supposed to hurt as much as a bullet wound. There are certain tribes in the area who use the ants in a rite of passage- the boy has to wear a glove of leaves with the ants woven into it, and go for about 20 minutes as the ants sting him.
Fun Fact: All of the common ants you see are female. The males have wings.
[QUOTE=Timenova;32587927]I'm a bit of an entomologist and I've studied social insects such as ants for quite some time- after that, they don't seem so bad, and seem so much more than annoying creatures that run into your house.
It could be worse though- you could be dealing with Pheidologeton diversus. The smallest workers are the most aggressive, and ride on the backs of their soldier castes and queens. You wouldn't be able to see a queen since the workers run towards her and present her foe with a huge mass of biting ants.
The soldiers on the other hand, are capable of drawing blood with a bite.
[img]http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~locutus/p.d2.jpg[/img]
Some are more invasive than others I suppose.
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Wait are they the ones where the soldiers bite to open up wounds and then the workers climb in and eat from the inside?
It came from red alert.
[img]http://www.animateit.net/data/media/20/ant.gif[/img]
Facepunch... then the world
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;32588334]Wait are they the ones where the soldiers bite to open up wounds and then the workers climb in and eat from the inside?[/QUOTE]
I haven't heard of these ones doing that. The soldiers rival the queen in terms of size and are actually stronger than her. Most ant soldiers have heads packed with muscle, so you wouldn't want to get bitten. The smaller workers are the more serious threat to prey since they use swarming tactics.
This is pretty much how they fight:
[video=youtube;hQ_Sn0DIrsU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ_Sn0DIrsU[/video]
But yeah, normally the workers let the soldiers weaken their prey before finishing it off.
[QUOTE=person11;32582800][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Paraponera_clavata.jpg[/img]
BULLET ANT. ENOUGH SAID.[/QUOTE]
Sure, they hurt and all. But these Crazy Ants do a LOT more damage than anything close to what the bullet ant can do.
I've seen these stupid fuckers before down here. saw a ton of dead ones near a generator i used to walk past every day. The next day twice as many had started swarming it. They are stubborn little fucks.
ANTANTATANTANTANTSSSSSSS. AUGGGGHHHHHHH! :suicide:
Mother of Fuck, but I loath ants. One of my phobias.
[quote]Kill them.
WITH FIRE[/quote]
THIS.
Also, icon is very correct.
Set up a bug zapper for them. One gets zapped, the rest jihad to their death.
Your powergrid will short out before the ant swarm ends. Bug zappers are futile!
I like ants, ants are awesome.
Spiders are awesome too, it makes me laugh when i see full grown men like my brother running from a spider.
Ridiculous.
I generally don't have a problem with ants unless they get into the cat food or the dog food. Then you have to toss out all of the food they've touched and clean out the dishes and spray ant killer everywhere, it's just an annoying process. If only I could default to hairspray and a lighter without burning the house down.
I love when ants die. If I was to be reincarnated I would wanna be reincarnated as a big ant who tears the shit out of the animal kingdom, they just seem awesome. They all work together and could take down a buffalo if they had enough ants.
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