Post AiVB57xcNd1d2Uwro0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
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 (DIR) Post #AiVB57xcNd1d2Uwro0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-06-02T01:35:21Z
       
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       The sheer ambition of this tiny Camponotus discolor minor who I followed after she escaped... to the enclosure of the dubias. They are 30 times her size. She is alone, can't get back to her nest. Nonetheless she tries to chew her way into the the dubia enclosure, biting the metal screen. So she can "get" them.I've said it would be like if a person hung around a cattle yard with a knife in one hand. a fork in the other licking their chops... but it's more like doing that for IDK some sauropods?
       
 (DIR) Post #AiVBExTwC7jdR5kmES by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-06-02T01:37:08Z
       
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       She is really really desperate to find a way in to where she knows simple herbivores (yummy, to her) giant bugs live.  I almost want to let her in to see what she'd do. But instead I've returned her to her nest. She's running around getting all her sisters excited. I'd better freeze one of the "sauropods" and feed them... this is getting... chaotic.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiVBMj57cOHT5hqlTE by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-06-02T01:38:32Z
       
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       I guess that's another reason why ants are so daunting for their neighbors. You might meet a tiny one, a harmless one, but she thinks of herself as part of a much larger and more powerful organism and is scouting and making plans for you accordingly.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiVBrz8fy2eJrwPy4W by duncan_bayne@emacs.ch
       2024-06-02T01:44:09Z
       
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       @futurebird "Don't talk to Corp Dev" 🤣
       
 (DIR) Post #AiVCCpky2uxkqqGn8C by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-06-02T01:47:57Z
       
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       This all reminds me of an excellent blog post I read about an army ant raid (Neivamyrmex nigrescens) passing a nest of the much larger Novomessor cockerelli-- Any army ant that got to close had to be killed, and quickly so she couldn't alert the column to the location of the nest. There are a lot of amazing posts on this blog about ants with excellent photos:https://tightloop.com/blog/2020/12/29/neivamyrmex-nigrescens-army-ant/
       
 (DIR) Post #AiVDDrpLvsXHW8NTX6 by Jon_Kramer@mastodon.social
       2024-06-02T01:59:19Z
       
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       @futurebird The eyes being so different between species is interesting. I guess if you are a hunter pack, the energy drain of eyes just isn't good for survival.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiVrfilbD2BhgvSUBk by justafrog@mstdn.social
       2024-06-02T09:32:31Z
       
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       @futurebird Getting swarmed is absolutely terrifying.Imagine getting overwhelmed by a horde of three year olds.One clings to a leg, and while you're trying to get free, another one clamps onto another limb and so on, until you're completely immobilized.Maybe you shake off one, now and then. But they keep clamping on.You know it's hopeless, because they are many and you are not.One vs one you'd always win, but one vs 50? No way.And then one of them starts chewing.