#for ants

[corruptimles]

hey where'd they get that

[futurebird]

I think if you grew up in the midwest and baptist it was mandatory that you had a weird uncle with one of those plaques with the "footprints" story ... This story always felt like a forwarded email ... before emails existed. The whole ending "no that's when I carried you" has a "but who was phone?" quality that ... I guess I can't resist.

At the end of her life an ant saw a shoreline representing her life. along it 12 footprints for the ant-christ walked beside her. But, in the worst parts of her life there were only 6! "Why did you abandon me O ant-christ in my hour of need?" "Abandon you, Sister? No, that is when I carried you."

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[kasperl-ruprecht]

These were the best possible photos I could get today of the eclipse here in Wisconsin with my cellphone camera and one of those flimsy eclipse glasses.

[myrfing]

imagine if your boyfriend was like I can smell an ant. and started tracking

[dasloddl]

ID in alt

we get it, it’s beans ON toast and ants would eat that, also we get it, ants aren’t that loyal to their queen, they kill her off if she’s out of line

[julianplum]

🍄 🍁 🐌 🐜 🪳✨ // Omphalotus illudens, the bioluminescent jack o' lantern mushroom // gouache on paper

[decamarks]

Thinking of becoming a guy that thinks wolves are the most badass and aspirational animal, but about ants. Like wearing t-shirts about being loyal to my Queen and training to bench 5x my bodyweight. Studying ant warfare. Posting shit like this

[donutdrawsthings]

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

[mansand]

these army ants tend to move in groups of 4, with the line leader leading the expeditions. They have terrible eyesight, so rely on the sound of the Line Leader's bell staff, and the the pheromone map made by the previous expedition to know where they're heading.

[oddarette]

Lil’ Sprinkle Ants 🩷🐜⭐️🐜🩵🐜

[pangur-and-grim]

Grim and Belphegor had an illegal meeting, so I'm allowing them to legally meet

[corruptimles]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[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."

[mapsontheweb]

The world by the presence or absence of ants in the wild

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