#ant

[waackery]

Office bugs!!! Story by my classmate @shiru_art on insta, character design by me

[sporksauce-inc]

🐜

[silkwhim]

this is real fashion

[hardwarelecampane]

!!!!

“does it even do anything for the env-“ shut up

who are you, santa clause? no little thing should have to justify its right to be alive.

it lives, and therefore it is worthy.

[futurebird]

Are Humans Self-Aware?

Ants have often tested humans for self awareness. They placed objects in our homes and were shocked we didn't cover them in sand.

"Although humans build interesting nests & show signs of cooperation, can they really have rich inner lives like ants? Unlikely."

They laid pheromone trails & we ignored them.

"Even a newly eclosed callow or a termite could have followed these trails! Human intelligence is perhaps similar to that of a lichen... or perhaps an aphid at best."

[donutdrawsthings]

I don't think it should be weird, for me to put a fruit fly outside

[sleepyseaslug]

This is what’s in my head instead of a brain, btw.

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Hungry bugs

(Want these bugs on a shirt?) | Inprnt

[spiny-ant]

Could you please do a Bulldog Ant stimboard but with the most aggressive, batshit insane, stupid stims possible? I'm thinking glass getting shattered, dogs biting at the screen, all that

I've done bulldog ant before but this was too fucking funny to not do 😭

💣-💣-💣|💣-🐜-💣|💣-💣-💣

[onenicebugperday]

Acorn weevil (Curculio sp.) pestered by a winged ant

Photographed in France by Bernard DuPont

[plusie]

[colorpicked-pride-flags]

The TRANS flag color-picked from SAD ANT WITH BINDLE

[cupcakeshakesnake]

What if there was a kid stomping on an anthill and the ants built a kid-sized mecha to fight him

[crevicedwelling]

ants were farming other animals long before humans figured it out! here is a Cautolasius herdswoman with her livestock

many subterranean Lasius species cultivate flocks of plump root aphids, guarding them against predators and moving them to safe locations and fresh pastures. they “milk” the aphids for honeydew, a sugary waste product of the aphids’ digestion. I’ve read the ants will only kill and eat their livestock in times of famine.

when I flipped their rock, this ant grabbed the nearest aphid and ran it to safety. she’s another species of Lasius, this one in the subgenus Chthonolasius; I can’t tell if her colony’s aphids are different from the Cautolasius’ though.

[ratbugs]

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