#cw ants

[curioscurio]

@ California mutuals: If it hasn't already been said: Try not to walk in flood water. If a power line is down its a perfect recipie for getting electrocuted. Its likely also dirty and full of sewage. Sometimes theres no choice, so if you DO end up walking in flood water, beware: if you see a patch or raft of brown like this, it's fire ants. They all climb on each other to form a raft and it's TERRIFYING (and cool to watch. ) Yes those are ALL fire ants.

[orbitalbeetle]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[envy-stims]

🎋 • 🌧️ • 🐜 • 🎒 • 🌿

“How it feels to be a sad ant with a bindle”

sad ant with bindle stimboard

[dreamy-n0mad]

Requested stimboard : An ant stimboard with themes of honey/gold colors for @cotta-therian !!

( A single ant can carry 50 times its own bodyweight )

[arconinternet]

Ant and Bee and the ABC (Book, Angela Banner & Bryan Ward, 1966 (1977 edition))

You can digitally borrow it here.

[talekinesis]

I cut up some blueberries for the robins in my yard because I really enjoy watching them (of course I washed them first, no pesticides for my birds)

But while they haven't taken them yet, some of the bugs have

this the larva of an Asian Lady Beetle

They look like ladybugs but they're not, they're orange and they have big white cheeks, and they bite

They're invasive, but it's our fault, we purposely introduced them to try and control the aphid population, but now it's having a detrimental effect on the ladybug numbers

The differences:

The others that found the blueberries are ants

CW for Ants

Because everytime I ask if someone is okay to look at bugs, they usually say "Yes but not ants"

Look at them go, gathering food to feed their sisters

This is a bit away from my back door, so I highly doubt they'll come in, and even if they do, I know various ways to deter them to keep them out, like with a citrus spray (they hate citrus)

But I get really excited when I see bugs just doing bug things

Entomology is like one of my biggest special interests

[windmills123]

my ant is SCARY!

[goodmode]

how many ants do you have with you right now

some

[prism2674]

[trlvsn]

ace attorney character named Andy Terr who is a helpful witness and a completely normal person except every once in a while he pulls out an ant out of his pocket and eats it in one bite

[etirabys]

I was pretty anhedonic / unpleasantly sleepy today but got a mood turnaround on 10mg of weed followed by right arrowing pictures of ants in google image search results & talking to CJ, who has a special interest in ants. Sometimes he spontaneously volunteered fascinating information, other times I googled something and discussed the answer.

// ant facts ahead, don't read if you are squicked by bugs / bug-eating

Most ants have three barely-eyes in a triangle on their forehead between their full eyes. The queens chew/tear off their own wings when done with their mating flight. They clean their antenna with their... either legs or mandibles? Combination legs and mandibles? Honeypot ants hold most of their body mass in the form of 'ant honey / honeydew' and serve as living larders for the colony. They can still walk around because of physical scaling laws. Some Australian people eat them like berries – apparently they taste amazing.

I am happy.

[cheesewheel0]

woah, r/196 effectively shut down huh? time is a flat god damn circle.

[heartless-aro]

sorry to the people who have sent me asks btw. i’m going to answer as soon as i can but my brain is made of static and ants (🐜) right now so i gotta get tech support to deal with that first before i can be all coherent about stuff

[chrysomaline]

♥️♥️♥️ got me and my boyfriend vintage matching ants bc we are lovebugs ♥️♥️♥️

[arconinternet]

Ant Hill Volumes 1 & 2 (DOS, Chris Busch, 1991)

You can play them in your browser here and here.

[idleincrementalgamer]

I've been checking out Idle Ant Farm this week. It's got a lot o potential so I'd love to see more people playing it so it gets more updates. I'm always a fan of these kind of swarm games (despite a deep fear of bugs, never pushing that "see the ant farm" button) and this looks like it could do some really cool stuff in the future