Post ApmElYLsr236YPebYW by kritischelezer@mastodon.social
(DIR) More posts by kritischelezer@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ApmB4rgAowMiBL668u by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-05T15:30:07Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Someone is being wrong about ants on the internet and I'm gonna find them and I will Sort Them Out.
(DIR) Post #ApmB9kuVPkrodX8K36 by grrrr_shark@supervolcano.angryshark.eu
2025-01-05T15:30:42Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I support you in this worthy quest.
(DIR) Post #ApmBK11aMCQjVfKxNo by Crow@pagan.plus
2025-01-05T15:32:48Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird yes! Be the ants at their picnic! :p
(DIR) Post #ApmCE36JpAPGAMGn4a by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-01-05T15:42:58Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird May we please have an origin story? What is the life path that led you to becoming such an impressive myrmecologist?
(DIR) Post #ApmCY4BBWYgBIp5hS4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-05T15:46:25Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@hal_pomeranz God I wish I knew. I started reading about ants about 6 years ago or so. I've always gotten deeply interested in the most random of topics. The thing about ants is the more you find out about them, the more there is to learn.I guess I wanted to have more of a connection to nature, being a VERY urban person who mostly thinks about math and other abstract topics all of the time. Ants live in cities they seemed like the most friendly creatures.
(DIR) Post #ApmDJykJ1rUkLoMgXA by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-01-05T15:55:11Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird Awww, I was hoping for something like a line of ants leading you out of a burning tenement as a child, revealing that you were their chosen one.
(DIR) Post #ApmDmedirWgYOGxX7Y by jrbee@wandering.shop
2025-01-05T16:00:20Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@futurebird @hal_pomeranz Ah good! Fellow ant lover! I don't know when that made for an instant follow for me, but I suspect always.Can I take this opportunity to ask about your favourite ant fact?
(DIR) Post #ApmDzBNGyuCtOGErr6 by hendric@astronomy.city
2025-01-05T16:02:40Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird "uhoh buddy, the queen has ordered you picked up and thrown in the refuse pile!"
(DIR) Post #ApmE1VcqeuECmGdL7o by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-05T16:02:51Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@jrbee @hal_pomeranz This is an impossible question. I'm always finding a new one. But, the one that got me interested in ants is that some queens can live to be 30 years old! The same queen, in the same ant nest laying eggs and raising daughters for 30 years. It's remarkable. Do you have a favorite ant fact?
(DIR) Post #ApmElYLsr236YPebYW by kritischelezer@mastodon.social
2025-01-05T16:11:25Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird Ants only eat honey, right? There you go. Now you can take the rest of the day off, you're welcome.
(DIR) Post #ApmEsuHNj9OYaV3Rqa by jrbee@wandering.shop
2025-01-05T16:09:28Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @hal_pomeranz 30 years is pretty darn remarkable.My favourite fact is technically a butterfly fact. But there's a species of butterfly (endangered) called - imaginatively, The Large Blue Butterfly. Through mimicry of smell, sound, and even by twisting its larvae body to look like ant larvae, will trick its specific species of ant into carrying it into its nest where, if it survives, it will eat the largest ant larvae, and the ants will just look after it.
(DIR) Post #ApmFSAVTO1Y93ESZIu by aliceonboard@sfba.social
2025-01-05T16:19:07Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @jrbee @hal_pomeranz no facts, but as I was reading your post, an ant found it's way onto my phone screen and casually walked over your words. Kinda funny.
(DIR) Post #ApmFuuVPxML3p68gca by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-01-05T16:24:17Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @jrbee @hal_pomeranz No, but if I follow you for long enough, I suspect I'll get one at some point.
(DIR) Post #ApmGHdKpxk4vEJ1dFQ by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-01-05T16:28:22Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @jrbee @hal_pomeranz I think mine was when I learned some ants farm. Blew my mind. But perhaps it's only a close second to one of my favourite people on Mastodon being a myrmecologist
(DIR) Post #ApmHNVG30SZDs19E00 by dys_morphia@sfba.social
2025-01-05T16:40:40Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird that’s amazing. I had no idea they lived that long. My favorite ant fact is one I discovered personally by looking at ants when I was out hiking the first time I took magic mushrooms (about 20 years ago). I saw a large colony of ants on a dry hillside in Angel Island, CA. I started paying more attention to them then I usually did. And I noticed that there were ants of different sizes all working together. I had previously somehow assumed that if ants are a different size they must be a different species. I realized they must vary in size. I also realized the whole hillside was just one group of ants working together! Then I started to wonder, could it be that the colony spanned the entire island? I don’t know the answer the last one. But simply pausing to observe closely with a fresh attitude taught me something new, which I confirmed for mysef on later visits.
(DIR) Post #ApmLgSO8IcLiHzDsxM by bkahn@beige.party
2025-01-05T17:28:54Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@futurebird @jrbee @hal_pomeranz I have an ant question: How well do and will ants cope with cllimate changes? I read that ants arose 140-168 million years ago which suggests that they have already made it through plenty of differing climates. (Although changes are high speed compared to past ones.) My guess is that in general they will outlast humans by at least another 100 million years given their diversity. What do you folks think?
(DIR) Post #ApmMTO2lF20H0IYerw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-05T17:37:48Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@bkahn @jrbee @hal_pomeranz Ants have vast diversity and global coverage except for the very coldest places. So as a family they will last a long time. Only something going wrong with flowing plants, or a global freeze would represent a broad threat to the family. That said we are losing so many species of ants from niche habitats, undisturbed forests and deserts, as is happening with all insects.
(DIR) Post #App4C0qn0JnYRqP6aO by epicanis@akkoma.dogphilosophy.net
2025-01-07T00:52:47.688441Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@futurebird I'm disappointed to realize that you are referring to someone (on the internet) being wrong about ants, not someone being wrong about (ants on the internet). I was so hoping for digital ants, perhaps burrowed into a webserver, quietly crawling over TCP/IP to cut buts of other websites' text out to bring back to their colony to feed their digital larvae.
(DIR) Post #App4DeVN3TGvixARMW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-07T00:57:26Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@epicanis You know? I want that so badly too now!
(DIR) Post #Apxu3sdjudqiKtFXSy by TonyVladusich@mathstodon.xyz
2025-01-11T07:15:51Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @jrbee @hal_pomeranz I just got bitten by a bull ant and it hurts. That’s an ant fact!I did my PhD in honeybee navigation and learned a lot about ants in the process.Here’s an interesting fact: ants navigate by celestial compass but also local landmarks. For instance, ants will learn that a wall is always in their right in the way to a food source and navigate to keep the wall to the right even in unfamiliar terrain.
(DIR) Post #Apy4mzTyJnL888pVs8 by RobJLow@mathstodon.xyz
2025-01-11T09:16:08Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @hal_pomeranz Apparently giant ants mine gold in India. I read this in a book, so it must be true.
(DIR) Post #Apy4upU7NCEHRKdUZc by RobJLow@mathstodon.xyz
2025-01-11T09:17:36Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@futurebird Apparently giant ants mine gold in India. I read this in a book, so it must be true.
(DIR) Post #ApyJSFZUnqCdGEyw9g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-11T12:00:31Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@kavana @RobJLow It's a pretty famous old myth about ants. Not true at all sadly.
(DIR) Post #ApyJfGgTyeISTbSPaK by temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe
2025-01-11T12:02:50Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @kavana @RobJLow Wasn’t it a mistranslation of some kind of tibetan marmots?
(DIR) Post #ApyLWZkDwS6GtRBqRk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-11T12:23:43Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Always on the look out for misANTformation
(DIR) Post #ApyMcwnJFwJA4YEfHE by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-01-11T12:36:04Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird is this false information about ants ("fun fact: all ants suffer from seasonal depression"), or pro-ant.propaganda ("all human accomplishments, including Stonehenge and nuclear fission, would have been impossible without the contributions of ants")?
(DIR) Post #ApyMhU69NJLOWMDB9k by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-11T12:36:54Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@guyjantic "all human accomplishments, including Stonehenge and nuclear fission, would have been impossible without the contributions of ants"But... this one is true isn't it? If you really search your soul you will see the truth.
(DIR) Post #ApybiJhT1F3nsEWN7I by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-01-11T15:25:00Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird Someone recently said you were "not an easy follow." That person was objectively wrong, as evidenced by highly rational posts like this.