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(DIR) Post #AjRwocXRzLCevzXV3Y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-30T10:03:24Z
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Everyone should have a pet ant colony because when you wake up in the morning you can look in on them and they are all always so busy trying their best to organize their little world. It's very inspiring how they are always so excited to make little piles sorting all of the objects in their space. The carpenter ants decided to move their main trash pile a few days ago and they are just completing the project this morning. All of the debris are neatly piled in corner for me to collect.
(DIR) Post #AjRwyqlXwjBrxJ0i36 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-30T10:05:19Z
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I still maintain that it ought to be possible to domesticate ants that would help you keep your electronics lab clean. They would be so good at sorting parts into little bins. I don't know if they could sort used resistors by the band value, but they could separate the resistors from the LEDs and logic ICs.
(DIR) Post #AjRxFrPMoNJMs1kORs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-30T10:08:19Z
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@arichtman If your keyboard is full of "snacks" (how did that happen?) this should not be a problem.
(DIR) Post #AjS1FK0jNj9B6hDrgu by Beedazzled@mastodon.green
2024-06-30T10:52:59Z
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@futurebird some people do not believe animals can think ahead or forward plan and yet your colony decided to do this and communicated that across the team. And they are 'just' ants
(DIR) Post #AjS1Qi40IJG2tIBRoG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-30T10:55:04Z
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@maggiejk If you can put the rock back without crushing them that would be best. (it drive me nuts when people lift a rock and put it back down without thinking.) But really ants are good at moving house. They will simply move under a new rock, or under the same rock if it is in a new location. So, don't worry too much. They are adapted to living in a world that can change suddenly in titanic ways. And their haste and panic are how they survive.
(DIR) Post #AjS2B6HEbMi5JAUcim by ollicle@mastodon.social
2024-06-30T11:03:23Z
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@futurebird I need some really big ants that can handle Lego. How’s their colour perception?
(DIR) Post #AjSFmBoCISagaCvWdM by marjon@a11y.info
2024-06-30T13:35:52Z
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@futurebird Adrian Tchaikovsky explores that idea in his book Children of Time.
(DIR) Post #AjSdQ372LVkU8piMDo by moelassus@mastodon.social
2024-06-30T18:00:48Z
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@futurebird do you have a recommended container for keeping an any colony?
(DIR) Post #AjWCn9O9G2bI8WLhCK by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2024-07-02T11:21:09Z
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@futurebird How about mice?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67902966
(DIR) Post #AsNIwrdAeXpkgq1ccy by gerbrand@fosstodon.org
2024-06-30T19:35:18Z
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@ollicle @futurebird Ants are blind, but maybe we could mark bricks with different pheromones.
(DIR) Post #AsNIwsjwWqqS88CXp2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-24T09:06:49Z
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@gerbrand @ollicle Some ants have poor vision, some are blind, but many ants can see color and would be able to sort lego. Ollie has identified the biggest problem: for ants most lego are too big and heavy to move easily. But there are very large ants such as bulls ants (which also have excellent vision) and the Giant Forest Ant who would be well-suited to this task. Likewise ant teamwork could also help out with the lego sorting problem.