Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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eek! No! First image is an army ant! icky icky bad!
No, no, the first image is a bullet ant. The army ants are further down. Anyway, they don't hold a candle to Africa's driver ants.
Actually, army ants can be kind of useful. If they invade your house, you get everyone out (well, obviously), and they empty the entire place of any and all vermin. And then leave. Thoughtful of them, really. You might like to go grab a latte while they're working.
Check out the video of the Japanese giant hornet.
INSECT WARS! I love that footage. Although it's a bit tragic watching all those bee corpses pile. Those Japanese giant hornets are SCA-REE!
INSECT WARS! I love that footage. Although it's a bit tragic watching all those bee corpses pile. Those Japanese giant hornets are SCA-REE!
Yeah, it's less an insect war as it is an insect massacree. Basically if the bees want to survive, they need to kill the scout that found them in the first place and stop it telling the others. And their stings can't penetrate its armour; they attack it by surrounding it and vibrating their wing muscles to generate excess heat. the bees will die at 48 degrees, but the hornet is less efficient at heat dispersal and dies at 45 degrees. The bees thus have a window of opportunity where they can cook it to death and survive.
The bees thus have a window of opportunity where they can cook it to death and survive
well that is cool. I just can't hack the ants. It wouldn't bother me so much if I hadn't just seen Indy four. I think the whole franchise is getting back at me for thinking snakes are cool and rats are cute.
Insects in general tend to squick me quite a bit, but I have a soft spot for bees.
You should have seen Sean almost leap out of my car due to a Cricket.
Ants don't bother me compared to most other insects.
And no insects bother me like arachnids bother me.
Oh gods. The cricket. Drew had a gooood laugh over that one.
well that is cool. I just can't hack the ants. It wouldn't bother me so much if I hadn't just seen Indy four. I think the whole franchise is getting back at me for thinking snakes are cool and rats are cute.
Yeah, that's all kinds of Hollywood licence there. Siafa ants are African, they don't live in Peru. And unless you're tied down or utterly paralytic, it's not really that hard for people to get out of their way.
Conversely, people who do wind up being killed by driver ants (again, more dangerous than South America's army ants) are most likely going to die by asphyxiation.
Oh! And there are army ants in the US! But they're smaller and more discreet than the South American varieties, so most people aren't aware of them.
Drew had a gooood laugh over that one.
Damn near swerved into oncoming traffic I was laughing so hard.