Giant mutant ant colony found in Australia (1 Viewer)

[Wavioli]

also cause damage to crops, lawns and electrical equipment

JESUS! electrical equipment? how... why...

do they just always spill their coffee on it when theyre around or what?

 

[oh shit]

JESUS! electrical equipment? how... why...

do they just always spill their coffee on it when theyre around or what?

they divert power lines to their giant underground labs where they are growing giant warrior ants.

anyone ever read 'surely you're joking, mr feynman?'

amongst other things, he figured out how ants walk in line. very interesting.

 

[steve albino]

And there I was thinking one of that fucker was bad enough...

The Adaptive Evolution of Ants
Picnickers are very familiar with ants. It seems that within 20 minutes or less after sitting down to a snack in virtually any city park around the world, these insects begin to swarm one’s blanket with ever-greater numbers. It has been estimated that ants represent a far greater proportion of the biomass in New York’s Central Park than do humans. In fact, ants alone constitute more than 20 percent of the terrestrial biomass in Brazil’s amazon rainforests, a region famous for its incredible diversity of life (Wilson 1978, p.13).

Ants don’t just affect humans. Red Imported Fire Ant, Solonopsis invicta, first was introduced to the United States in about 1929 at Mobile, Alabama. This species has since spread north to Tennessee, west to Texas, and East to Florida and the Carolinas (Vinson 1997). In the process, nearly all other species of native ants have been driven away (Morris 1993). These ants have become the dominant predators of invertebrates in areas in which they are entrenched, and significantly lower species diversity. They have also been known to attack turtles, chameleons, snakes, newborn birds, and small mammals (Vinson 1997). Water-bird nesting success has been reported to be down 34% in areas infested with S. invicta (Dickinson 1995).

Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are one of the most dominant families of organisms on the planet. How did ants evolve? Why, from an evolutionary point of view, do worker and soldier ants give their lives to protect the colony and its queen(s)? Do individuals of other social species behave in a similar way for similar reasons?


http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~jm703496/es-antevln.html

 

[snakybus]

yeah that Feynman book is great, film not so good (Matthew Broderick)

 

[Wavioli]

Everything I know about ants I learnt from this:

Had a massive book about ants with it too, as I recall.

 

[Cormcolash]

The shape of things to come??

Hahaha, that's exactly what I thought of when I saw this thread!

 

[guy of the tiger]

 

[Wavioli]

Hahaha, that's exactly what I thought of when I saw this thread!

great film, by the way.

 

[oh shit]

yeah that Feynman book is great, film not so good (Matthew Broderick)

no way! i didnt know there was a movie. sounds crap. i'll add this to my list of book adaptations that i never want to see, along with Manufacturing Consent and Heart Of Darkness (with ray liotta- wtf... shudder)

 

[avernus]

Australia is just too damn uninhabitable. killer spiders, mutant (killer) ants, killer snakes, mutant killer snakes, dingos, sharks, crocs.

oh yeah and the heat.

 

[oh shit]

Australia is just too damn uninhabitable. killer spiders, mutant (killer) ants, killer snakes, mutant killer snakes, dingos, sharks, crocs.

oh yeah and the heat.

yeah i was bitten by a white tail spider while workin in sydney. luckily it was a wee baby one, otherwise a large part of my arm would have basically rotted into this weird white scar tissue!

 

[veryslowey]

forget ants - alsations are our future

 

[veryslowey]

 

[veryslowey]

 

[Wavioli]

Man, theres a thread specifically for this kind of carry-on!

Ye try and do someone a favour

 

[Napalm]

Woof Woof Bark

 

[veryslowey]

Man, theres a thread specifically for this kind of carry-on!

Ye try and do someone a favour

I know and i'm sorry - but i feel very strongly about the relavance of alsations in this particular topic

 

[Wavioli]

I know and i'm sorry - but i feel very strongly about the relavance of alsations in this particular topic

and every other topic by the looks of it

 

[veryslowey]

 

[dislexik_pnuk]

heres one for slowey