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"In the end, only kindness matters," this birdhouse when I first met it back in January, before I relocated it to my yard.
And read more about the fascinating rafting behavior of red fire ants!
Here's someone else's video of an impressive ant bridge across water. Please ignore the terrible music.
The book I'm reading is this fascinating anthology (ant-thology???) about insects.
And finally, here I get eaten by army ants in Nigeria. [fade to image of skeleton being crawled over by ants]
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Date: 2014-06-16 07:37 pm (UTC)Ants are also interesting! I had read somebody's user info wrong and thought it said, "Myrmecology" when it said "Mycology."
Did you know that ants fall over on their right sides when they are drunk?
I would like to know who pays for those studies, but it is interesting to know.
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Date: 2014-06-17 04:39 am (UTC)(when the giant ants come I will get them drunk and dodge to their left!)
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Date: 2014-06-17 05:11 am (UTC)Or, maybe that's "Yay! You are feeding ideas to the writer!"
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Date: 2014-06-22 02:58 am (UTC)I've had first-hand experience with fire ants balling up in water and forming rafts. I grew up in Florida, right on a river, and went walking during a flood one time. That... was not my smartest move. One of those fire and balls and I collided (in my defense, I tried to get out of the way! But there were currents and I was clumsy) and ohhhhhh ouch.
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Date: 2014-06-22 04:21 am (UTC)And yes, I try to move more like a plant, less like an animal. (: And try not to breath on them -- they can sense carbon dioxide and know it somes from animals.
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Date: 2014-06-23 04:56 am (UTC)Unless you have insect/spider-phobia, and the feeling of little legs on you freaks you out. o_O
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