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(DIR) Post #AhIjqIdEJHTAPkwLNg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-27T03:41:29Z
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New outworld is cleaned and landscaped for my Camponotus nicobarensis. I’m going to add some “leaf litter” I would try isopods or springtails… but the girls are so excited to murder— let’s see if they destroy the moss tufts first. They are also going to put the black dirt all over the place— but that’s the ant way.
(DIR) Post #AhIloMW95kZlnLpY2a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-27T04:03:33Z
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With some terrarium and aquarium pet you can "landscape" your little slice of nature. Provide nice things for you pets and make it look nice. This is not the case with ants. Ants change whatever environment you give them. If there is soil, they move it and build things, same with plant material. This is the effect of keeping a colony in a small area. Ants are into terraforming. They look at your moss garden and say "we can make this better"And "better" is a glimpse into the ant mind.
(DIR) Post #AhImlbttXd0OaeBsUy by beans_please@mastodon.social
2024-04-27T04:14:11Z
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@futurebird little Roman legions just wanting to create their ideal camp no matter where they're plopped down
(DIR) Post #AhIniYJmVKr4Z4P99M by msbellows@c.im
2024-04-27T04:24:50Z
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@futurebird Look, I'm a married man. Stop trying to make me horny.
(DIR) Post #AhJ0b5eVyzoz2LsHXU by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-04-27T06:49:05Z
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@futurebird Considering how many square meters a wild colony can control, this outworld simply doesn't stand a chance.
(DIR) Post #AhJAq1OL6dTFhv4DhI by Tooden@aus.social
2024-04-27T08:43:53Z
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@futurebird Better for them😉
(DIR) Post #AhJyzuO4s3wYdNVkwa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-27T18:06:01Z
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They are such little twerps look how they have ruined it. LMAO.
(DIR) Post #AhJzGwvweoUVSDTiLI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-27T18:09:04Z
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Yes. Every ant is a twerp. They can't help it.
(DIR) Post #AhJzfSJXdWvfjHCVVo by pmonks@sfba.social
2024-04-27T18:13:28Z
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@futurebird Does that mean you’re a twerpetologist? 🤔
(DIR) Post #AhK01k2ePGZv55vX3Q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-27T18:17:33Z
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This colony love to build with wet sand and soil. So, I kind of knew this might happen. This is what they made a few months ago when I gave them wet sand.
(DIR) Post #AhK7QAak2the3MT59c by Ppampolim@mastodon.social
2024-04-27T19:40:23Z
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@futurebird Almost like a sea coral :)
(DIR) Post #AhK7ZwewhT8ljt5zqC by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-04-27T19:42:09Z
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@futurebird i want to create a field guide to ant species by their sand art. introduce a bunch of ants you want to key out into a petri dish of wet sand, key out the pattern they make. no dissecting scope and freezing the ants necessary! @alexwild
(DIR) Post #AhK7iONhVyhK293ci8 by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-04-27T19:43:21Z
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@futurebird good for them.reminds me once i had a snake in a terrarium i made. was cool.after the snake was gone... i put a mouse in ther. within a day it was completely dug up.
(DIR) Post #AhK9cQWEqzkqpnKm0m by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-04-27T20:04:54Z
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@futurebird Sometimes I wonder if some fossil coral is in fact a fossilized ant nest.
(DIR) Post #AhK9lBdnXVRVIU2ygK by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-04-27T20:06:33Z
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@futurebird They even named a city after that.
(DIR) Post #AhLpE4yAWtS4uQQx16 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-04-28T15:25:57Z
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They are messy but seem very happy. The have made all sorts of little hiding spots.
(DIR) Post #AhMXXXlY5LBdhlceNk by coprolite9000@mastodon.me.uk
2024-04-28T23:42:27Z
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@futurebird Description of it as an 'outworld' has me imagine the ants' nest as a starship on a grand voyage of exploration through the cosmos - with the ants discovering a new planet and immediately going "Prime Directive? what? lol" and gleefully, carefully terraforming the place in their image before moving on.(I'm now expecting there to be actual, uninhabited exoplanets out there with extensive ant-like improvements...)
(DIR) Post #AhMdkVVAPk1yAjWaYa by pdkoenig@mstdn.social
2024-04-29T00:49:51Z
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@coprolite9000 @futurebird I already have terrifying visions of a planet inhabited by cat-sized intelligent ants ready to venture out into the stars from following @futurebird …