lspencer534
06-25-2017, 7:16pm
I was sitting on the front portico of my house when I glanced down and saw a dead Bumble Bee. It was being devoured by a colony of ants who were dutifully carrying away the body parts.
Longer inspection revealed that the worker ants...well, they're just not hard workers any longer. Two of the larger ants were stumbling about trying to carry their load of food back to the ant nest..or bed...or hill, whatever it's called. It took me a while to determine that they were even carrying a load--their loads were incredibly small.
Worker ants are supposed to be some of the marvel workers of Nature, judged from the size of the loads they can carry. Here's my image of such hard workers:
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The ones I saw today were not such ants. I hate to say it, but they were Snowflake Ants: Weak, unwilling to work, wussies...but it gets worse: Two much smaller ants stole their food from them! You heard right: Their little asses beat the "Workers" to a pulp!
On the chance that our American ants just might have been having an off day, I gave it an Interweb search. I found out that the attackers might be "Thief Ants". Thief Ants derive their name from their habit of establishing colonies close to other ants to steal their food, and even capture and eat other ants’ eggs and larvae. Vicious!
Or the killers could have been Slavemaking ants. Slavemaking Ants are helotistic, meaning they oppress another species of ants into sustaining their colony. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, helotism is defined as a system under which a nominally free social class or a religious, national, or racial minority is permanently oppressed and degraded. Ant colonies invaded by slave makers are quickly overcome and forced to support the slavemaking colony. In some species of Slavemaking Ants, the workers are strictly bred for the purpose of going out and conquering other nests. This colony cannot survive without slaves as the slavemaking Ants lack the abilities to tend to the queen, raise young and hunt for food. Experiments have shown that if Amazon Slavemakers are separated from their slave, they will starve to death even though food is made available to them.
Would you want to meet one of these ants face-to-face?:
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Oh, Holy F*uck! My neighborhood has turned into a ghetto with muggers, thieves, and a network of slave traders! I'll bet BLM and George Soros are playing a part in this.... I know the Democrats are involved.
I'm buying more guns and ammo now! Remember: Be ever vigilant. Shoot, then ask questions. Aim, fire, reload!
Longer inspection revealed that the worker ants...well, they're just not hard workers any longer. Two of the larger ants were stumbling about trying to carry their load of food back to the ant nest..or bed...or hill, whatever it's called. It took me a while to determine that they were even carrying a load--their loads were incredibly small.
Worker ants are supposed to be some of the marvel workers of Nature, judged from the size of the loads they can carry. Here's my image of such hard workers:
12162
The ones I saw today were not such ants. I hate to say it, but they were Snowflake Ants: Weak, unwilling to work, wussies...but it gets worse: Two much smaller ants stole their food from them! You heard right: Their little asses beat the "Workers" to a pulp!
On the chance that our American ants just might have been having an off day, I gave it an Interweb search. I found out that the attackers might be "Thief Ants". Thief Ants derive their name from their habit of establishing colonies close to other ants to steal their food, and even capture and eat other ants’ eggs and larvae. Vicious!
Or the killers could have been Slavemaking ants. Slavemaking Ants are helotistic, meaning they oppress another species of ants into sustaining their colony. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, helotism is defined as a system under which a nominally free social class or a religious, national, or racial minority is permanently oppressed and degraded. Ant colonies invaded by slave makers are quickly overcome and forced to support the slavemaking colony. In some species of Slavemaking Ants, the workers are strictly bred for the purpose of going out and conquering other nests. This colony cannot survive without slaves as the slavemaking Ants lack the abilities to tend to the queen, raise young and hunt for food. Experiments have shown that if Amazon Slavemakers are separated from their slave, they will starve to death even though food is made available to them.
Would you want to meet one of these ants face-to-face?:
12163
Oh, Holy F*uck! My neighborhood has turned into a ghetto with muggers, thieves, and a network of slave traders! I'll bet BLM and George Soros are playing a part in this.... I know the Democrats are involved.
I'm buying more guns and ammo now! Remember: Be ever vigilant. Shoot, then ask questions. Aim, fire, reload!